Jonathan Barnett

Jonathan M. Barnett is the Torrey H. Webb Professor of Law and director of  the Media, Entertainment and Technology Law Program at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. He specializes in intellectual property, contracts, antitrust, and corporate law.

He joined USC Law in fall 2006 and was a visiting professor at New York University School of Law in fall 2010. Prior to academia, Barnett practiced corporate law as a senior associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in New York, specializing in private equity and mergers and acquisitions transactions. He was also a visiting assistant professor at Fordham University School of Law in New York.

A magna cum laude graduate of University of Pennsylvania, Barnett received an MPhil from Cambridge University and a JD from Yale Law School.