Christopher J. Buccafusco

Christopher J. Buccafusco is the Edward & Ellen Schwarzman Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law. He joined the Duke Law faculty in 2022 from Yeshiva University’s Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where he was associate dean for faculty development, director of the Intellectual Property & Information Law Program, and a professor. At Cardozo Law he co-hosted an annual workshop on empirical methods in intellectual property law with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office and Northwestern University Law School.

Prior to his tenure at Cardozo, Buccafusco taught at Chicago-Kent College of Law at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He won the Student Bar Association’s professor of the year award in his first year on the faculty, and he later won a university-wide award for excellence in teaching. At Chicago-Kent, he co-founded the Center for Empirical Studies of Intellectual Property.

Buccafusco is a graduate of Georgia Tech and the University of Georgia School of Law and earned a master’s degree in the history of culture from the University of Chicago.