Bio
Professor Hannah Stitt, a seasoned intellectual property litigator, joined the faculty as an adjunct professor in 2026.
Professor Stitt is the founder of Tectonic Law, a San Francisco-based intellectual property litigation firm. Professor Stitt has worked on trademark disputes throughout her career, and her experience includes prosecution of trademarks and litigation at the state level.
In addition to her litigation practice, Professor Stitt has been deeply engaged in the professional advancement of intellectual property practitioners. Appointed in 2025, Professor Stitt serves as an Executive Committee Member for the California Lawyers Association’s Intellectual Property Law Section (CLA-IP). She contributes significantly to CLA-IP’s efforts to connect her peers to trailblazers, thought leaders and relevant educational sessions on the evolving legal landscape.
Outside of her intellectual property practice, Professor Stitt has great involvement in frontier industries, such as cannabis and crypto, that are shaped by rapid social and regulatory change. Between 2018 and 2022, Professor Stitt served on the Ethics Committee for the International Cannabis Bar Association. She contributed significantly to the INCBA’s proposed model rules of professional conduct for attorneys serving clients in regulated cannabis markets, and pushed the committee to develop a model evidentiary rule to protect attorney work product. Her advice and counsel has shaped the market.
Professor Stitt has experience in clinical instruction through her work at the Prisoner Advocacy Network (a project of the SF Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild) (now shuttered). As a Lead Attorney and Co-Director of PAN, Professor Stitt worked closely with legal workers and law students to assist California prisoners to navigate the intricacies of the civil administrative legal system in order to meet their basic needs and human rights. She first became interested in the conditions of confinement for California prisoners as a law student through UC Law SF’s Abolition & Prisoner Outreach program.
She earned her J.D. from UC Law SF in 2015, where she now returns as an adjunct professor. Prior to founding Tectonic Law, Professor Stitt worked at various business focused litigation firms in San Francisco, California.