Michael Seringhaus

Coker Teaching Fellow, Knight Law & Media Scholar, and Fellow of the Information Society Project, Yale University Law School

Michael Seringhaus is a third-year student at Yale Law School, where he serves as a Coker Teaching Fellow and a fellow of the Information Society Project. Michael completed his PhD and a short post-doc in Mark Gerstein's bioinformatics group in the Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University (2007). He did his undergraduate work at Trinity College, University of Toronto (2000) and thereafter spent a year working in biotech, as lead bioinformatics scientist at Affinium Pharmaceuticals in Toronto. Before starting law school, Michael worked at Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP, preparing and drafting patent applications. During his 2L summer, he was the intern to Judge Timothy Dyk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Seringhaus has also worked as a summer associate at Finnegan Henderson (DC) and Latham & Watkins (Silicon Valley). Seringhaus enjoys writing for a general audience: he has published various non-academic commentaries, articles and fiction, and was a staff columnist for the Yale Daily News for four years.