David McGowan, center director
Lyle L. Jones Professor of Innovation and Competition Law
USD 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 competition policy. His IP scholarship addresses topics such as antitrust policy in software markets, the implications of network effects for IP policy, legal problems associated with standard-setting organizations, open-source software development, the Justice Department's antitrust suit against Microsoft, rules governing website access, patent misuse, the scope of copyright law and the relationship between copyright and free speech policy. READ MORE
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Paul Horton
USD Professor of Law
Professor Horton was articles editor of the Southern California Law Review and practiced law in Chicago with the Sonnenschein Firm for four years before joining the faculty in 1973. He supervises USD's Judicial Internship Program and teaches and writes in the areas of adjudication, family law, intellectual property and jurisprudence. Recent publications include two symposia of his students' work: "Contemporary Issues in California Family Law" and "Trademark Law at Millennium's Turn," both in the Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues.
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Orly Lobel
USD Professor of Law
Orly Lobel writes and teaches in the areas of employment law, administrative law, legal theory, torts, consumer law and trade secrets. Prior to coming to USD, she taught at Yale Law School and served as a fellow at the Harvard University Center for Ethics and the Professions, the Kennedy School of Government's Hauser Center for Non-Profit Research, and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. READ MORE
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Kris Panikowski
USD Adjunct Professor of Law and Lawyering Skills Instructor Kris Panikowski specializes in the areas of trade secret law, probate law, legal writing and legal research. She brings her experience as an attorney at the intellectual property specialty law firm, Fish & Richardson, to her classroom instruction. She has a particular interest in the intersection of trade secret and employment law, having made presentations and co-authoring articles in this area. She also employs her experience gained working as an attorney in the area of Wills & Trusts to her examination of the distribution of intellectual property in marital dissolution, probate, bankruptcy and alternative resolution proceedings.
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Lisa P. Ramsey
USD Professor of Law
Lisa Ramsey teaches and writes in the areas of intellectual property and international intellectual property. Before joining the faculty in 2004, she was an intellectual property litigation associate for four years at Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich (now DLA Piper) in San Diego. She graduated Order of the Coif from UCLA School of Law and was a judicial law clerk for Judge Rebecca Beach Smith of the United States District Court in the Eastern District of Virginia. READ MORE
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Ted Sichelman
USD Professor of Law
Ted Sichelman joined USD School of Law in 2009, after completing a Kauffman Foundation Fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law. His teaching and research interests include intellectual property, law & entrepreneurship, empirical legal studies, law & economics, and computational legal studies. READ MORE
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Thomas A. Smith
USD Professor of Law
Professor Smith was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, where he studied philosophy and economics, and was notes and topics editor of the Yale Law Journal. He clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and taught law at the University of Colorado and the University of California, Davis, before accepting a position as senior counsel and economist on President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisors. READ MORE |
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