Matthew Sag

Assistant Professor

DePaul University College of Law

25 East Jackson Boulevard

Chicago, IL 60604

 

Biography

Matthew Sag is a professor of Law at DePaul University College of Law in Chicago, Illinois. Professor Sag has was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Northwestern University School of Law from 2004 to 2006 and a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia in 2008.

Prior to his academic career, Matthew Sag practiced as an intellectual property attorney in the United Kingdom with Arnold & Porter and in Silicon Valley, California with Skadden, Arps. Professor Sag earned his law degree with honors from the Australian National University and clerked for Justice Paul Finn of the Federal Court of Australia. Professor Sag's research focuses on the law and economics of intellectual property.

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Articles

Ideology and Exceptionalism in Intellectual Property – An Empirical Study, __ California Law Review __ (forthcoming) (with Tonja Jacobi & Maxim Sytch) (.pdf) (ssrn) (bepress)

The Effect of Ideology on Intellectual Property Cases (with Tonja Jacobi & Maxim Sytch) (under review) (The version presented at the American Law & Economics Association Annual Meeting 2008 is available on bepress)

Patent Reform and Differential Impact, 8 Minn. J. L. Sci. & Tech. 1 (2007) (with Kurt Rohde) (.pdf) (ssrn)

Beyond Abstraction, The Law And Economics Of Copyright Scope And Doctrinal Efficiency 81 Tulane L. Rev. 187 (2006) (.pdf) (ssrn)

God in the Machine: A New Structural Analysis of the Fair Use Doctrine in Copyright Law, 11 Mich. Telecomm. Tech. L. Rev. 381 (2005) (.pdf) (ssrn)

Invited Symposium Contributions

Twelve Year-Olds, Grandmothers, and Other Good Targets For The Recording Industry’s File Sharing Litigation, 4 NW. J. Tech. & Intell. Prop. 133 (2006) (ssrn)

Selected Courses

Copyright and Trademark Law

International Intellectual Property

E-Commerce

Innovation, Competition, and Intellectual Property