Professor Jonathan Barnett

February 1, 2021

Jonathan M. Barnett is the Torrey H. Webb Professor of Law at the University of Southern California School of Law. He is the author of Innovators, Firms, and Markets: The Organizational Logic of Intellectual Property (Oxford University Press 2021) and has published widely in scholarly journals on antitrust and intellectual property law and policy. He also comments and speaks regularly on legal, policy, and business developments in these areas. Prior to academia, he practiced corporate law at Cleary Gottlieb in New York.

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