Doug Melamed is a Visiting Fellow at the Stanford Law School and Scholar in Residence at the USC Gould School of Law. He was Professor of the Practice of Law at Stanford from 2014 until 2022 and Scholar in Residence there from 2022 to 2023.

From 2009 until 2014, he was Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Intel Corporation and was responsible for overseeing Intel’s legal, government affairs, and corporate affairs departments.

Prior to joining Intel, he was a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of WilmerHale, a global law firm in which he served as a chair of the Antitrust and Competition Practice Group. He joined WilmerHale’s predecessor in 1971.

From 1996 to 2001, Melamed served in the U.S. Department of Justice as Acting Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Antitrust Division and, before that, as Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General.

He has written numerous widely-cited articles on antitrust law, patent law, and law and economics. He was the Florence Rogatz Visiting Professor in the Practice of Law at Yale Law School in 2017. He received his BA at Yale and his JD at Harvard.