GSPP Faculty
Suzanne Scotchmer
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Other Affiliations:
- Professor of Economics, Economics Department
Areas of Expertise/Interest:
- Economic Theory
- Intellectual Property
- Law and Economics
- Public Finance
Biographical Statement:
Suzanne Scotchmer’s academic interests range from legal issues such as intellectual property protection and rules of evidence in criminal trials to evolutionary game theory. She has also written on jurisdiction formation, tax enforcement, and antitrust issues. She serves on the Science, Technology and Economic Policy Board of the National Academies of Sciences and serves on other NAS committees. She has been scholar in residence at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and has served as an expert for the Department of Justice Antitrust Division. She is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. She has been Visiting Professor of law, economics and business at the University of Southern California, Visiting Professor of Economics at Moscow’s New School of Economics, the University of Auckland, and Université de Paris I (Sorbonne), and Distinguished Olin Visiting Professor of Law and Economics at the University of Toronto. In the Fall of 2004 she delivered the Arne Ryde lectures at University of Lund in Sweden. She was a Hoover National Fellow at Stanford University, and an Olin Fellow at Yale Law School. She begain her teaching career at the department of economics at Harvard University, and returned to Berkeley, where she received her graduate education, in 1986.
