Kristelia A. Garcia
University of Colorado Law School
Kristelia Garcia teaches copyright, trademark, and property at the University of Colorado. Professor García also serves as Director of the Content Initiative at the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship, where she hosts an annual content conference. Her research is focused on the intersection of law, technology, and economics, with a particular focus on efficiency, competition, private ordering, and distributive justice. Her work has been published in the California Law Review and the New York University Law Review, among others. Prior to joining Colorado Law, Professor García was a visiting associate professor and the Frank H. Marks Fellow in Intellectual Property at the George Washington University Law School in Washington, DC. She is also an affiliated fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. As a practicing lawyer, Professor García worked in the music industry in Los Angeles; first at Quinn Emanuel as outside counsel to Napster, then as Director of Business Development in charge of content licensing at MySpace Music, and most recently in digital strategy as Director at Universal Music Group. Prior to her work in music, she was an associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in New York. Professor García graduated cum laude from Columbia University with a BA in Economics and was the recipient of both a Kluge Scholarship for academic achievement and the King's Crown Award for leadership in public service. At Yale Law School, she served as editor-in-chief of the Yale Journal of Law & Technology, and was a co-founder of the school's Student Animal Legal Defense Fund.
(05/19)
