Rachel Landy is an Assistant Professor of Law and teaches Contracts and Copyright. 

Landy arrived at Cardozo in 2022 and previously served as a Visiting Assistant Professor and Director of the Heyman Center for Corporate Governance. In that role, she taught Contracts, Professional Responsibility, and Technology Transactions. 

Landy came to Cardozo from the public policy team at Google, where she managed YouTube’s response to legislative proposals globally relating to the licensing and availability of music on the platform. Prior to Google, she spent several years in private practice as a technology transactions attorney, advising hundreds of companies (primarily startups) on commercial contract and intellectual property matters relating to day-to-day business, mergers and acquisitions, and initial public offerings. 

In addition to her professional experience, Landy is a forceful advocate for voting rights and election law reform in New York State. She currently sits on the Board of Directors of and serves as a Policy Advisor to Vote Early NY (a nonpartisan, non-profit voting rights and education organization). Her advocacy has directly contributed to the passage of several state laws, including those related to counting affidavit ballots and expanding mail voting during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Landy is the author of Beyond the Work Product: A Guide to Relationship-Based Transactional Lawyering (American Bar Association, 2021). She earned a Bachelor of Music in Music Business from New York University and a J.D. from UCLA School of Law.

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