Sonia Katyal

American legal scholar

Brown University
University of Chicago Law School

Sonia Katyal is an American legal scholar, professor, and Associate Dean of Faculty Development and Research at UC Berkeley School of Law.^[1] Before coming to Berkeley, Katyal was Joseph M. McLaughlin Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law.^[2] Among other topics, her scholarship has focused on racism in consumer branding, the intersection of technology, intellectual property, and civil rights, as well as gender and sexual orientation.^[3]^[4]

Katyal received her A.B. from Brown University and her J.D. from University of Chicago Law School.^[1] Following law school, Katyal worked as an associate at Covington & Burling.^[2]

Her brother, Neal Katyal, is also a lawyer and was the former Acting Solicitor General of the United States.^[5]

Publications

Peñalver, Eduardo M.; Katyal, Sonia (February 16, 2010). Property Outlaws: How Squatters, Pirates, and Protesters Improve the Law of Ownership. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-16123-6. OCLC 841171080.^[6]

References

^ ^a ^b "Sonia Katyal". UC Berkeley School of Law. Archived from the original on August 23, 2022.
^ ^a ^b "Sonia Katyal '98 Appointed the Joseph M. McLaughlin Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law". University of Chicago Law School. Retrieved November 14, 2020.
^ Frank, Allegra (July 9, 2020). "Some brand names have long perpetuated racism. Black Lives Matter is changing that". Vox. Retrieved November 14, 2020.
^ Grossman, Sara (September 19, 2018). "Sonia Katyal appointed chair of LGBTQ Citizenship research cluster". Othering & Belonging Institute. Retrieved September 9, 2022.
^ Katyal, Neal (2013). "The Solicitor General and Confession of Error". Fordham Law Review. 81 (6): 3027.
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Reviews of Property Outlaws:
- Bartow, Ann (February 2012). "Review of Property Outlaws". The IP Law Book Review. 2 (2): 103–107. Archived from the original on November 14, 2020. Retrieved November 14, 2020.
- "Recent Publications". Harvard Law Review. 124 (7): 1838–1839. May 20, 2011.