Rachel Landy is an Assistant Professor of Law, where she teaches and writes in the areas of contracts and copyright. Landy’s research focuses on how contracts and contracting practices affect innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurship. Her scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in the Boston University Law Review, the U.C. Davis Law Review, and the Boston College Law Review. 

Prior to entering academia, Landy served on the public policy team at Google, where she oversaw YouTube’s global music policy portfolio. She previously spent several years in private practice as a technology transactions attorney at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and Cooley LLP. In that capacity, she represented hundreds of startups on commercial contract and intellectual property matters relating to day-to-day business, mergers and acquisitions, and initial public offerings, with an emphasis on content licensing. 

Landy earned a Bachelor of Music in Music Business from New York University and a J.D. from UCLA School of Law. When she’s not writing or teaching, Landy is actively engaged in state and local policy issues and has directly contributed to several common-sense state election reforms.

Featured Scholarship

Downstreaming

65 B.C. L. Rev. 1251 (2024)  

Exit Engineering

20 N.Y.U. J.L. & Bus. 27 (2023)

Book:

Beyond the Work Product: A Guide to Relationship-Driven Transactional Lawyering