A. Douglas Melamed

A. Douglas Melamed is a visiting fellow at Stanford Law School and a scholar-in-residence at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. His primary areas of expertise include antitrust and law & economics.

Previously, he was professor of the practice of law at Stanford Law School and later served as scholar-in-residence there. He also was the Florence Rogatz Visiting Professor in the practice of law at Yale Law School.

Before entering academia, he was senior vice president and general counsel at Intel Corp., where he oversaw the company’s legal, government-affairs, and corporate-affairs functions.

Earlier, he was a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of WilmerHale, where he co-chaired the Antitrust and Competition Practice Group and advised clients on litigation, regulatory matters, and antitrust enforcement.

He served in the U.S. Department of Justice as acting assistant attorney general in charge of the Antitrust Division and, before that, as principal deputy assistant attorney general.

Early in his career, he practiced law at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering and clerked for Judge Charles M. Merrill of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Melamed has received numerous honors, including the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Bay Area Corporate Counsel Awards, the Corporate Counsel of the Year award from Global Competition Review, the Chambers USA Award for Excellence, and the Edmund J. Randolph Award for outstanding service from the U.S. Department of Justice. He also has been recognized among the most influential figures in corporate governance.

He earned a bachelor’s from Yale University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.