Alice
Armitage

Professor Alice Armitage is the Director of Applied Innovation, which includes overseeing two innovative hubs on our campus, LexLab and the Startup Legal Garage. Alice began her career as an international tax attorney at Arnold & Porter in Washington DC, moving from there to a position in the Office of the International Chief Counsel at the US Internal Revenue Service to develop tax policy for complex cross-border financial transactions.

More recently, Alice took a break from practicing law to found two startups. Her experience as a two-time entrepreneur ultimately led her to UC Hastings as Director of the Startup Legal Garage. In her time as Director of this popular program, Alice developed an extensive network within both the tech and the legal communities of Silicon Valley. Alice also teaches a course for law students on the business skills necessary to build a tech startup, including agile development, design thinking, and the skills needed to pitch to investors. In addition to building out new programs and courses at UC Hastings, Alice’s research interests focus on the intersection of technology and regulation. Most recently, Alice published “Design Thinking: An Answer to the Impasse between Innovation and Regulation” in the Georgetown Technology Law Review. She  also has a chapter on design thinking forthcoming in a book to by published by the Cambridge University Press entitled “Law and Entrepreneurial Action.”

Professor Armitage is a graduate of the Yale Law School where she was the first woman Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Law Journal. She also has an A.B. and an M.A. in British and American Literature from Brown University.