F. Scott Kieff
Stevenson Bernard Professor of Law
George Washington University Law School
F. Scott Kieff is the Stevenson Bernard Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics.
His research and teaching examine the law & economics and political economy of innovation, including intellectual property, antitrust, trade, finance, entrepreneurship, corporate governance, technology policy, and economic development.
Kieff also serves as faculty director of the law school’s technology and innovation initiatives. He previously served as a commissioner of the U.S. International Trade Commission before returning to teaching.
Earlier, he was a senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, where he worked on projects addressing the commercialization of innovation and property rights. He was previously a professor at Washington University in St. Louis School of Law, with a secondary appointment in the School of Medicine’s Department of Neurological Surgery. He also held visiting and research appointments at Northwestern, Chicago, Stanford, and Harvard law schools, and was affiliated with the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center at the Max Planck Institute.
Before entering academia, Kieff practiced as a trial and patent lawyer at Pennie & Edmonds in New York, Jenner & Block in Chicago, and McKool Smith in Washington, D.C. He clerked for Judge Giles S. Rich of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
He has been elected to the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Academia Europaea, and was named one of the nation’s “Top 50 Under 45” by IP Law & Business.
Kieff earned a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He also completed undergraduate study in molecular biology, with training in microeconomics, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
