Erik Hovenkamp

Erik Hovenkamp is a professor of law at Cornell Law School, where he also serves as director of Competition Policy Research. His research focuses on antitrust and competition policy, patents and innovation policy, law & economics, and industrial organization.

Before joining Cornell, Hovenkamp taught at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law, where he served first as an assistant professor and then as an associate professor. Earlier in his career, he was a Qualcomm Postdoctoral Fellow in Private Law and Intellectual Property at Harvard Law School and a visiting fellow with the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. He also held a visiting lectureship at Boston University School of Law.

Hovenkamp’s work has earned several honors, including the American Antitrust Institute’s Jerry S. Cohen Award for the best antitrust article of 2022. He has also received the Rutter Distinguished Teaching Award.

He holds a Ph.D. in economics and a J.D., both from Northwestern University. He earned a bachelor’s from the University of Iowa, graduating with highest distinction.