Salil K. Mehra
Charles B. Klein Professor in Law and Government
Temple University Beasley School of Law
Salil Mehra is the Charles B. Klein Professor in Law and Government at the Temple University Beasley School of Law and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. He also serves as inaugural co-director of the Institute for Law, Innovation and Technology and director of the LL.M. program in Asian law.
His research focuses on antitrust and competition law, technology, and law & economics.
Mehra has held multiple positions at Temple University, including professor of law, associate professor, and assistant professor. He also has served as a visiting professor at Keio University School of Law and at Temple University Japan.
Before entering academia, he was a litigation associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, where he handled antitrust, First Amendment, and takeover-defense litigation. Earlier in his career, he served as a trial attorney in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and clerked for Chief Judge Juan R. Torruella of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
His professional distinctions include serving as chair of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Antitrust and Economic Regulation and as a nongovernmental adviser to the International Competition Network. He also was an Abe Fellow of the Social Science Research Council and Japan’s Center for Global Partnership, and he received the Temple University Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching.
He earned a J.D. with honors from the University of Chicago Law School, a master’s in Asian studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and a bachelor’s from Harvard University.
