Office of General Counsel

Andrew brings a wealth of experience in higher education and foundation legal practice from his work as in-house counsel at Yale and at the Mellon Foundation.  At Yale, Andrew supported museums, libraries, and other campus units on matters ranging from cultural property to corporate governance to intellectual property, and he advised university stakeholders on numerous policy, regulatory, and reputational issues affecting higher education.  At Mellon, he supported the grant management team throughout the grant life cycle, advised foundation leadership on regulatory submissions, and provided guidance on data privacy and intellectual property issues.  He holds a BA, JD, and PhD in English from Yale, where he wrote his doctoral dissertation about law and literature in modern England, and he also earned an MPhil from Cambridge University.

In his role with OGC, Andrew will be focusing on various aspects of Brown's research enterprise (entrepreneurship and technology transfer, intellectual property, and research security), in coordination with Emily Wood, Senior Associate General Counsel for Research & Academic Medicine.  Reflecting the variety of higher education and nonprofit legal issues he has handled previously, Andrew's portfolio will also include institutional privacy, museums, NAGPRA, civil rights and equal opportunity, and gift acceptance and modification.