Stan J. Liebowitz
Ashbel Smith Professor of Economics
University of Texas at Dallas
Stan J. Liebowitz is the Ashbel Smith Professor of Managerial Economics at the University of Texas at Dallas and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. He also directs the Center for the Economic Analysis of Property Rights and Innovation.
His research focuses on copyright, intellectual property, digital piracy, file-sharing, antitrust in high-technology markets, and business strategies such as bundling. His work on file-sharing and the recording industry was cited in a concurring opinion of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Before holding the Ashbel Smith chair, Liebowitz served as academic associate dean and professor of managerial economics at the University of Texas at Dallas and earlier as an associate professor there. Prior to that, he was an associate professor of economics at North Carolina State University and a John M. Olin Faculty Fellow in Law & Economics at the University of Chicago. He began his academic career as an assistant professor at the University of Rochester and at the University of Western Ontario.
He is the author or co-author of several books, including “Winners, Losers & Microsoft: Competition and Antitrust in High Technology,” “Rethinking the Network Economy: The Real Forces that Drive the Digital Marketplace,” and “The Economics of Qwerty.”
Liebowitz is a past president of the Society for Research on Copyright Issues and a fellow of the Independent Institute.
He earned a Ph.D. and a master’s in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a bachelor’s from Johns Hopkins University.
