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Bio

Professor Alice Armitage was the Director of Applied Innovation, which oversaw LexLab, an innovative hub focused on the many impacts that technology has and will continue to have on the law. Alice began her career as an international tax attorney at Arnold & Porter in Washington DC, moving from there to a position as a federal regulator 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 Law SF 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 now teaches four courses for law students that are part of the concentration in 鈥淭echnology and Innovation in the Practice of Law鈥�. These courses include Legal Informatics, Legal Operations, Design Think and Access to Justice, The Fundamentals of Building Legal Tech Startups. In addition to building out new programs and courses at UC Law SF, Alice鈥檚 research interests focus on the intersection of technology, design thinking and regulation.听 Alice published 鈥淒esign Thinking: An Answer to the Impasse between Innovation and Regulation鈥� in the Georgetown Technology Law Review, and also has a chapter on design thinking in 鈥淭he Cambridge Handbook of Law an Entrepreneurship in the United States,鈥� published in April 2022 by the Cambridge 精东影业 Press.

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

Selected Scholarship

Design Thinking: The Answer to the Impasse Between Innovation and Regulation, 2听Geo. L. Tech. Rev.听3 (2017) (with Andrew K. Cordova, & Rebecca Siegel).听听

The Gender Gap in Startup Catalyst Organizations: Bridging the Divide between Narrative and Reality, 95听Or. L. Rev.听313 (2017) (with Robin Feldman & Connie Wang).听听

Startups and Unmet Legal Needs, 2016听Utah L. Rev.听575 (2016) (with Evan Frondorf, Christopher Williams & Robin Feldman).听听

Gauguin, Darwin, & Design Thinking: A Solution to the Impasse between Innovation & Regulation,听UC Hastings Research Paper No. 235听(2016).听

Education

• Yale Law School
  J.D., Law 1980

• Brown 精东影业
  M.A., British and American Literature 1975

• Brown 精东影业
  B.A., British and American Literature 1975