Education

J.D., Ph.D., Yale Law School
B.A., M.A., University of Georgia

Biography

BJ Ard teaches and writes on intellectual property, privacy, and the intersections of law and technology. His work is published or forthcoming in Emory Law Journal, Washington & Lee Law Review, Maryland Law Review, and Yale Law Journal, among other distinguished law reviews. He has also co-authored the discussion of the Supreme Court's 2021 Google v. Oracle decision in the leading copyright treatise Nimmer on Copyright. 

Professor Ard completed his J.D. and Ph.D. at Yale Law School, where he was awarded the Stephen J. Massey Prize for his work in the Community and Economic Development Clinic and served as Managing Editor of Yale Law Journal. After law school, he served as a law clerk to Judge R. Lanier Anderson III on the Eleventh Circuit.

Prior to joining the UW faculty, Professor Ard worked as a visiting assistant professor at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, a research fellow at the Yale Information Society Project, and in private practice at Irell & Manella LLP in Los Angeles.