Katrina Geddes

Education

• JSD, New York University
• MPP, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
• LLM, Cambridge University
• LLB, University of New South Wales

Biography

Katrina Geddes is a scholar of intellectual property law and information capitalism. Her scholarship analyzes how emerging technologies expose deficiencies within existing doctrine and challenge the normative and epistemological foundations of our legal system. Her research has examined law's response to the social, cultural, and economic consequences of predictive algorithms, machine learning systems, and generative AI models. 

Professor Geddes currently teaches courses in copyright, contracts, and AI law. Her research has been published in Columbia Journal of Law and the Arts, Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law, Fordham Intellectual Property, Media, and Entertainment Law Journal, Loyola University Chicago Law Journal, and Journal of Intellectual Property Law. Professor Geddes has two forthcoming publications in 2026: The New Art Forgers (Arizona State Law Journal) and Engineering Semiotic Democracy (FIU Law Review). 

Prior to joining Ohio State, Professor Geddes was a Postdoctoral Fellow at NYU School of Law and Cornell Tech, and a Research Fellow at Harvard Law School, where she taught copyright as part of Harvard Law School's CopyrightX initiative. Prior to academia, Katrina worked as a junior associate at King & Wood Mallesons in Sydney, Australia, and as a law clerk to Justice Robert Macfarlan on the Court of Appeal of New South Wales. She holds a JSD from NYU, an MPP from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, an LLM from Cambridge University, and an LLB from the University of New South Wales. 

She is an affiliated fellow at Yale Law School's Information Society Project.