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Erik Hovenkamp
Professor of Law
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218 Myron Taylor Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853-4901
218 Myron Taylor Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853-4901
Biography
Professor Erik Hovenkamp is an economist and legal scholar focusing on antitrust; IP and innovation policy; law and economics; and industrial organization. His work has been published in many leading law reviews and peer-reviewed economics journals, including the RAND Journal of Economics, the Yale Law Journal, and the Journal of Legal Studies, among others. His research articles have received numerous awards, including the American Antitrust Institute's Jerry S. Cohen award for the best antitrust article of 2022.
Hovenkamp earned a PhD in economics and a JD, both from Northwestern University. He joined the Cornell faculty in 2024. He was previously an associate professor at the USC Gould School of Law. From 2017 to 2019, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Law School and a visiting fellow in the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.
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- B.A., University of Iowa, 2009
- J.D., Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, 2016
- Ph.D., Northwestern University, 2017
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- Product Development with Lurking Patentees, RAND Journal of Economics (forthcoming 2025) (with Jorge Lemus and John Turner).
- Antitrust’s Refusal-to-Deal Doctrine: The Emperor Has No Clothes, Antitrust Chronicle (2024).
- Platform Exclusion of Competing Sellers, 49 Journal of Corporation Law 299 (2024) (invited).
- Restraints on Platform Differentiation, 25 Yale Journal of Law and Technology 271 (2023).
- Litigation with Inalienable Judgments, 52 Journal of Legal Studies 1 (2023), (with Steven C. Salop).
- Antitrust and Trademark Settlements, 85 Antitrust Law Journal 67 (2023) (with C. Scott Hemphill).
- Trinko Meets Microsoft: Leverage and Foreclosure in Platform Refusals to Deal, Antitrust Chronicle (2023).
- Post-Grant Adjudication of Drug Patents: Agency and/or Court?, 37 Berkeley Technology Law Journal 139 (2023) (with Arti Rai, Jorge Lemus, & Saurabh Vishnubhakat).
- The Antitrust Duty to Deal in the Age of Big Tech, 131 Yale Law Journal 1483 (2022).
- Antitrust Limits on Patent Settlements: A New Approach, 70 Journal of Industrial Economics 257 (2022) (with Jorge Lemus)
See all publications on SSRN.