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Alice
Armitage

Professor and Director of Applied Innovation, LexLab

  • Office 112-200
  • Email Address armitagea@uchastings.edu
  • Telephone (415) 565-4827
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Biography

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.

Expertise

  • Law & Digital Technology
  • Startup & Innovation Law

Education

  1. Yale Law School 1980

    J.D., Law

  2. Brown University 1975

    M.A., British and American Literature

  3. Brown University 1975

    B.A., British and American Literature

Selected Scholarship

  1. Design Thinking: The Answer to the Impasse Between Innovation and Regulation 2017

    Georgetown Law Technology Review

  2. The Gender Gap in Startup Catalyst Organizations: Bridging the Divide between Narrative and Reality 2017

    Oregon Law Review

  3. Gauguin, Darwin, & Design Thinking: A Solution to the Impasse between Innovation & Regulation 2016

    Cambridge University Press (Forthcoming)

  4. Startups and Unmet Legal Needs 2015

    Utah Law Review

Courses

  1. Startup Legal Garage Corporate Module
  2. Startup Legal Garage Patent Module
  3. Legal Technology: Building a Startup

Links

  1. Publications on SSRN

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