Emerging Issues in Technology and the Law: A View from the Bench and Hot Topics in Patents, Antitrust and the Life Sciences
Prof. Robin Feldman
Arthur J. Goldberg Distinguished Professor of Law; Albert Abramson ’54 Distinguished Professor of Law Chair; Director of the Center for Innovation (C4i), UC Hastings Law
Professor Robin Feldman is a leading expert in health care and access to medicine, particularly as it relates to pharmaceutical competition and innovation. She received a B.A. from Stanford University and a J.D. from Stanford Law School, graduating the Order of the Coif and receiving the Urban A. Sontheimer Award for graduating second in the class. She served in the Articles Department of the Stanford Law Review. After graduation, Feldman clerked for The Honorable Joseph Sneed of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Professor Feldman is an award-winning scholar whose work has been called “absolutely remarkable” and a “must read.” She has published 4 books and more than 70 articles in law journals as well as in the American Economic Review, New England Journal of Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, and Health Affairs. In the 2021-2022 academic year, Feldman published 11 works, including 5 full-length law review articles, a book chapter, and 5 articles in peer-reviewed medical journals.
Professor Feldman frequently testifies before legislative and regulatory bodies. In the last year alone, she responded to 20 requests for testimony or technical assistance from congressional committees and state and federal regulators. Her work has been cited numerous times in the Congressional Record, by the White House, in various governmental reports, and in court proceedings. In one recent Supreme Court case, briefs in support of both sides cited to her work.
In addition to governmental proceedings on patents and pharmaceuticals, Professor Feldman participated in the GAO’s report to Congress on AI, the Army Cyber Institute’s threat casting exercise, and the National Academies of Sciences roundtable on AI and life sciences. She appears frequently in the press, giving 550 press interviews over the last 8 years.
Beyond her scholarship, Professor Feldman founded the Startup Legal Garage at UC Hastings, which provides free legal work to 60 early-stage technology and life science companies each year, with a focus on women and minority entrepreneurs. This year, 120 students applied for the 50 coveted spaces in the program.
Feldman is the Arthur J. Goldberg Distinguished Professor of Law, the Albert Abramson ’54 Distinguished Professor of Law Chair, and Director of the UC Hastings Center for Innovation (C4i). She has received the Rutter Prize for Excellence in Teaching, the 1066 Foundation Prize for Scholarship, and the Visionary Award from the UC Hastings Board of Directors.
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