iPIP Staff

Amanda Levendowski researches how lawyers can shape better technologies. She is an Associate Professor of Law and the Founding Director of the iPIP Clinic. Her scholarship has informed multiple Clinic matters where IP, privacy, and technology meet, including counseling on AI systems, secret surveillance technologies, nonconsensual intimate imagery, and face surveillance. She received Georgetown’s Gender+ Justice Fellowship for her face surveillance work. Her latest book, Clean SLATE: How Lawyers Can Shape Better Technologies (U. Cal. Press 2027), provides lawyers with a justice-ready approach to advising clients on sustainability, labor, accessibility, transparency, and ethics (SLATE) issues raised by clients’ technologies. Her first book, Feminist Cyberlaw (U. Cal. Press 2024), co-edited with Meg Leta Jones, helped launch the global feminist cyberlaw movement through essays by scholars, activists, and practitioners exploring how gender, race, sexuality, disability, and class shape cyberspace and the laws that govern it. Beyond academia, she created the first certified open source hardware perfume through her Cyberspace and Technology (CAT) Lab. She was selected as a Scholar-in-Residence with the Center for Transnational Legal Studies, where she drew on her perfumemaking to interview British and French perfumemakers about legal and social barriers in the Western perfume industry. In 2021, Public Knowledge recognized her as a 20/20 Visionary, one of twenty future leaders in technology.

Shweta Kumar is a clinical teaching fellow in the iPIP Clinic. Her areas of research interest include pharmaceutical law, patent law, FDA law, access to medicine, and health privacy. Prior to joining Georgetown, Shweta practiced intellectual property litigation at Goodwin Procter LLP in Washington, D.C. Her experience includes representing clients in district court litigation and proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), spanning a broad range of technologies, including pharmaceutical sciences, 3D printers, and software. She also has experience working with the Intellectual Property Section of the Department of Justice, defending the government in patent cases brought under 28 U.S.C. § 1498. Shweta is a member of the ABA Section of Intellectual Property Law (ABA-IPL) and a 2022-2024 ABA-IPL Young Lawyer Fellow. During law school, Shweta served as Editor-in-Chief of the Virginia Journal of Law & Technology and took part in the law school’s Patent Clinic. She received her J.D. from UVA Law, and B.S. in Neuroscience from the College of William & Mary.

Becky Chambers is the Library LOAN Staff Attorney in the iPIP Clinic. Her areas of research include copyright law, privacy law, and contract law as they relate to modern libraries. Prior to becoming the Library LOAN Staff Attorney, Becky was a clinical teaching fellow in the iPIP Clinic and a legal fellow at UC Berkeley and Project LEND, researching the intersection of law and libraries in the digital age. During law school, Becky was a student attorney in the iPIP Clinic. She received her J.D. and L.L.M. in Advocacy from Georgetown Law and her B.A. in Literary Studies from Bucknell University.

Eugenia Alvarez serves as the office manager for the iPIP Clinic. She handles the day-to-day administrative operations for the smooth running of the clinic. Prior to joining Georgetown Law Center, Eugenia worked for the World Bank, including its Legal Department, and an immigration attorney.