Irina D. Manta

Visiting Professor
Villanova University
Charles Widger School of Law

Irina Manta's research spans legal issues involving intellectual property, torts, the internet, privacy, artificial intelligence, property, national security and immigration. She has a particular interest in the intersection of law and the social sciences, especially psychology and economics. Manta has published and has forthcoming work in the New York University Law Review, Texas Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, Emory Law Journal, William & Mary Law Review, Iowa Law Review, North Carolina Law Review, Washington Law Review, Alabama Law Review, Boston College Law Review, Ohio State Law Journal, Northwestern University Law Review Online and Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, among others. She is also a co-author of a textbook on criminal law issues in intellectual property and blogs for The Volokh Conspiracy.

In 2014, she received the Lawrence A. Stessin Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Publications, which is awarded to two junior faculty members across all disciplines at Hofstra University in recognition of outstanding scholarship. Manta has delivered well over 100 talks nationally and internationally, and her writings have appeared in the Washington Post, Scientific American, MSNBC, USA Today, Chicago Tribune, Salon, Newsweek, Yahoo! News, International Business Times and The Conversation, as well as on SCOTUSblog. She also co-hosts the podcast Strangers on the Internet and posts on Bluesky.

During her academic career, Manta has taught or will teach courses in the following topic areas: torts, property, intellectual property, trademarks, copyright, patents, law and social science.