Program on Law & Technology @ Columbia University School of Law

Associate Professor of Law

Biography

Scott Hemphill studies the overlapping roles of antitrust law, intellectual property, and sector-specific regulation in shaping the balance between innovation and competition. Recent work includes "Paying for Delay: Pharmaceutical Patent Settlement as a Regulatory Design Problem," New York University Law Review (2006), a critical look at the increasingly common practice by drug makers to pay rivals to abandon lawsuits that threaten the drug makers' patents.

Prior to joining the Columbia faculty, Hemphill clerked for Judge Richard Posner, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and Justice Antonin Scalia of the U.S. Supreme Court. He is a graduate of Harvard College, Stanford Law School, and the London School of Economics, where he studied as a Fulbright Scholar, and a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.