Professor Said joined the faculty at Santa Clara University School of Law in 2024 after teaching at the University of Washington School of Law for 13 years. She has also taught at the University Virginia School of Law and Stanford Law School. Said’s research focuses on copyright law and interpretive issues as well as on the role of the jury in intellectual property litigation. Said teaches tort law and published a free open-access casebook, now in its second edition, that reorients the teaching of tort law around issues of race, gender, class, ability, and other sociological factors. She recently joined the editorial board of the Copyright Society of America’s journal.
Education
J.D., Columbia University Law School
Ph.D in Comparative Literature, Harvard University
B.A., University of California, Berkeley
Areas of Specialization
Copyright Law, Tort Law, Law and Humanities, Advertising Law