Deepa Varadarajan
Associate Professor Maurice R. Greenberg School of Risk Science- Education
- J.D., Yale Law School
- B.A., University of Texas, Austin
- Specializations
- intellectual property law
- patent law
- trade secret law
- copyright law
- property law
- Biography
Deepa Varadarajan is an associate professor of legal studies in the Maurice R. Greenberg School of Risk Science at the J. Mack Robinson College of Business, with a secondary appointment at the College of Law. Her research focuses on intellectual property laws as a source of legal and economic risk for firms, entrepreneurs, employees, and consumers. Her recent scholarship examines how trade secrecy (and associated contractual restrictions, such as non-disclosure and non-compete clauses) can impact employees, follow-on innovation, and the public interest. Her work has appeared in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, U.C.L.A. Law Review, Iowa Law Review, Fordham Law Review, Emory Law Journal, and the peer-reviewed American Business Law Journal. Her work has been selected for presentation at the 2013 Yale/Stanford/Harvard Junior Faculty Forum and the plenary session of the 2018 Intellectual Property Law Scholars Conference at UC Berkeley School of Law.
Prior to joining GSU, Varadarajan was an assistant professor of law at St. John’s University School of Law and a Thomas C. Grey Law Fellow at Stanford Law School. She received her J.D. from Yale Law School where she was an editor of the Yale Law Journal and co-editor of the Yale Human Rights & Development Law Journal. After law school, she clerked for the Honorable M. Margaret McKeown of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Honorable Charles P. Sifton of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, and she was a litigation associate at Covington & Burling LLP.
- Publications
- Deepa Varadarajan, “Forfeiting IP,” 59 American Business Law Journal 175 (2022)
- Tian Chan, Anandhi Bharadwaj, & Deepa Varadarajan, “Business Method Innovation in US Manufacturing and Trade,” Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (2022)
- Deepa Varadarajan, “Business Secrecy Expansion and FOIA,” 68 U.C.L.A. Law Review 462 (2021)
- Joseph Fishman & Deepa Varadarajan, “Similar Secrets,” 167 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1051 (2019) (equal co-authorship)
- Deepa Varadarajan, “The Uses of IP Misuse,” 68 Emory Law Journal 739 (2019)
- Deepa Varadarajan, “Trade Secrecy Injunctions, Disclosure Risks, and eBay’s Influence,” 59 American Business Law Journal 879 (2019)
- Deepa Varadarajan, “The Trade Secret–Contract Interface,” 103 Iowa Law Review 1543 (2018)
- Deepa Varadarajan, “Trade Secret Precautions, Possession & Notice,” 68 Hastings Law Journal 357 (2017)
- Deepa Varadarajan, “Of Fences and Definite Patent Boundaries,” 18 Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law 563 (2016)
- Deepa Varadarajan, “Trade Secret Fair Use,” 83 Fordham Law Review 1401 (2014)
- Deepa Varadarajan, “Improvement Doctrines,” 21 George Mason Law Review 657 (2014)
- Deepa Varadarajan, “A Trade Secret Approach to Protecting Traditional Knowledge,” 36 Yale Journal of International Law 371 (2011)
- Deepa Varadarajan, “Billboards and Big Utilities: Borrowing Land Use Concepts to Regulate “Nonconforming” Sources Under the Clean Air Act,” 112 Yale Law Journal 2553 (2003)
- Deepa Varadarajan, “Tortious Interference and the Law of Contract: The Case for Specific Performance Revisited,” 111 Yale Law Journal 735 (2001)