Jonathan S. Masur is the John P. Wilson Professor of Law, the David and Celia Hilliard Research Scholar, and Director of the Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz Program in Behavioral Law, Finance and Economics at the University of Chicago Law School. His research and teaching interests include patent law, administrative law, and behavioral law and economics. He has published over 50 articles, including in the Yale Law Journal, the Stanford Law Review, and the Journal of Legal Studies, and his commentary has appeared in publications including the New York Times and the Washington Post. He is also the author of Happiness and the Law, published in 2015 by the University of Chicago Press. Masur has been repeatedly recognized for his outstanding teaching. He won the Graduating Students Award for Teaching Excellence in 2014, 2017, and 2022 and the Class Award in 2016, 2021, and 2023. Before joining the University of Chicago, Masur served as a law clerk for Chief Judge Marilyn Hall Patel of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California and for Judge Richard Posner of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. He earned a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.S. in Physics from Stanford University.
Lisa Larrimore Ouellette is the Deane F. Johnson Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, as well as a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. Her research and teaching interests focus on patent law and innovation. She has published over 40 articles, including in the Yale Law Journal, the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, and Science. She has also authored over 350 posts for her blog, Written Description, and her commentary has appeared in publications including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, TIME Magazine, and Slate. Ouellette is also an acclaimed teacher. She has received the John Bingham Hurlbut Award for Excellence in Teaching and was selected to help design and lead inclusive pedagogy training for other Stanford Law faculty. Before joining Stanford, Ouellette served as a law clerk for Judge Timothy Dyk of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and for Judge John Walker, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She earned a J.D. from Yale Law School, a Ph.D. in Physics from Cornell University, and a B.A. in Physics from Swarthmore College, and she has conducted scientific research at the Max Planck Institute, CERN, and NIST.
