Mary Yiyue Zhao

Mary Zhao is an Emerging Scholar at the University of Georgia School of Law. Her research interests are primarily in intellectual property law, with an emphasis on the application of intellectual property law to solving climate change issues. Her work examines how legal doctrines and social preferences influence each other in the context of climate change mitigation. Her scholarship has appeared in the Columbia Journal of Law and the Arts, the Rutgers University Law Review and the Virginia Journal of International Law. 

Zhao received her B.Sc. in environmental science, summa cum laude, from Cornell University, her J.D. from Stanford Law School, and her M.S. in electrical engineering from Stanford University. Prior to joining the School of Law, she worked at Covington & Burling, where she represented clients in intellectual property litigation and complex commercial litigation.