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Elected to the American Law Institute (2024)
University of Houston 50 in 5 Scholar (2022, 2018) UHLC Order of Barons Professor of the Year (2022) Fulbright-Schuman Innovation Grant (Spring 2019) German Academic Exchange Service Scholarship Recipient (2018) InterestsI enjoy traveling, running, and cooking. I am conversant (B2) in German.
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Henry J. Fletcher Professor of Law
University of Minnesota Law School
Professor Kumar is a patent scholar whose work touches on international intellectual property, public health, administrative law, and federal courts. Her most recent work, Scientific Expertise After Loper Bright (forthcoming, Duke Law Journal) focuses on the difficulties appellate judges will face interpreting ambiguous technical statutes without Chevron deference. She has recently published a book chapter and several articles about how patent rights and know-how can hinder governmental responses to public health emergencies.
Professor Kumar is the 2018-2019 Fulbright-Schuman Innovation Grant recipient, which allowed her to research the use of technically-trained patent judges at the University of Strasbourg's Center for International Intellectual Property Studies in France and at the Max-Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Germany. She spent Fall 2022 as a Visiting Scholar at the University of Copenhagen's Center for Advanced Studies in Biomedical Innovation.
Prior to joining the Minnesota Law faculty, Professor Kumar held the John Mixon Chair at the University of Houston Law Center, where she also co-directed the Institute for Intellectual Property and Information Law.
Professor Kumar received her J.D. at the University of Chicago, where she served as a staff member of the University of Chicago Law Review. She clerked for Judge Kenneth Ripple on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.