Areas of Expertise
Property, Copyright, Wills and Trusts, Real Estate
Courses
Property, Wills & Trusts, Real Estate Transactions, Happiness & the Law
Biography
Professor Dave Fagundes writes and teaches about property, including copyright, real estate, and wills and trusts.
Fagundes's most recent and forthcoming scholarship focuses on how property rhetoric affects lay perceptions of ownership, the intersection of copyright and administrative law, the terminal doctrines of intellectual property, and the Anna Nicole Smith estates litigation. His articles have appeared in the New York University Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review, Texas Law Review, and Vanderbilt Law Review, among others. His work has been selected for presentation at leading national venues including the Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum and the plenary session of the IP Scholars’ Conference (on two occasions) and has been showcased five times in the Journal of Things We Like Lots (JOTWELL).
Fagundes previously taught at the University of Houston Law Center (UHLC) and at Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles, California. Prior to entering academia, he worked as a Bigelow Fellow and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School, an associate at the Washington, DC office of Jenner & Block, LLP, and a clerk to Judge David S. Tatel of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit.
Fagundes was named UHLC Professor of the Year in 2020 and was awarded the University of Houston’s Teaching Excellence Award in 2023. He was elected to the American Law Institute in July 2020.