Heather Hughes teaches commercial, business, and property law. Her current research concerns the impact of emerging technologies on law and the legal profession. Before joining the Washington College of Law in 2007, Professor Hughes practiced in the business department at Morrison & Foerster LLP and was an assistant professor as part of the founding faculty at FIU College of Law. Professor Hughes won, in 2019, the WCL Award for Excellence in Teaching. In 2017 she won the Edwin A. Mooers Scholar Award and, in 2010, the Emalee C. Godsey Scholar Award.