Adjunct Professor of Law

Email: joe.vardner@gmail.com

Teaching

• First-Year Legal Writing, Fordham University School of Law, 2020-present
• Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University Law Center, Legal Research, Analysis & Writing for LL.M.s, 2014-2018

Experience

• Council Member, District of Columbia Financial Services Regulatory Sandbox and Innovation, 2019-present 
• Antitrust Compliance Officer, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., 2018-present
• Associate, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, 2015-2018
• Trial Attorney, Department of Justice, 2011-2015

Education

• Harvard Law School, J.D. 2011 cum laude
       Heyman Fellow, Harvard Law School
       Submissions Editor & Line Editor, Harvard Journal of Law & Technology
       First Place, National Giles Patent Moot Court before the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals
• University of California at Los Angeles, B.S. 2006 (Civil Engineering)

Publications

• The Statutory Presumption of Patent Validity in Antitrust Cases, 25 Harv. J. Law & Tech. 225
• Negotiating Trade Agreements, 2013 AIPLA Spring Meeting Paper, with Stanford McCory, Asst. U.S. Trade Representative