James Hicks

James’s research and teaching interests focus on intellectual property, innovation law, and empirical legal studies. His current projects draw on methods from statistics and data science to re-examine some of the core tenets of intellectual property theory, and to better understand how and when patents and copyrights incentivize the creation of new technological and creative works. James’s work has been published in leading law reviews and peer-reviewed journals, including the Northwestern Law Review and the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies.

James received a J.D. and a Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy from the University of California, Berkeley. He received a B.A. in Political Science from Reed College in Portland, Oregon. He previously served as Academic Fellow at Columbia Law School and the Fellow in Law, Business, and Innovation at Berkeley Law.