Career series: Lisa Larrimore Ouellette
08-03-2021
13-05-2020
Lisa Larrimore Ouellette, a professor at Stanford Law School, tells WIPR about her research on COVID-19 and her debt of gratitude to an inspiring female mentor.
Tell us about the course of your career.
I thought I wanted to be a research physicist, but in the final year of my PhD at Cornell University, I realised that the research questions I had focused on weren’t the kind of problems I wanted to study for the rest of my career.
I had always been interested in bigger-picture questions of science policy, and I read an article about patent law that inspired me to go to law school. My first exposure to legal scholarship and research came during a seminar in my first year at Yale Law School, and I loved it.