Melody Drummond Hansen

Melody Drummond Hansen  '96
Intellectual Property Assosciate, Kirkland and Ellis, Chicago & Washington, DC

Education:
Bachelor's degree, American Studies, Georgetown Univesity (2000)
Master's degree, Comparative and International Education, University of Oxford (2002)
Law degree, University of Chicago (2005)

Career Highlights:
During Hansen's undergraduate career at Georgetown she began her work researching American life and published her first thesis, Content and Discontent: Understanding the Titled Arc Controversy, A Decade Later focusing on the connection between controversy and public art as seen through the case of the Titled Arc in New York City. After graduating Georgetown, she worked for the Social Policy Action Network in D.C. where she researched and wrote about policy issues that affect low-income communities. She then moved to England to study at the University of Oxford where she graduated with a Masters in Comparative and International Education in 2002. During law school, she worked with the Edwin F. Mandel Legal Aid Clinic representing plaintiffs in a race-discrimination suit against Nike in a federal court. Hansen is an attorney with Kirkland and Ellis in Chicago and Washington, D.C. focusing on trademark and patent law.