Shalom Samuels

Shalom Samuels is a legal scholar and attorney whose scholarship focuses principally on copyright and constitutional law. His publications include "Ghostwriters and State Legislatures: Copyright and Access to the Law,” published in the AIPLA Quarterly Journal, and "The Positive Law Record and the Fourth Amendment,” accepted for publication in the Loyola Marymount Law Review. He also authored "The Doctrinal Sources for Copyright and AI,” an annotated bibliography examining the legal foundations of copyright and artificial intelligence.

Mr. Samuels teaches Scholarly Writing at GW Law, working with students in the AIPLA student organization on the development, research, drafting, and revision of scholarly legal notes. His teaching draws on his experience as Executive Articles Editor of the AIPLA Quarterly Journal, where he managed a 40-editor publication team and worked extensively in legal research, source verification, citation, and editorial review. Mr. Samuels also served as a research assistant to Professor Robert Brauneis and contributed to the Music Copyright Infringement Resource Blog, Sports Litigation Alert, and Sports Facilities and the Law, writing on developments in music copyright and sports law.

Mr. Samuels received his JD from the George Washington University Law School, where he graduated with an Intellectual Property Law Concentration, was a George Washington Scholar, and was elected to the Order of the Coif. He received his BA, magna cum laude, in Political Science from Touro College, where he earned the highest score at the university that year on the National Major Field Political Science Test.

Mr. Samuels is an associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP in Washington, DC, where his practice includes regulatory and statutory matters. His pro bono work includes intellectual property counseling and litigation, copyright counseling, federal habeas proceedings under 28 U.S.C. § 2241, representation of an indigent criminal appellant before a Maryland appellate court, appellate and amicus briefing, and constitutional research in federal civil rights matters.

While in law school, Mr. Samuels served as a judicial intern to the Honorable Rudolph Contreras of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and as a law clerk to Board Judges at the Civilian Board of Contract Appeals. His work included drafting judicial opinions, orders, Board decisions, and legal memoranda, as well as reviewing extensive administrative records.