David McGowan
Lyle L. Jones Professor of Competition and Innovation Law
University of San Diego School of Law
David McGowan is the Lyle L. Jones Professor of Competition and Innovation Law at the University of San Diego School of Law and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics.
His research and teaching focus on intellectual property, antitrust, and legal ethics, with particular emphasis on the economic analysis of IP policy and the intersection of intellectual property and competition law. His scholarship examines antitrust policy in software markets, network effects, standard-setting organizations, open-source software, patent misuse, copyright scope, website access rules, and the relationship between copyright and free-speech policy.
He previously taught at the University of Minnesota Law School, where he became a full professor. Before entering academia, he practiced law in San Francisco with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin, where he was elected a director. Earlier in his career, he clerked for Judge A. Raymond Randolph of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
His distinctions include election to the Order of the Coif and recognition for best student publication while in law school.
He earned a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and a bachelor’s from the University of California, Los Angeles.
