Christopher B. Seaman

Christopher B. Seaman joined the Washington and Lee law faculty in 2012. His research and teaching interests include intellectual property (IP) law, property law, remedies, and civil procedure, with a particular focus on IP litigation and remedies for the violation of IP rights. Professor Seaman’s scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in a variety of law reviews and journals, including the Virginia Law Review, the Iowa Law Review, the BYU Law Review, the Yale Journal of Law and Technology, and the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology. His empirical study of willful patent infringement was a winner of the 2010 Samsung-Stanford Patent Prize competition for outstanding new scholarship related to patent remedies. In addition, Professor Seaman has written articles on the history, constitutionality, and potential future of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act.