Dr. Elizabeth Townsend Gard is a Professor of Law at Tulane University Law School, and is currently a Lepage Faculty Entrepreneurship Fellow at the A.B. Freeman School of Business, and the Greenbaum Fellow at the Newcomb Institute, both at Tulane University. Her specialty is intellectual property, with a focus on copyright and trademarks. She has been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court for her work copyright.