Amy Semet

Amy Semet is an Associate Professor of Law at the University at Buffalo School of Law, holding a joint affiliation with the Department of Political Science. She specializes in Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property Law (particularly patent law), Administrative Law, and Empirical Legal Studies. Her research employs empirical and statistical methods to analyze legal institutions, focusing on intellectual property, immigration, labor, and environmental law. She has created extensive databases of agency and court decisions to study institutional decision-making and propose reforms. Semet's work has been published in leading journals such as the Georgetown Law Journal and Minnesota Law Review.

Education:

• PhD in Political Science (Columbia University)
• J.D. cum laude (Harvard Law School)
• B.A. summa cum laude in Government and History (Dartmouth College)

Her research interests include patent litigation, administrative agency behavior, and the intersection of law with social science. Semet clerked for Judge Paul Michel at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and practiced intellectual property law at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, handling high-stakes patent cases. She has also conducted pro bono work in trademark, family law, and 9/11 compensation cases.

Teaching roles include legal writing at Harvard, American politics at Dartmouth and Columbia, and statistical methods at Columbia's Quantitative Methods in Social Science program. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Princeton's Center for the Study of Democratic Politics and was a Visiting Fellow at Yale Law School’s Information Society Project.