In this role, she specializes in intellectual property and contract issues. Prior to her work at EFF, Ms. McSherry was a civil litigator at the law firm of Bingham McCutchen, LLP. Ms. McSherry is also the author of Who Owns Academic Work?: Battling for Control of Intellectual Property. She has a B.A. from the University of California-Santa Cruz, a Ph.D. from the University of California-San Diego and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.