Kristelia García is an expert on copyright law. She is an Associate Professor at The University of Colorado Law School.Prior to joining the faculty at Colorado, García was a Fellow at the George Washington University Law School. Before that, she spent nearly a decade working in the music industry.García received her B.A. in Economics from Columbia University and her J.D. from Yale University.García’s academic work focuses on intellectual property law through the lens of law and economics. Her scholarly agenda is motivated by a series of related questions: How well do law and policy balance competing interests of users and creators? How should legal institutions respond when policies have unintended and undesirable consequences? How can we explain, and what (if anything) should we do about, situations where private ordering norms diverge from public law and policy?