Deborah Gerhardt served as director of the intellectual property initiative and taught courses in copyright law and trademark law at UNC from 2005-09. She concurrently served as scholarly communications director for the UNC University Libraries from 2005-08.
Prior to coming to UNC, she clerked for Judge John M. Manos for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, was an associate both at Jones Day Reavis & Pogue in Cleveland and at Hunton & Williams in Richmond, Virginia. She also taught as an adjunct professor at William & Mary Law School and served as associate director of the Intellectual Property Project at the University of Richmond School of Law.
Gerhardt teaches courses in her research area of intellectual property. She earned her A.B. degree from Duke and her J.D. degree cum laude from Case Western Reserve School of Law. She received a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support empirical copyright research in May 2008.