Erik Hovenkamp
Erik Hovenkamp’s research focuses on antitrust; IP and innovation policy; law and economics; and industrial organization. His work has been published in a range of leading law reviews and economics journals, including the Yale Law Journal; the Journal of Legal Studies; the Journal of Industrial Economics; and the University of Chicago Law Review, among many others.
Hovenkamp earned a PhD in economics and a JD, both from Northwestern University. Prior to joining the USC faculty in 2019, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Law School in the Project on the Foundations of Private Law and a Visiting Fellow at Yale Law School in the Information Society Project. In 2018 he was a Visiting Lecturer at Boston University School of Law.