Doug Lichtman

Doug Lichtman

Scholar Title: Professor of Law

Department: School of Law

Colleges / Universities: UCLA

Contact

405 Hilgard Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90095

Phone Number: (213) 452-6400

Email: lichtman@law.ucla.edu

Doug Lichtman focuses his teaching and research on topics relating to law and technology. His areas of specialty include patent and copyright law, telecommunications regulation, and information strategy and economics.

Professor Lichtman joined the faculty at UCLA School of Law in 2007 after a tenured teaching career at the University of Chicago. His work has been featured in numerous journals including the Journal of Law & Economics, the Journal of Legal Studies, the Yale Law Journal, and the Harvard Business Review. He co-authored Telecommunications Law and Policy, a textbook that investigates the federal regulatory regime applicable to broadcast television, cable television, radio, telephony, and the Internet. He also regularly writes in the popular press, with recent pieces appearing in the Los Angeles Times and the policy magazine Regulation.

Degrees

B.S.E. Duke University, 1994

J.D. Yale, 1997