Brett Frischmann

Brett Frischmann is the Charles Widger Endowed University Professor in Law, Business and Economics at Villanova University. He came to Villanova from Cardozo Law School at Yeshiva University, where he was director of the Cardozo Intellectual Property and Information Law Program (2011-2016) and a professor of law.

He is an affiliated scholar of the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, an affiliated faculty member of the Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University, and a trustee for the Nexa Center for Internet & Society at Politecnico di Torino. Frischmann most recently served as the Microsoft Visiting Professor of Information and Technology Policy at Princeton University’s Center for Information and Technology Policy.

Prior to his appointment at Cardozo Law, Frischmann was on the faculty of the Loyola University Chicago School of Law from 2002 to 2010. He also has served as a visiting professor at numerous institutions, including Columbia Law School, Cornell Law School, Duke Law School, Fordham University School of Law and Syracuse University College of Law. In addition, he clerked for the Hon. Fred I. Parker 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and was an associate with Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington, D.C.

He received his bachelor’s in astrophysics and his master’s in earth sciences engineering, both from Columbia University. He earned his JD from Georgetown University Law Center.