Professor Victoria Schwartz is a Visiting Professor at UCLA School of Law and teaches Intellectual Property. Her research examines the complex interactions between privacy law and the private sector. Her work has been selected for the prestigious Harvard/Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum, included in the Securities Law Review, an annual anthology of the best securities law articles, and awarded the competitive Dukeminier Award, annually recognizing the best legal scholarship published on the topics of sexual orientation and gender identity.

Professor Schwartz is a tenured Professor at Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law where she previously served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. Professor Schwartz was the proud recipient of Pepperdine University's 2017 Howard A. White Award for Teaching Excellence. She has also twice received the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship.

Professor Schwartz joined the Pepperdine faculty from the University of Chicago Law School where she was a Bigelow Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in Law. Professor Schwartz previously practiced law at O'Melveny & Myers LLP where her practice included intellectual property, entertainment law, contract law and complex and appellate litigation. While at O'Melveny, Professor Schwartz taught at the UCLA Ninth Circuit Appellate Clinic and co-authored an article about areas of uncertainty in trademark law.

Professor Schwartz graduated in 2004 from Stanford University where she received a BA in Political Science with departmental honors and distinction, a BA in Slavic Languages and Literatures with distinction, and a BS in Mathematics with distinction. She graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School in 2007. Following graduation, Professor Schwartz clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for the Honorable Jay S. Bybee.