Felicia Caponigri

Professor Caponigri joined the faculty of Marquette University Law School in 2025. Her primary scholarly interests are in the fields of intellectual property law and culture, with a particular interest in Fashion Law, Art Law, and Cultural Heritage Law. Her scholarship has appeared in the Chicago-Kent Journal of Intellectual Property, the Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, the Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal, and the International Journal of Constitutional Law, amongst others. She has contributed op-eds and articles to The Fashion Law and other media outlets, has been interviewed by the BBC, and her work has been cited in the Chicago Monuments Project Final Report.

Prior to joining the Marquette Law School faculty, Professor Caponigri was a Visiting Scholar at Chicago-Kent College of Law, where she taught her signature course Fashion Law. From 2019 to 2022, Professor Caponigri was the Program Director of Notre Dame Law School’s IP & Technology Program and then the Law School’s Director of International & Graduate Programs, in addition to teaching Fashion Law as a Term Teaching Professor. She has been a Guest Scholar at the IMT School for Advanced Studies in Lucca, Italy and a guest lecturer at law schools abroad and in the U.S., including the University of Florence, the University of Padova, NYU School of Law, Brooklyn Law School, the CUNY Graduate Center in New York, and DePaul College of Law, amongst others.

Professor Caponigri holds a JD, magna cum laude, from Notre Dame Law School and her B.A., cum laude, from the University of Notre Dame, as well as a Ph.D. in Analysis and Management of Cultural Heritage from the IMT School for Advanced Studies in Lucca, Italy.