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Molly Beutz teaches Conflict of Laws, Civil Procedure, and International Intellectual Property at new York Law School. Previously, she was the Robert M. Cover and Allard K. Lowenstein Fellow in International Human Rights and a visiting lecturer in Law at Yale Law School, where she co-taught the Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic and International Human Rights: Law and Policy. Prof. Beutz also taught international human rights as a lecturer at Yale College.

Before returning to Yale to teach, Professor Beutz litigated trademark, copyright, and patent cases as an associate in the intellectual property group at Faegre & Benson LLP in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She also worked with Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights on a human rights report concerning the state’s response to domestic violence against immigrant and refugee women in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area.

Professor Beutz’s research and scholarship focuses on the intersection of intellectual property and international human rights, she is currently working on a project that seeks to marshal human rights arguments in support of compulsory licensing of educational materials.

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