Andrew Gilden

Andrew Gilden joined the faculty of Southwestern Law School in 2025. Professor Gilden teaches in the areas of property, intellectual property, and trusts & estates. His research focuses on the evolving interplay between law, emerging technologies, and popular culture, with a particular interest in how intellectual property and technology law intersect with sexual identities, outsider cultures, creative communities, and nontraditional families. His scholarship has appeared in a wide range of highly respected publications, including Georgetown Law Journal, Washington University Law Review, Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, Boston College Law Review, and William & Mary Law Review. 

Professor Gilden comes to Southwestern with extensive teaching and practice experience. Before joining Southwestern, Professor Gilden was an Associate Professor of Law at Willamette University College of Law and a Thomas C. Grey Fellow and Lecturer of Law at Stanford University. He has served as a visiting professor at UC Law San Francisco and Georgetown University Law Center as well as a visiting scholar at Columbia Law School's Center for Gender & Sexuality Law.  Prior to entering academia, he worked as an associate in the New York office of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, his practice focused primarily on intellectual property and media litigation. He clerked for the Hon. Cynthia Holcomb Hall of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the Hon. Marilyn Hall Patel of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. He is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center and Brown University.