Education
JSD, New York University
MPP, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
LLM, Cambridge University
LLB, University of New South Wales
Bio
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 the Columbia Journal of Law and the Arts, the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law, the Fordham Intellectual Property, Media, and Entertainment Law Journal, the Loyola University Chicago Law Journal, and the 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.
The New Art Forgers, Ariz. St. L.J. (forthcoming 2026)
Engineering Semiotic Democracy, FIU L. Rev. (forthcoming 2026)
Artificial Intelligence and the End of Autonomy, 34 Cornell J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 1 (2024)
The Death of the Legal Subject, 25 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L. 1 (2023)
Ocularcentrism and Deepfakes: Should Seeing Be Believing?, 31 Fordham Intell. Prop. Media & Ent. L.J. 1042 (2021)
Meet Your New Overlords: How Digital Platforms Develop and Sustain Technofeudalism, 43 Colum. J.L. & Arts 455 (2020)
The Incredible Shrinking Victory: Eli Lilly v. Canada, Success, Judicial Reversal, and Continuing Threats from Pharmaceutical ISDS, 49 Loy. U. Chi. L.J. 479 (2020)
Sovereign Immunity for Rent: How the Commodification of Tribal Sovereign Immunity Reflects the Failures of the U.S. Patent System, 29 Fordham Intell. Prop. Media & Ent. L.J. 429 (2019)
Corporate Power Unbound: Investor-State Arbitration of IP Monopolies on Medicines - Eli Lilly v. Canada and the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, 23 J. Intell. Prop. L. 1 (2015)