William Gallagher

William Gallagher is Professor and Director of the IP Law Center at the Golden Gate University School of Law, where he teaches courses on intellectual property law, intellectual property litigation, torts, and legal ethics. 

Professor Gallagher is the author of articles on intellectual property law and professional ethics, which have appeared in such journals as the Santa Clara Computer & High Technology Law Journal, Santa Clara Law review, Pepperdine Law review, Law and Social Inquiry, Center for the Study of Law and Society Working Papers and the Law and Politics Book Review. Professor Gallagher is also the Founding Editor of The IP Law Book Review.

Before entering legal academia, Professor Gallagher was a litigation partner in the San Francisco office of a major intellectual property law firm.

• Intellectual property law
• Intellectual property litigation
• Torts
• Legal ethics
• Sociology and history of the legal profession

• Intellectual property law
• Intellectual property litigation
• Legal profession and legal ethics
• Sociolegal methods

• Faculty Chair, GGU School of Law
• Associate Dean for Faculty Scholarship, GGU School of Law

• UC Berkeley, PhD in Jurisprudence and Social Policy, 1993
• UCLA School of Law, JD, 1994
• University of Chicago, MA in Social Sciences, 1984
• UC Berkeley, BA in Classical Studies, 1982

• Professor of Law, Golden Gate University School of Law
• Visiting Professor of Law, UCSF Law
• Visiting Professor of Law, UC Davis School of Law
• Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Law and Society, UC Berkeley

• Intellectual Property Law and Sociolegal Studies, (Chapter co-authored with Debora J. Halbert), in Handbook of Intellectual Property Research, ed. by Irene Calboli and Maria Lilla Montagni (Oxford University Press, 2021)
• Editor, International Library of Essays in Law and Society: Intellectual Property (2nd edn., Routledge, 2017 )
• What is a ‘Law and Society’ Perspective Intellectual Property?, in William T. Gallagher, ed., International Library of Essays in Law and Society: Intellectual Property; also published in Center for the Study of Law and Society/Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program Faculty Working Papers (University of California, Berkeley School of Law), No. 63.
• Trademark and Copyright Enforcement in the Shadow of IP Law, 28 Santa Clara Computer & High Tech. L.J.: 453 (2012)
• IP Legal Ethics in the Everyday Practice of Law: An Empirical Perspective on Patent Litigators, 10 J. Marshall Rev. Intell. Prop. L.: 310 (2011)