Dana DeVlieger

Associate Intellectual Property

New York +1 212 341 7778

Overview

Dana DeVlieger is an associate in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. She holds a J.D. from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law as well as a Ph.D. in Music Theory from the University of Minnesota. Dana’s practice is concentrated in the areas of copyright, trademark, and right of publicity law and her research focuses primarily on music copyright litigation and forensic musicology.

Summer ExternHonorable Virginia KendallUnited States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Visiting Instructor, Music Theory, University of Delaware, 2019–2020

More

Thought Leadership

“Searching for Similarity: Confirmation Bias in Partisan Forensic Musicology,” Journal of Popular Music Studies, 2022

“’Pullin’ Out of Here to Win:’ The Narrative Flexibility of ‘Thunder Road,’” Biannual Online Journal of Springsteen Studies, 2023

Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

  • 2024New York

Education

  • Northwestern Pritzker School of LawJ.D.cum laude2023

    Dean’s List

    Kirkland & Ellis Award: Contracts

    Managing Articles Editor, Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property

    U.S. Supreme Court Clinic

    Vice President of Events, Arts & Entertainment Society

    Executive Producer & Music Director, Wigmore Follies

    Music Director, Habeas Chorus

  • University of MinnesotaPh.D., Music Theory2020

    Social Sciences Research Council Dissertation Proposal Development Grant

    Graduate Research Partnership Program Summer Fellowship

    Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship

    Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship

  • University of Notre DameB.A., Music Performance (Trumpet) and Psychology2012

    Notre Dame Band Community Service Award

    Band of the Fighting Irish