William M Burton Dept of French French literature, gender, sexuality, intellectual history, translation studies, Quebec studies, feminism
Ramona Naddaff Dept of Rhetoric rhetoric, aesthetics, theory of the novel, ancient Greek philosophy and literature, history of philosophy, contemporary French thought
Sonia Katyal School of Law artificial intelligence, law and technology, intellectual property law, contemporary art and law, gender and sexuality
Peter S. Menell School of Law intellectual property, property law, environmental law & policy, entertainment law, law and economics, federal courts
Chiyuma Elliott Dept of African American Studies poetry and poetics, African American literature, intellectual history - 1920s to the present, Black geography/cultural geography
Robert P. Merges School of Law antitrust, intellectual property, property rights, patent law, law and economics, copyright law, digital content, online contracts
Marianne Constable Dept of Rhetoric law and language, legal rhetoric and philosophy, social and political thought, Anglo-American legal history, continental philosophy, law and society
Elisa Tamarkin Dept of English American literature to 1900, American painting and visual arts, literature and philosophy, nineteenth century intellectual history
Laura E. Pérez Dept of Ethnic Studies Chicana/Latina feminist & queer literary, visual, performance arts, US women of color thought, decolonial aestetics and decolonial spiritualities
Judith Butler Dept of Comparative Literature critical theory, gender and sexuality studies, comparative literature, 19th and 20th century continental philosophy, social and political thought, philosophy and literature
Tejas Narechania School of Law administrative law, antitrust, artificial intelligence, intellectual property, law and technology, privacy and cybersecurity, telecommunications law, internet technology
Karen Feldman Dept of German critical theory, aesthetics, literary theory, Kant, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Arendt, Benjamin, 18th-20th century German thought, Hegel, Adorno
Cathryn Carson Dept of History science and society, data science, ethics, artificial intelligence, history of science and technology, history of physics, nuclear waste, intellectual history, interdisciplinarity
Raúl Coronado Dept of English Latina/o literary and intellectual history, histories of sexuality and of the academic disciplines, comparative history of writing in the colonial and 19th century Americas, modernity, postcolonialism
Samera Esmeir Dept of Rhetoric critical theory, Middle Eastern Studies, Legal and political thought, law and humanities, law and society, legal histories, colonialism and post-colonialism, anti-colonialism
David Teece Haas School of Business innovation, strategic management, competitive performance of firms in the global marketplace, organization of industry, innovation strategy, technology policy, antitrust policy, intellectual property
Patrice D. Douglass Dept of Gender and Women's Studies Black feminist theory, Afro-pessimism, feminist philosophy, gender and sexual violence, feminist legal theory, legal theory, political philosophy, Black political thought
Pamela Samuelson School of Law public policy, intellectual property law, new information technologies, traditional legal regimes, information management, copyright, software protection and cyberlaw, AI govenance
Henry Washington Jr. Dept of African American Studies 19th and 20th century African American literature, Black intellectual history, Black feminist theory, Black trans theory, Black visual culture and aestetics, performance theory
Pheng Cheah Dept of Rhetoric world literature, human rights, nationalism, legal philosophy, feminism, 18th-20th century continental philosophy & contemporary critical theory, postcolonial theory & anglophone postcolonial literatures, cosmopolitanism & globalization, social & political thought
Jennifer Urban School of Law intellectual property, privacy, copyright, artists' rights, free expression, notice and takedown, free and open source licensing, defensive patent licensing, DMCA, patent, how technical and policy design affect privacy and other social values
Albert Ruhi Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management freshwater ecology, biodiversity conservation, global change biology, Drought
Bryan D. McCloskey Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering electrochemical energy storage, electrocatalysis, molecular and ionic transport through polymers
Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby Dept of History of Art 18th through 20th century French, 18th through 20th century French and American art, history of slavery, colonialism, race, gender, visual and material culture