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Robin
Feldman

Arthur J. Goldberg Distinguished Professor of Law, Albert Abramson ’54 Distinguished Professor of Law Chair, and Director of the Center for Innovation

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Biography

Robin Feldman’s work focuses on the role of intellectual property law in technology and innovation; drug patents, pricing, and health care law; and artificial intelligence and data. She is the Arthur J. Goldberg Distinguished Professor of Law, the Albert Abramson ’54 Distinguished Professor of Law Chair, and Director of the UC Hastings Center for Innovation (C4i).

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). She has published 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 op-ed articles have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, The Hill, and many others.

Professor Feldman’s 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 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 threat casting exercise on weaponization of data. She is also an elected member and appointed advisor to the American Law Institute’s Restatement of Copyright Project.

Feldman directs the UC Hastings Center for Innovation (C4i) 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.” C4i also pursues research in health care law and identifies how the system can be improved while protecting innovation and ensuring that markets are fair, efficient, and transparent.

Feldman has won numerous awards, including 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 Tech Law, the sole academic to receive the honor.

Education

Stanford Law School, J.D.

  • Urban A. Sontheimer Award
  • Order of the Coif
  • Stanford Law Review, Articles Department
  • Hilmer Oehlmann Jr. Prize

Stanford University, B.A.

  • Phi Beta Kappa
  • Degree Awarded with Distinction
  • Dean’s Award for Community Service Law

Clerk, The Honorable Joseph T. Sneed, U. S. Court of Appeals, 9thCir

Awards and Honors

  • Leon I. Goldberg Memorial Lecture Award, 2020
  • American Lawyer Publications, Women Leaders in Tech Law, 2016
  • American Law Institute, Elected Member and Appointed Advisor to Restatement of Copyright Project, 2015
  • Visionary Award from the UC Hastings Board of Directors, 2012
  • Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching, UC Hastings, 2009
  • 1066 Foundation Award for Scholarship, UC Hastings, 2004

Information on the Center for Innovation, including funding sources, can be found at innovation.uchastings.edu.

Expertise

  • Food and Drug Law
  • Gene Patenting and Privacy
  • Intellectual Property
  • Law & Digital Technology
  • Pharmacy Law
  • Startup & Innovation Law

Education

  1. Stanford Law School

    J.D., Law

  2. Stanford University

    B.A., Undergraduate Studies

Accomplishments

  1. Leon I. Goldberg Memorial Lecture Award 2020

    Bestowed by the University of Chicago’s Committee on Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacogenomics, for Feldman's "seminal" and "consistently high impact" work in pharmaceutical policy and law.

  2. Appointed as Advisor to the American Law Institute Restatement of Copyright 2015 to Present

    Elected Member of American Law Institute, 2012

  3. Women Leaders in Law & Technology 2016

    Honored by the American Lawyer Publications as one of the Women Leaders in Law & Technology.

  4. Visionary Award 2012

    Presented in 2012 by the UC Hastings Board of Directors for founding the Innovation Law Clinics and the Law & Bioscience Project.

  5. Elected Member 2011

    Elected to the American Law Institute; Appointed as advisor to the ALI's Restatement of Copyright Project

  6. William Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching 2009

    Awarded by the University of California at Hastings.

  7. 1066 Foundation Award for Scholarship 2004

    Awarded by the University of California at Hastings.

Selected Scholarship

  1. The Devil is in the Tiers Forthcoming

    Oxford Journal of Law and the Biosciences

  2. Perverse Incentives: Why Everyone Prefers High Drug Prices -- Except for Those Who Pay the Bills 2020

    Harvard Journal on Legislation

  3. Naked Price and Pharmaceutical Trade Secret Overreach 2020

    Yale Journal of Law & Technology

  4. The Cancer Curse: Regulatory Failure by Success 2020

    Columbia Science and Technology Law Review

  5. May Your Drug Price Be Evergreen 2018

    Oxford Journal of Law and the Biosciences

  6. Do Patent Licensing Demands Mean Innovation? 2015

    Iowa Law Review

  7. The America Invents 500: Effects of Patent Monetization Entities on US Litigation 2012

    Duke Law & Technology Review

  8. The Giants Among Us 2012

    Stanford Technology Law Review

  9. Copyright and Open Access at the Bedside 2011

    New England Journal of Medicine

  10. The Role of Science in Law 2009

    Oxford University Press

  11. The Open Source Biotechnology Movement: Is it Patent Misuse? 2004

    Minnesota Journal of Law Science & Technology

  12. The Insufficiency of Antitrust Analysis for Patent Misuse 2003

    Hastings Law Journal

Courses

  1. Science to Lawyer
  2. Startup Legal Garage: Patent
  3. IP Concentration Seminar
  4. Startup Legal Garage: BioTech

Links

  1. Publications
  2. Law Review Articles on SSRN
  3. Center for Innovation
  4. Startup Legal Garage
  5. NEW: Evergreen Drug Patent Search Database

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