Mary Catherine Amerine

Mary Catherine Amerine is a Visiting Associate Professor of Law and Frank H. Marks Intellectual Property Law Fellow.

Professor Amerine’s teaching and research focuses on intellectual property law, particularly copyright, trademark, and false advertising law. Prior to joining GW Law, she litigated federal false advertising cases in the pharmaceutical and medical devices industries as well as copyright infringement cases in the entertainment, music, and comedy fields. She also managed the international trademark portfolio for one of the world’s largest consumer retailers.

A graduate of William & Mary Law School, Professor Amerine has won multiple writing awards, and was a 2022-2023 Edison Fellow at the Center for Intellectual Property x Innovation Law (C-IP2) at George Mason University, Antonin Scalia Law School.

Her current research explores the ways in which public art, professional art forgers and authenticators, and the replication of style and genre by AI platforms illuminate core questions of copyright such as authorship, substantial similarity, look and feel, and derivative works. Professor Amerine is also working on a project involving the tension between the ways courts treat consumers of low-cost goods in trademark infringement and in false advertising.