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Jessica M. Kiser serves as Professor of Law at Gonzaga University, directing the G.U. Wine Institute and co-directing the Center for Law, Ethics, and Commerce. She teaches Intellectual Property, Business Law, and Property courses while leveraging prior experience at Kirkland & Ellis LLP's Transactional IP group in New York.
Her academic credentials include a J.D. from Columbia Law School—where she was Managing Editor of the Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts and a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar—and dual undergraduate degrees from Boston University (B.S. in Communication, B.A. in Cultural Anthropology).
Professor Kiser's research specializes in intellectual property intersections with emerging technologies, trademark enforcement strategy, and brand-copyright dynamics. She examines how legal uncertainty influences business decisions in trademark disputes and analyzes procedural flaws in disparagement-based trademark registrations, contributing foundational insights to IP theory and commercial practice.
Her publications reveal consistent exploration of trademark law's evolving landscape, particularly regarding brand identity protection in digital markets and the tension between commercial speech rights and cultural sensitivity in trademark registration processes.
Her notable recognition includes:
- Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
As Co-Director of the Center for Law, Ethics, and Commerce and Director of the Wine Institute, she oversees interdisciplinary initiatives connecting legal scholarship with industry applications, though specific grant funding details remain undisclosed in source materials.
The G.U. Wine Institute under her leadership investigates regulatory frameworks for viticulture commerce, while the Center for Law, Ethics, and Commerce develops ethical business practice models through academic-industry collaboration.
