Christopher R. Leslie

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Positions:
Professor, Law School at University of California, Irvine
Irvine, California

Experience & Areas of Interest:

After graduating from law school and being elected to the Order of the Coif, Christopher Leslieclerked for Judge Diarmuid O’Scannlain on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and practiced antitrust law and complex business litigation in San Francisco at Pillsbury Madison & Sutro, and Heller Erhman.
He has been a Professor of Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law and a Visiting Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, the University of Texas School of Law and N.Y.U. School of Law. He is the past Chair of the Antitrust Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) and is an editor for the Antitrust Law Journal. Professor Leslie is the author of the casebook ANTITRUST LAW AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS (Oxford University Press). He is a co-author of the leading treatise in that field, IP AND ANTITRUST: AN ANALYSIS OF ANTITRUST PRINCIPLES APPLIED TO INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW (2nd Edition 2009, with Hovenkamp, Janis, and Lemley).
His scholarship focuses on antitrust law, the intersection of antitrust law and intellectual property rights, sexual orientation discrimination, and class action settlements.

Education:
J.D. Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley, Order of the Coif
Masters in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University B.A. in Economics and Political Science from UCLA.