Caroline Lawrence
Associate
Caroline Lawrence is an associate in the intellectual property transactions group at Ropes & Gray. Her practice focuses on the intellectual property aspects of strategic transactions, including licensing agreements, mergers, and acquisitions. Caroline graduated from Yale Law School, where she was the Editor in Chief of the Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law & Ethics and won the faculty prize for the best student note published in the Yale Law Journal. Prior to law school Caroline worked at the intersection of computer programing and neuroscience, developing a novel brain-computer interface for people with disorders of consciousness.
Publications
- Author, "Soft on Crime: Antitrust Soft Law to Solve Cybersecurity Governance Crises," YALE J. L. TECH. (forthcoming 2023)
- Co-author, “Life Sciences U.S. Trends and Developments,” Chambers Global Practice Guide 2022 chapter (April 2022)
- Co-author, “Designing an Americans with Abilities Act: Consciousness, Capabilities, and Civil Rights,” B.C. L. REV. (2022)
- Co-author, “Lessons on Cooperative Federalism from a Decade of Mental Health Parity Enforcement,” 130 YALE L. J. 2216 (2021)
- Author, “Masking Up: A COVID-19 Face-off between Anti-Mask Laws and Mandatory Mask Orders for Black Americans,” 11 CALIF. L. REV. ONLINE (2020)
- Co-author, “Brain-Computer Interfaces and the Right to Be Heard: Calibrating Legal and Clinical Norms in Pursuit of the Patient’s Voice,” 33 HARV. J. L. TECH. 167 (2019)
- Co-author, “Can Coherence-Based Interventions Change Dogged Moral Beliefs about Meat-Eating?”, 96 J. EXPERIMENTAL SOC. PSYCHOLOGY 104 (2021)
- Co-author, “Olmstead Enforcements for Moderate to Severe Brain Injury: The Pursuit of Civil Rights Through the Application of Law, Neuroscience, and Ethics,” 95 TUL. L. REV. 525 (2020)
- Co-author, “COVID-Dynamic: A Large-Scale Multifaceted Longitudinal Study of Socioemotional and Behavioral Change Across the Pandemic,” PSYARXIV PREPRINTS (2021)
Education
- JD, Yale Law School, 2021
- BA, Franklin & Marshall College, 2018
Admissions / Qualifications
Qualifications
- Massachusetts, 2021