Amy Semet

My research focuses on studying legal institutions in intellectual property law (particularly patent law) and administrative law from an empirical and statistical perspective. I have created several databases of administrative agency and court decisions in intellectual property law, immigration law, labor law, and environmental law so as to better understand how agencies and courts make decisions. This empirical research then allows me to posit how these institutions can best be reformed.” ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

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 EMPIRICAL LEGAL STUDIES INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCE LEGISLATION PATENT LAW PROPERTY

ARTICLES Statutory Interpretation and Chevron Deference in the Appellate Courts: An Empirical Analysis, UC Irvine Law Review vol. 12 (forthcoming 2022).

An Empirical Study of Political Control Over Immigration Adjudication (with Catherine Y. Kim ), 108(2) Georgetown Law Journal 579 (2020). Presidential Ideology and Immigrant Detention (with Catherine Y. Kim), 69 Duke Law Journal 1855 (2020).

An Empirical Examination of Agency Statutory Interpretation, 103(5) Minnesota Law Review 101 (2019).

Specialized Trial Courts in Patent Litigation: A Review of the Patent Pilot 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 & Tom Clark ), 15(4) Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 672 (2018).