Oppenheim Professor of Law
The George Washington University Law School
Michael B. Abramowicz specializes in law and economics, spanning areas including intellectual property, civil procedure, corporate law, administrative law, and insurance law. His research has been published in the California Law Review,…
MoreExecutive Director
Ian Adams joined ICLE as Executive Director in April 2020. He is responsible for ICLE’s strategic planning, programmatic implementation, and organizational growth. Ian’s substantive policy work focuses on the disruptive impact…
MoreChief Economist
Brian Albrecht is Chief Economist of the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE), which he joined in February 2022. In his role, he is responsible for the application…
More
Director of Research, Center for AI and Patent Analysis
Carnegie Mellon University
Dean Alderucci is the director of research for the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Patent Analysis at Carnegie Mellon University. His research involves extracting knowledge from the text of legal and…
More
Scholar in Residence
University of Colorado Leeds School of Business
Eric Alston’s research and teaching is centered in the field of institutional and organizational analysis, which draws primarily from the disciplines of economics, law, and political science as well as other…
MoreDirector of Competition Policy
Dirk Auer manages ICLE’s work on competition and antitrust issues in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, and abroad. Dirk joined ICLE as a Senior Fellow in October 2018 and…
MoreSenior Scholar
Mikołaj Barczentewicz joined ICLE as senior scholar in January 2022. Mikołaj is an associate professor of law and the research director of the Law and Technology Hub at the University of…
More
Director, Centre for Law and Economics
Australian National University College of Law
George is Director of the Centre for Law and Economics at the Australian National University, and President of the Australian Law and Economics Association. He was…
More
Torrey H. Webb Professor of Law
USC Gould School of Law
Jonathan Barnett is director of the University of Southern California Gould School of Law’s Media, Entertainment and Technology Law Program and the author of Innovators, Firms, and Markets: The Organizational Logic…
MoreNonresident Scholar
Roger Bate researches international and domestic health policy, with a special interest in medicines. He has a PhD in applied economics from Cambridge University. His writings have appeared in, among others, the
More
Nicholas J. Chabraja Professor
Northwestern University Law School
Bernard Black is Nicholas D. Chabraja Professor at Northwestern University, with positions in the Pritzker School of Law, the Kellogg School of Management, Department of Finance, and the Institute for Policy…
More
Professor of Law
Pepperdine Caruso School of Law
Professor Babette Boliek joined the Pepperdine faculty in 2009 and conducts research in the fields of antitrust law, telecommunications, privacy law, and sports law. As an expert in the…
More
Dean and Chair of Economics, HKU Business School
University of Hong Kong
Hongbin Cai received his B.A. in Mathematics at Wuhan University, his M.A. in Economics at Peking University, and his Ph.D. in Economics at Stanford University. He is currently Professor in Economics…
More
Jean Monnet Professor of EU Innovation Policy
University of Basilicata
Giuseppe Colangelo is the Jean Monnet Professor of EU Innovation Policy and an associate professor of law and economics at the University of Basilicata; adjunct professor of markets, regulations and law,…
More
Herman F. Selvin Professor of Law
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
Robert Cooter, a pioneer in the field of law and economics, was educated at Swarthmore College, Oxford University, and Harvard University. After receiving his Ph.D. in economics in 1975, he joined…
More
Professor of Economics
University of Bologna
Vincenzo Denicolò is a Professor of Economics at the University of Bologna, and a Research Fellow at CEPR. He works mainly in the field of industrial organisation and in particular on…
More
Robert C. Taylor Professor of Economics
University of Virginia
Kenneth Elzinga is the Robert C. Taylor Chair in Economics at the University of Virginia. His major research interest is antitrust economics, with a focus on pricing strategy and market definition.…
More
Professor of Public Economics
University of Bologna
Luigi Franzoni is a Professor of Public Economics at the Faculty of Economics of Bologna. His research areas include the economic theory of settlements, law enforcement, tax amnesties, intellectual property and…
More
William C. Oehmig Chair in Free Enterprise and Entrepreneurship
Vanderbilt University
Luke Froeb is the William C. Oehmig Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship and Free Enterprise at the Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt. He came to Vanderbilt after receiving his Ph.D. in…
MoreSenior Scholar
Eric Fruits is a senior scholar at the International Center for Law & Economics and an adjunct professor of economics at Portland State University. Eric is…
More
Herman F. Selvin Professor of Law
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
More
Senior Scholar, Competition Policy
Before joining ICLE, Dan was an Attorney Advisor in the FTC’s Office of Policy Planning, where he worked on competition issues in health care and technology markets and, more broadly, on…
More
Senior Circuit Judge
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
Douglas H. Ginsburg is one of the most prominent scholars of law and economics currently on the bench. He has been a Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the…
More
Dean and Carl Mason Franklin Chair in Law
USC Gould School of Law
Andrew T. Guzman joined the USC Gould School of Law as dean and Carl Mason Franklin Chair in Law, and Professor of Law and Political Science on July 1, 2015. An…
More
The John G. McCoy-Banc One Professor of Marketing
Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Wesley R. Hartmann is the John G. McCoy-Banc One Corporation Professor of Marketing at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Professor Hartmann’s research empirically analyzes questions in marketing and economics. He studies…
More
H.H. Macaulay Endowed Professor of Economics
Clemson University
Thomas Hazlett holds the H.H. Macaulay Endowed Chair in Economics at Clemson, conducting research in the field of Law and Economics and specializing in the Information Economy, including the analysis of…
More
William F. Podlich Professor of Economics and George R. Roberts Fellow
Claremont McKenna College
More
Michael J. Marks Professor of Law
University of Chicago Law School
M. Todd Henderson is the Michael J. Marks Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. Professor…
More
Chair of the Department of Economics
University of Mississippi
Joshua R. Hendrickson is chair of the Department of Economics and an associate professor of economics at the University of Mississippi. His research interests are at the intersection of monetary economics,…
More
Emeritus Dean and Professor of Law
Lewis & Clark Law School
Professor Huffman joined the law school faculty in 1973, was appointed Acting Dean in 1993 and Dean in 1994, and returned to full time teaching in 2006. Born in Fort Benton,…
MoreDirector of Law & Economics Programs
Justin (Gus) Hurwitz is the Director of Law & Economics Programs at ICLE. He is also a Senior Fellow and Academic Director of the Center for Technology, Innovation, and Competition at…
More
William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor and Professor of Law
Boston University School of Law
Widely recognized in the areas of law and economics, Keith Hylton has published numerous articles in American law journals and peer-reviewed law and economics journals. His textbook, Antitrust Law: Economic Theory…
MoreProfessor of LawDrake University Law School
Jeremy Kidd is a law and economics scholar who specializes in public choice theory. His primary research focus is on how special interests use the various mechanisms of government to achieve…
More
Fred C. Stevenson Research Professor of Law
The George Washington University Law School
F. Scott Kieff joined the faculty at the George Washington University Law School in the summer of 2009, after serving on the faculty at Washington University in Saint Louis, where he…
More
Research Professor
University of Colorado Denver
Lynne Kiesling is an economist focusing on regulation, market design, and the economics of digitization and smart grid technologies in the electricity industry. She is a Research Professor in the School…
More
Mary and Daniel Loughran Professor of Law
University of Virginia Law School
Edmund Kitch joined the faculty of Virginia Law in 1982. His scholarly and teaching interests include agency, corporations, securities, antitrust, industrial and intellectual property, economic regulation and legal and economic history.…
More
W. W. Caruth Endowed Chair
Hankamer School of Business
Peter G. Klein is W. W. Caruth Endowed Chair, Professor of Entrepreneurship, and Chair of the Department of Entrepreneurship and Corporate Innovation at Baylor University’s Hankamer School of Business. He also serves…
More
Professor Emeritus
UCLA Department of Economics
Benjamin Klein is internationally recognized as a powerful force in the area of antitrust economics. In addition to his role as a Professor of Economics at UCLA, he has also taught…
More
Charles A. Heimbold, Jr. Professor of Law
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Jonathan Klick’s work focuses on identifying the causal effects of laws and regulations on individual behavior using cutting-edge econometric tools. Specific topics addressed by Klick’s work include the relationship between abortion…
More
Paige V. and Henry N. Butler Chair in Law and Economics
Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University
Bruce H. Kobayashi is the Paige V. and Henry N. Butler Chair in Law and Economics at Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University. Professor Kobayashi’s background in economics makes him a vital part…
More
Wall Chair in Corporate Law and Governance
University of Missouri Law School
More
Editor-in-Chief and Senior Fellow
R.J. Lehmann joined ICLE as Executive Editor and Senior Fellow in November 2020. He is responsible for crafting and executing ICLE’s editorial strategy and managing its publication calendar. R.J. was previously…
More
Ashbel Smith Professor of Economics
University of Texas at Dallas
Stan Liebowitz, an economist who has studied copyright issues since 1979, is one of the world’s authorities on the economic impact of piracy, downloads and file sharing in the digital domain.…
More
Professor of Law
Northwestern School of Law
Katherine Litvak’s areas of expertise include venture capital, private equity, corporate and securities law, and corporate finance. She has previously served as an assistant professor at the University of Texas School…
More
A. Robert Noll Distinguished Professor of Law
Penn State Law School
Professor John Lopatka joined Penn State Law from the University of South Carolina School of Law, where he was the Solomon Blatt Professor of Law. He began his full-time teaching career…
More
Associate Professor of Law
Notre Dame Law School
Maria Maciá is an economist whose research considers the regulation of corporations and valuation issues through an empirical approach. She considers the effects of regulations that…
MorePresident and Founder
Geoffrey A. Manne is the president and founder of the International Center for Law and Economics (ICLE), a nonprofit, nonpartisan research center based in Portland, Oregon. He is also…
MoreAssociate Professor of Law at IE University Law School.
Professor Francisco Marcos is an expert in economic analysis of law, commercial and competition law, he teaches law at IE Business School (Spain). He holds a law degree from Universidad de…
More
Professor of Economics
North Carolina State University
Stephen E. Margolis is a Research Fellow at The Independent Independent and Professor and Chairman of the Department of Economics, College of Management, North Carolina State University. Professor Margolis received his…
More
Senior Managing Director
Ankura Consulting Group
Donald L. Martin, PhD, is a Senior Managing Director at Ankura Consulting Group based in Washington, DC. He has more than 30 years of experience serving as an economic consultant and…
More
Senior Research Fellow
French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)
Frédéric is a Senior Research Fellow at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and affiliate researcher of the French Economic Observatory (OFCE – Sciences Po. Paris). He is a member…
More
Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy
Ross School of Business University of Michigan
Scott E. Masten’s research focuses on issues at the intersection of law, economics and organization, and his work has made him a leading scholar in the area of transaction cost economics.…
More
Visiting Professor
Australian National University
Ian McEwin is an Australian lawyer with a Ph.D. in Economics, both from the Australian National University, who specialises in Southeast Asian competition law and economics. In 1985 he was appointed…
More
Lyle L. Jones Professor of Competition and Innovation Law
University of San Diego School of Law
Professor McGowan teaches and writes about intellectual property (IP), antitrust and legal ethics. He is particularly interested in the economic analysis of IP policy and the intersection of IP laws and…
More
Charles Klein Professor of Law and Government
Temple University Beasley School of Law
Professor Salil Mehra joined the Temple Law faculty in 2000. His research focuses on antitrust/competition law and technology. A sample of Professor Mehra’s publications can be found below and on his…
More
Professor of Law
University of Wyoming College of Law
George Mocsary joined the University of Wyoming in July 2019. Prior to his appointment at Wyoming, he served as an Assistant Professor of Law at the Southern Illinois University School of…
More
Professor
Texas A&M University Bush School of Government & Public Service
Professor Morriss received his AB from Princeton University, his JD and Master of Public Affairs from the University of Texas at Austin, his PhD in economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology,…
More
Professor of Law
Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University
Adam Mossoff is Professor of Law at Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University. He is a founder of the Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property, and is now a…
More
Dean and McKenzie Professor
Florida State University College of Law
Dean O’Hara O’Connor is a noted scholar in several areas, including conflict of laws, arbitration and the law market. Prior to joining Florida State in 2016, Dean O’Hara O’Connor taught at…
More
Senior Research Fellow
Mercatus Center at George Mason University
Liya Palagashvili is a Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. She is also a research fellow at the Classical Liberal Institute at NYU Law. Previously, Liya…
More
Distinguished Professor, School of Business and Department of Economics
National University of Singapore
More
Co-Director, Schumpeter Project on Competition Policy
Information Technology & Innovation Foundation
Aurelien Portuese is co-director of the Schumpeter Project on Competition Policy, which advances a dynamic framework for competition policy in which innovation is a central concern for…
More
Professor of Law and Economics
Yale Law School
George L. Priest is the Edward J. Phelps Professor of Law and Economics and Kauffman Distinguished Research Scholar in Law, Economics, and Entrepreneurship at Yale Law School. An internationally recognized expert,…
MoreSenior Scholar, Competition Policy
Lazar is Senior Scholar for Competition Policy at the International Center for Law & Economics, and Adjunct Professor of Law at IE University. Lazar is a qualified lawyer and has worked in…
More
Sterling Professor of Law
Yale Law School
Roberta Romano is Sterling Professor of Law and Director of the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law. Her research has focused on state competition for corporate charters, the political…
More
Emeritus Professor
Emory University
Professor Rubin’s main area of research is Law and Economics. He has written on many aspects of this subject. Recent papers have examined the effects of tort reform on death rates…
More
Assistant Teaching Professor, Brandmeyer Center for Applied Economics
University of Kansas
More
Associate Professor of Law
University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law
Christopher J. Ryan Jr. is an associate professor of law at the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law and an affiliated scholar at the American Bar Foundation. Dr. Ryan teaches…
MoreAssociate Professor of Law, Vrije Universiteit
Dr. Thibault Schrepel, LL.M., is an Associate Professor of Law at VU Amsterdam University, and a Faculty Affiliate at Stanford University CodeX Center where he has created…
MoreSenior Scholar, Innovation Policy
Ben Sperry is senior scholar of innovation policy at the International Center for Law & Economics. His research focuses on the intersection of civil liberties and government regulation, including in the…
MoreDirector of Innovation Policy
Kristian Stout, ICLE’s Director of Innovation Policy is an expert in intellectual property, antitrust, telecommunications, and Internet governance. Kristian has been a Fellow at the Internet Law & Policy Foundry, as…
More
Professor of Law
University of Munich
Professor Straus is a professor of law at the Universities of Munich and Ljubljana, and director of the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law in Munich. He…
More
Associate Professor, Division of Applied Sciences
University of Missouri
More
Thomas W. Tusher Professor in Global Business
Berkley Haas School of Business
David J. Teece is Professor of the Graduate School, the Thomas W. Tusher Professor in Global Business, and Faculty Director of the Tusher Center for The Management of Intellectual Capital at…
MoreJohn and Mae Calamos Dean Endowed Chair, Stuart School of Business at Illinois Tech
Liad Wagman is the John and Mae Calamos Dean Endowed Chair and professor of economics at the Stuart School of Business at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Wagman is a competition…
More
Professor of Politics and Government
University of Puget Sound
Seth Weinberger is Professor of Politics and Government at the University of Puget Sound. He received his B.A. (1993) in political philosophy from the University of Chicago, an M.A. (1995) in…
More
Professor of Economics
The University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill
Jonathan W. Williams received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Virginia in 2009. Before joining UNC, he was an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Georgia’s Terry…
More
Associate Professor of Finance
National School of Development, Peking University
Dr. Zhaofeng Xue is Research Fellow and Co-Director of the Institute for Law and Economics, National School of Development, Peking University. Dr. Xue received his Ph.D. in economics from George Mason…
More
John H. Chestnut Professor of Law, Communication, and Computer & Information Science
University of Pennsylvania Law School
More
Associate Professor of Law
Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University
John M. Yun is an Associate Professor of Law at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School and the Deputy Executive Director of the Global Antitrust Institute (GAI). He was previously…
MoreProfessor, Economic Analysis of Law, University of Lima
Mario Zúñiga is a professor of economic analysis of law at the University of Lima and at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Previously, Mario was a commissioner of Peru’s Commission…
More
Foundation Professor of Law
Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University
More