Amy Semet A S S O C I ATE P R O F E S S O R PhD, Columbia University MPhil, Columbia University JD, Harvard Law School MA, Columbia University BA, Dartmouth College (716) 645-8162
amysemet@buffalo.edu
AREAS OF INTEREST ADMINISTRATIVE LAW CIVIL PROCEDURE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
My research focuses on
EMPIRICAL LEGAL STUDIES
studying legal institutions
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW
in intellectual property law
LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCE
(particularly patent law)
LEGISLATION
and administrative law from an empirical and statistical perspective. I have created several databases of
Review vol. 12 (forthcoming 2022).
law so as to better understand
Statutory Interpretation, 103(5) Minnesota Law Review 101 (2019).
Litigation: A Review of the Patent Pilot
Empirical Analysis, UC Irvine Law
labor law, and environmental
An Empirical Examination of Agency
Specialized Trial Courts in Patent
Deference in the Appellate Courts: An
property law, immigration law,
69 Duke Law Journal 1855 (2020).
PROPERTY
Statutory Interpretation and Chevron
court decisions in intellectual
Detention (with Catherine Y. Kim),
PATENT LAW
ARTICLES
administrative agency and
Presidential Ideology and Immigrant
Program’s Impact on Appellate Reversal Rates at the Five-Year Mark, 60(2) Boston College Law Review 519 (2019). Judicial Elections, Public Opinion, and Decisions on Lower Salience Issues (with Brandice Canes-Wrone
how agencies and courts make decisions. This empirical research then allows me to
An Empirical Study of Political Control
& Tom Clark ), 15(4) Journal of
Over Immigration Adjudication
Empirical Legal Studies 672 (2018).
(with Catherine Y. Kim ), 108(2)
posit how these institutions
Georgetown Law Journal 579 (2020).
can best be reformed.”
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