Jennifer Keute

Jennifer Keute is an associate in the Litigation group. She earned her J.D. from University of California, Irvine (UCI), where she was president of the Intellectual Property Law Society. Jennifer served as a judicial extern for the Hon. Autumn D. Spaeth of the U.S. District Court in the Central District of California.

While in law school, Jennifer argued a case before the Ninth Circuit for a pro bono client as part of the UCI Ninth Circuit Appellate Litigation Clinic. She also received a Pro Bono Achievement Award for her work on behalf of domestic violence victims.

As part of her Ph.D. studies in archaeological science, Jennifer developed and optimized techniques for lipid extraction and separation on archaeological samples using supercritical fluids and chromatography-mass-spectrometry.

Publications

• “How Federal Protection of Native American Cultural Landscapes Limit Religious Freedoms,” UC Irvine Law Review (August 2025)
• “Recipes of Ancient Egyptian Kohl More Diverse Than Previously Thought,” Scientific Reports (April 2022)
• “Insights into Ceramic Use in Prehistoric Northwest China Obtained from Residue Analysis,” Bulletin for the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities (2021)
• “Molecular and Isotopic Evidence for Milk, Meat, and Plants in Prehistoric Eastern African Herder Food Systems,” Proceedings for the National Academy of Sciences (April 2020)