Assistant Professor of Law

Professor Leah Chan Grinvald joined SLU LAW in 2009 after several years of practicing law in the private sector. Most recently, Professor Grinvald served as global corporate counsel at Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc. She advised on a variety of legal issues including trademark, copyright, contract and employment law arising within TaylorMade and its affiliated entities located outside of the United States. Previously, Professor Grinvald was a corporate associate with Latham & Watkins LLP and Clifford Chance US LLP.

Professor Grinvald’s latest scholarship, Making Much Ado About Theory: The Chinese Trademark Law, 15 Mich. Telecomm. & Tech. L. Rev. 53 (2008), provides a comprehensive and comparative analysis of the Chinese Trademark Law. She argues that the United States views the Chinese Trademark Law through an American theory of trademark law, and ignores that China has adopted its own theory of trademark law. This difference in theoretical justifications for each country’s trademark laws is one of the reasons the United States and China come into conflict regarding China’s protection of trademarks.

Professor Grinvald received her B.A. in East Asian Studies, summa cum laude, from The George Washington University. She later obtained a J.D. from the New York University School of Law, where she served as the Articles and Notes Editor for the Journal of International Law & Politics. Following law school, Professor Grinvald served as a law clerk for the Honorable Frank Sullivan, Jr. in the Indiana State Supreme Court.