School of Law
Timothy R. Holbrook
J.D., Professor of Law
Timothy Holbrook earned his J.D. from Yale Law School. He comes to Emory in 2009 from Chicago-Kent College of Law, where he was an Associate Professor and the Associate Director of the Program in Intellectual Property Law. He specializes in intellectual property and patent law, publishing widely in such journals as William and Mary Law Review (2008), Washington University Law Review (2006), and Science (2006). Professor Holbrook has also co-authored Patent Litigation and Strategy (West Group, 2002). After law school, he clerked for the Honorable Glenn L. Archer Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He has worked in Budapest, Hungary, with the Hungarian patent law firm Danubia, and the Washington, D.C., law firm of Wiley, Rein & Fielding, where his practice focused on patent and appellate litigation.
Julie A. Seaman
J.D., Associate Professor of Law
Julie Seaman earned a J.D. from Harvard University (1989, magna cum laude), where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review and a teaching assistant for the Federal Litigation course. She clerked with federal district court Judge Robert J. Ward (1989-1991) and joined the Emory faculty in 2001, first as an instructor in legal writing, then in 2002 becoming a Visiting Assistant Professor, advancing to Assistant Professor in 2004 and earning promotion to untenured Associate Professor in 2007. She has taught Legal Writing as an adjunct professor at Stetson University School of Law. In 2005, Professor Seaman published a paper titled "Form and (Dys)Function in Sexual Harassment Law: Biology, Culture, and the Spandrels of Title VII." She currently teaches evidence and a seminar on the first amendment.
Barbara Bennett Woodhouse
J.D., Professor of Law
Barbara Bennett Woodhouse earned a JD from Columbia University (1983). She joins the Emory faculty in 2009 from the University of Florida, where she was the David H. Levin Chair in Family Law, as well as Founder and Director of the Center on Children and Families. She is one of the foremost authorities on, and champions for, children's rights in the United States. Her research interests include adoption, child welfare law, children's rights, constitutional law, and family law. She has contributed to many volumes and reviews, including the St. John's Law Review (2007) and Virginia Journal of Law and Social Policy (2005). Her most recent book is Hidden in Plain Sight: The Tragedy of Children's Rights from Ben Franklin to Lionel Tate (Princeton, 2008). She completed clerkships in the U.S. Supreme Court under Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor (1984-85) and the U.S. District Court for Southern District of New York under Hon. Abraham D. Sofaer (1983-84).
