Biography
BJ Ard teaches and writes on copyright, intellectual property, and the intersections of law and technology. His recent scholarship has interrogated the law’s role in structuring intellectual production and competition in the information economy, including industries impacted by AI. Ard’s work appears in distinguished law journals including the Emory Law Journal, Washington & Lee Law Review, Maryland Law Review, and Yale Law Journal. He is also the co-author of sections of the leading copyright treatise Nimmer on Copyright.
Professor Ard completed his J.D. and Ph.D. at Yale Law School, where he was awarded the Stephen J. Massey Prize for his work in the Community and Economic Development Clinic and served as Managing Editor of Yale Law Journal. After law school, Ard served as a law clerk to Judge R. Lanier Anderson III on the Eleventh Circuit. He also worked as a visiting assistant professor at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, a research fellow at the Yale Information Society Project, and in private practice at Irell & Manella LLP in Los Angeles.
The UW Law student body selected Ard as Law School Classroom Teacher of the Year for 2020–2021. He is a core faculty member for the National Science Foundation Traineeship Program INTEGRATE, an interdisciplinary program developed to address fundamental research challenges for the integration of robots into the future of work; he is also a principal investigator for the four-year National Science Foundation project “Defending the Supply Chain of Democracy,” a partnership with the Open Law Library and the NYU Tandon School of Engineering aimed at developing secure systems for publishing, archiving, and accessing the law.
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