Columbus School of Law

Megan M. La Belle is the Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and a Professor of Law at the Catholic University of America where she teaches and researches in the areas of intellectual property, procedure, and administrative law. Before joining the faculty, Professor La Belle spent several years as a commercial litigator with the Los Angeles law firm of Munger, Tolles & Olson. Professor La Belle's practice focused on intellectual property and other complex civil litigation matters.Professor La Belle earned her B.A., summa cum laude, from the University of California, Los Angeles, and her J.D. from the University of California, Davis, School of Law. While in law school, Professor La Belle served as the Senior Notes & Comments Editor for the U.C. Davis Law Review, received the American Jurisprudence Award in Civil Procedure, and was elected to the Order of the Coif. After law school, Professor La Belle served as a law clerk to the Honorable Stephen S. Trott on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and to the Honorable Margaret M. Morrow on the United States District Court for the Central District of California.

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Law Review Articles and Essays

Professor La Belle's Scholarship on SSRN

Personal Jurisdiction and the Fairness Factor(s), 72 Emory L. J. 781(2023) available at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4078216

Fintech: New Battle Lines in the Patent Wars?, 42 Cardozo L. Rev. 277 (2020) (co-authored with Heidi M. Schooner), available at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3594402

Influencing Juries in Litigation "Hot Spots," Influencing Juries in Litigation “Hot Spots,” 94 Ind. L. J. 901 (2019)

Privilege for Patent Agents, 23 B.U. J. Sci. & Tech. L. 350 (2017) (invited symposium contribution), available at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3044739

The Patently Unexceptional Venue Statute, 66 Am. U. L. Rev. 1027 (2017) (invited symposium contribution) (co-authored with Paul R. Gugliuzza), available at https://ssrn.com/abstract=2914091

Public Enforcement of Patent Law, 96 B.U. L. Rev. 1865 (2016), available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2666835

Fee Shifting for PTAB Proceedings, 24 Tex. Intell. Prop. J. 367 (2016) (invited symposium contribution) available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2836794

The Local Rules of Patent Procedure, 47 Az. St. L.J. 63 (2015), available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2459785.

Against Settlement of (Some) Patent Cases, 67 Vand. L. Rev. 375 (2014), available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2252849.

Big Banks and Business Method Patents, 16 U. Pa. J. Bus. L. 431 (2014) (co-authored with Heidi Mandanis Schooner), available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2427986.

“Reverse” Patent Declaratory Judgment Actions: A Proposed Solution for Medtronic, 162 U. Pa. L. Rev. Online 43 (2013), available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2334476

Patent Law as Public Law, 20 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 41 (2012), available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2053798

Standing to Sue in the Myriad Genetics Case, 2 Cal. L. Rev. Circuit 68 (2011), available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1868615.

Patent Litigation, Personal Jurisdiction, and the Public Good, 18 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 43 (2010), available at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1563487.

The “Rootkit Debacle”: The Latest Chapter in the Story of the Recording Industry and the War on Music Piracy, 84 Denv. U. L. Rev. 79 (2006), available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1564903.