FACULTY
Faculty Profile
Full-time Faculty
Stephanie Plamondon
Bruce C. Hafen Professor of Law
Stephanie Plamondon joined the BYU Law faculty in 2015. Her research focuses on mind sciences, innovation, and the law. She is particularly interested in applying empirical work in psychology and neuroscience to current legal and policy challenges in innovation law, intellectual property law, criminal law, public health law, and other areas. Her recent research has explored how poverty and adversity impact decision-making and what this means for innovation, creation, and distributive justice. She is currently working on a book project that explores the potential of poverty-reducing policies to bring more underrepresented persons into the innovator pool and improve the quality of innovative and creative output in the US.
Prior to joining BYU’s faculty, Professor Plamondon was the resident academic fellow with Stanford’s Program in Neuroscience and Society (SPINS), a joint initiative of Stanford Law School and Stanford Department of Psychology. She also spent time as a patent litigation attorney at Goodwin Procter in Boston (specializing in Hatch-Waxman litigation), and as a law clerk for the Honorable Raymond C. Clevenger III on the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, DC. In Fall 2018, she was a visiting professor at Notre Dame Law School.
Professor Plamondon holds a JD (cum laude) from Harvard Law School, a PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Utah School of Medicine, and an undergraduate degree in Physics from the University of Prince Edward Island in her hometown of Charlottetown. Her legal writing (some of which has been published under the name Stephanie Plamondon Bair) has appeared in the Northwestern University Law Review, the Boston University Law Review, the BYU Law Review, the Ohio State Law Journal, the University of Illinois Law Review, and the Berkeley Technology Law Journal, among other outlets. Her science writing has appeared in Nature, Animal Behaviour, and the Journal of Comparative Psychology.
Additional Information
LAW:
- An Evidence-Based Approach to Fair Use, Georgia Law Review (2025) (with Clark Asay, Cree Jones, and Cassidy McCleary). [SSRN]
- Extra-Legal Uses of TM, 14 NYU Journal of Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law 120 (2024) (with Clark Asay and LaReina Hingson). [SSRN]
- Smart Patents, 2023 University of Illinois Law Review 419 (2023). [SSRN]
- The Sociology and Psychology of Innovation: A Synthesis and Research Agenda for Intellectual Property Scholars, 60 Houston Law Review 261 (2022) (invited symposium contribution) (with Laura Pedraza-Fariña). [SSRN]
- Inequality in Abundance (book chapter), Scarcity, Regulation, and the Abundance Society, Frontiers In Research Metrics and Analytics (July 2022). [SSRN]
- Innovation’s Hidden Externalities, 47 Brigham Young University Law Review 1385 (2022). [SSRN]
- Innovation in Adversity, 49 Florida State University Law Review 825 (2022) (with Clark D. Asay). [SSRN]
- COVID-19 and Its Impact(s) on Innovation, 2021 Utah L. Rev. 805 (with Clark D. Asay). [SSRN]
- Impoverished IP, 81 Ohio St. L.J. 523 (2020). [SSRN]
- Malleable Rationality, 79 Ohio St. L.J. 17 (2018). [SSRN]
- Anti-Innovation Norms, 112 Nw. U. L. Rev. 1069 (2018) (with Laura G. Pedraza-Fariña). [SSRN]
- Innovation Inc., 32 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 713 (2017). [SSRN]
- Rational Faith: The Utility of Fairness in Copyright, 97 B.U. L. Rev. 1487 (2017). [SSRN]
- The Psychology of Patent Protection, 48 Connecticut L. Rev. 297 (2015). [SSRN]
- Adjustments, Extensions, Disclaimers, and Continuations: When do Patent Term Adjustments Make Sense?, 41 Cap. U. L. Rev. 445 (2013). [SSRN]
- Direct to Consumer Genetic Testing: Learning from the Past and Looking Toward the Future, 67 Food and Drug L. J. 413 (2012). [SSRN]
SCIENCE:
- Roles of Syntax Information in Directing Song Development in White-Crowned Sparrows, 124 J. Comp. Psychol. 117 (2010) (with Franz Goller and Gary Rose).
- Tutor Model Syntax Influences the Syntactical and Phonological Structure of Crystallized Songs of White-Crowned Sparrows, 76 Animal Behav. 1815 (2008) (with Franz Goller and Gary Rose).
- Species-Typical Songs in White-Crowned Sparrows Tutored with Phrase Pairs, 432 Nature 753 (2004) (with Alexander Baugh, Brenton Cooper, Franz Goller, Howard Gritton and Gary Rose).
- Scholastic Model of PAC Nuclear Relaxation Cause by Defects Hopping on a Simple Cubic Lattice, 136 Hyperfine Interactions 627 (2001) (with Taylor Grow and William Evenson).