Robin Feldman

About Robin Feldman

Professor Robin Feldman is one of the nation’s leading experts in the complex area of intellectual property and pharmaceutical law. Her work illuminates how and why these practices operate in the pharmaceutical industry’s best interest more often than the public’s and proposes solutions for their improvement. Her current research focuses on drug patents, drug pricing and access, drug markets, and trade secrets. Her work also focuses on the role of intellectual property law in technology, innovation, artificial intelligence, and data. Feldman is the Arthur J. Goldberg Distinguished Professor of Law, the Albert Abramson ’54 Distinguished Professor of Law Chair, and Director of the UC College of the Law SF Center for Innovation (C4i). Her books, Drugs, Money, & Secret Handshakes (Cambridge 2019) and Drug Wars (Cambridge 2017), have been influential and well-lauded. Feldman has published more than 60 scholarly articles in law journals, including at Harvard, Yale, and Stanford, in The New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, and in the American Economic Review. Her op-ed articles have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, The Hill, and many others. She also authored Rethinking Patent Law and The Role of Science in Law. Feldman’s work has been cited extensively by the White House, numerous federal and state agencies, members of Congress, and by both sides during the same Supreme Court case. She regularly provides expert testimony and guidance about the pharmaceutical industry, technology, and intellectual property before committees of the US House & Senate, the California legislature, and federal agencies such as the FTC, DOJ, USPTO, and the National Academy of Sciences. Feldman participated in the GAO’s report to Congress on Artificial Intelligence and in the Army Cyber Institute’s threat casting exercise on the weaponization of data. She is an elected member and appointed advisor to the American Law Institute’s Restatement of Copyright Project.Feldman is the founder and director of the UC Law SF Center for Innovation (C4i), including its flagship programs, Startup Legal Garage and the AI Law & Innovation Institute. C4i promotes data-driven law-making and seeks to empower policymakers and regulators to make informed, evidence-based decisions, particularly at the intersection of law and technology. She has also won numerous awards.Specialties: Intellectual Property, Biotechnology, AI and the Law, Healthcare Law, Drug Prices

Experience

1. Forbes Technology Council Member

   Forbes Technology Council

   Aug 2024 — Present

Education

• Stanford University

  B.A.

  1979 — 1983

• Stanford Law School

  J.D.

  1986 — 1989