Sepehr Shahshahani

Sepehr Shahshahani teaches civil procedure and intellectual property. His research focuses on technology and innovation policy, intellectual property, antitrust, and courts. He is interested in the role of procedure, legal institutions, and courts in shaping economic, political, and social outcomes, especially in promoting competition and innovation. These interests he pursues using a mix of methods, often integrating mathematical and statistical techniques with legal analysis. Trained as both a lawyer and a political scientist, he seeks to be faithful to the values of both disciplines by being rigorous about social scientific methodology and sensitive to legal nuance. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in leading peer-reviewed journals and law reviews, including the Journal of Law and Economics, the Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, the Journal of Legal Studies, the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, the Cornell Law Review, and the N.Y.U. Law Review.

Sepehr completed a Ph.D. at Princeton University, where he was a Charlotte Elizabeth Procter Honorific Fellow. Before embarking on an academic career, he was a litigator at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison LLP in New York and a law clerk to Judge William E. Smith of the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island and Judge Ronald Lee Gilman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.