Robin Willscheidt

Fellow at the Berkeley Art, Law, and Finance Project

Robin is a corporate attorney in O’Melveny & Myers’ Los Angeles office. As part of her practice, Robin advises on a range of transactions and executive compensation and benefits law matters. Robin also actively contributes to the firm’s pro bono practice by advising small businesses and non-profit organizations regarding general corporate and arts matters. Prior to joining O’Melveny, Robin completed an externship with the US Department of Justice in the Environment and Natural Resources Division.

Robin is also a graduate of University of Southern California Gould School of Law and Stanford University, where she earned a BA in Political Science, Art History, and Archeology. At USC Gould, Robin was President of the Gould Art Law Society. She has interned in the General Counsel’s Office of the Smithsonian Institution and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and is particularly interested in intersections between art and law as they relate to managing arts institutions, public access to the arts, and cultural heritage matters. Robin has published on the Antiquities Act and related cultural heritage and land management topics. In her free time, she volunteers as a docent at the Autry Museum of the American West in Los Angeles and serves as an ex-officio trustee for the Moab Museum in her hometown of Moab, UT.