Jonathan Barnett
Torrey H. Webb Professor of Law
USC Gould School of Law
Jonathan 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 and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics.
His research focuses on intellectual property, antitrust, contracts, and corporate law, with particular attention to innovation policy and competitive strategy in technology markets.
He has also served as a visiting professor at New York University School of Law and earlier as a visiting assistant professor and adjunct professor at Fordham University School of Law.
Before entering academia, he practiced corporate law as a senior associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in New York, where he worked on private equity and mergers-and-acquisitions transactions.
He is the author of “The Big Steal: Ideology, Interest, and the Undoing of Intellectual Property” and “Innovators, Firms, and Markets: The Organizational Logic of Intellectual Property.”
Barnett earned a J.D. from Yale Law School, a master’s from Cambridge University, and a bachelor’s, magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania.
