In the field of intellectual property, John Duffy has been identified as one of the 25 most influential people in the nation by The American Lawyer and one of the 50 most influential people in the world by the U.K. publication Managing Intellectual Property. He was named a legal “visionary” by the Legal Times in 2009 and has been profiled in BusinessWeek. Duffy joined the University of Virginia School of Law in 2011, after serving on the faculty at George Washington University Law School since 2003. Prior to his academic career, he clerked for notable judges, including U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, and served in the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel. He has published articles in the University of Chicago Law Review, Columbia Law Review, Texas Law Review, and Supreme Court Review, and is the co-author of a casebook on patent law.