Robin
Feldman

Robin Feldman is the Arthur J. Goldberg Distinguished Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Innovation. She received a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University and a J.D. from Stanford Law School, graduating the Order of the Coif and receiving the Urban A. Sontheimer Award for graduating second in the class. Professor Feldman served in the Articles Department of the Stanford Law Review. After graduation, she clerked for The Honorable Joseph Sneed of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Professor Feldman received the Rutter Award for Teaching Excellence, the Visionary Award from the UC Hastings Board of Directors, and the 1066 Foundation Award for Scholarship. In 2015, she was honored by the American Lawyer Publications as one of the Women Leaders in Law & Tech, the sole academic to receive the honor.

Professor Feldman has published four books, Drugs, Money, & Secret Handshakes: The Unstoppable Growth of Prescription Drug Prices (Cambridge 2019); Drug Wars: How Big Pharma Raises Prices & Keeps Generics Off the Market (Cambridge 2017), Rethinking Patent Law (Harvard 2012) and The Role of Science in Law (Oxford 2009), as well as more than 50 articles in law journals including at Harvard, Yale, and Stanford, in the New England Journal of Medicine, and in the American Economic Review. Her work has been cited extensively by the White House, numerous federal and state agencies and members of Congress. Her IP/Antitrust work was cited by parties on both sides during a recent Supreme Court case. She has appeared frequently before committees of the US House & Senate, the California legislature, and federal agencies such as the FTC, DOJ, USPTO, and the National Academy of Sciences. She participated in the GAO’s report to Congress on Artificial Intelligence and in the Army Cyber Institute’s threatcasting exercise on weaponization of data.

Professor Feldman has chaired the Executive Committee of the Antitrust Section of the American Association of Law Schools. In 2012 she was elected to the American Law Institute, where she serves as an advisor to the ALI’s Restatement of Copyright Project.

Professor Feldman directs the UC Hastings Center for Innovation with its flagship program, the Startup Legal Garage. Startup Legal Garage has been named one of the most innovative law school programs in the country and recognized by the American Association of Law Schools as one of the nation’s “Innovative & Other Outstanding Programs.” Information on the Center, including regarding funding, can be found at innovation.uchastings.edu.