Matthew Sag

Associate Professor

DePaul University College of Law

25 East Jackson Boulevard

Chicago, IL 60604

Biography

Matthew Sag is an Associate Professor of Law at DePaul University College of Law in Chicago, Illinois. Professor Sag 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 School of Law 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 and his recent publications include the California Law Review, the Northwestern Law Review and The Georgetown Law Review.

Curriculum Vitae

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Articles

Taking the Measure of Ideology: Empirically Measuring Supreme Court Cases, 98 The Georgetown Law Journal (forthcoming 2009) (with Tonja Jacobi) (ssrn) (Extended Discussion of Supreme Court Intellectual Property Cases)

Copyright and Copy-Reliant Technology 103 Northwestern University Law Review (forthcoming 2009) (ssrn) (bepress) (.pdf)

Ideology and Exceptionalism in Intellectual Property – An Empirical Study, 96 California Law Review (forthcoming 2009) (with Tonja Jacobi & Maxim Sytch) (.pdf) (ssrn)

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)