Jonathan Barnett
Jonathan Barnett specializes in antitrust, competition, intellectual property, and corporate law, with a focus on innovation policy, strategy, and geopolitics. He is the author of The Big Steal: Ideology, Interest, and the Undoing of Intellectual Property (Oxford University Press 2024) and Innovators, Firms, and Markets: The Organizational Logic of Intellectual Property (Oxford University Press 2021). He is also a co-editor of Bringing Medicines to Life: How Intellectual Property Enables Innovation in the Life Sciences (forthcoming Cambridge University Press 2026) and 5G and Beyond: Intellectual Property and Competition Policy in the Internet of Things (Cambridge University Press 2023).
He has published widely in scholarly journals on legal, economic, and geopolitical matters relating to antitrust and competition, intellectual property, and innovation policy. He also publishes regularly with policy think tanks, including the American Enterprise Institute, Cato Institute, Center for Strategic & International Studies, Information Technology & Innovation Foundation, and International Center for Law & Economics.
He joined USC in 2006 and was a visiting professor at NYU in 2010. He also co-leads the Eira Initiative, a life sciences policy initiative at the Berkeley Policy Institute. Prior to academia, Barnett practiced corporate law at Cleary Gottlieb LLP in New York, specializing in private equity and mergers and acquisitions transactions. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Barnett received a MPhil from Cambridge University and a JD from Yale Law School.
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