Deepa Varadarajan

• J.D., Yale Law School
• B.A., University of Texas, Austin

• intellectual property law
• patent law
• trade secret law
• copyright law
• property law

Deepa Varadarajan is an associate professor of legal studies in the Department of Risk Management & Insurance 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.