Katharina de la Durantaye joined the St. John's faculty as an Assistant Professor of Law in 2008. She teaches Copyright and Introduction to American law.
Before coming to St. John's, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Boston University School of Law and an Associate-in-Law at Columbia Law School. Professor de la Durantaye’s scholarship focuses on copyright law, comparative law, and legal history. Her book The Protection of Literary Authorship in Ancient Rome was named a “Legal Book of the Year” by the leading German law journal. She has published articles on the history of intellectual property law in the Boston University International Law Journal and in Forum Historiae Iuris, one of the premier European journals of legal history.
Professor de la Durantaye received her J.D., with honors, from Humboldt University Law School and her LL.M. from Yale Law School. She received a Ph.D., summa cum laude, from Humboldt University Law School.