Deepa Varadarajan

Deepa Varadarajan, associate professor of law, focuses on intellectual property law and innovation. Her recent scholarship examines how trade secrecy (and associated contractual restrictions, such as non-disclosure and non-compete clauses) can impact employees, follow-on innovation, and the public interest. Her work has appeared in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, U.C.L.A. Law Review, Iowa Law Review, Fordham Law Review, Emory Law Journal, and Yale Law Journal, among other publications. Her work has been selected for presentation at the 2013 Yale/Stanford/Harvard Junior Faculty Forum and the plenary session of the 2018 Intellectual Property Law Scholars Conference at UC Berkeley School of Law. She is also the author of a novel, "Late Bloomers," (Random House), which is a 2023 Target Book Club pick, and her short stories have appeared in the Georgia Review and Colorado Review.

Prior to joining Georgia State University, Varadarajan was an assistant professor at St. John’s University School of Law and a Thomas C. Grey Law Fellow at Stanford Law School. She received her J.D. from Yale Law School where she was an editor of the Yale Law Journal and co-editor of the Yale Human Rights & Development Law Journal. After law school, she clerked for the Honorable M. Margaret McKeown of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Honorable Charles P. Sifton of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, and she was a litigation associate at Covington & Burling LLP.