Program Chairs

Technology, Innovation, and Intellectual Property (TIIP)

Adam Mossoff is Co-Chair of the Technology, Innovation, and Intellectual Property program at the Classical Liberal Institute. He is an expert on intellectual property law, and he has published extensively on intellectual property law and innovation policy. His scholarship has been relied on by the U.S. Supreme Court and by federal agencies, and he has been invited five times to testify before the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives on intellectual property legislation. He has been invited to speak at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the U.S. Department of Justice, the Smithsonian Institution, and the National Academy of Sciences, among other public and private institutions. He frequently files amicus briefs in intellectual property cases; he has filed more than 25 briefs since in the past several years. In addition to his academic articles and legal briefs, his writings on intellectual property policy have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Forbes, Washington Times, Newsweek, and in other media outlets. A selection of his academic and legal scholarship can be downloaded here.


Bowman J. Heiden is Co-Chair of the Technology, Innovation, and Intellectual Property program at the Classical Liberal Institute. He is also Executive Director of the Tusher Strategic Initiative for Technology Leadership at UC Berkeley and Co-Director of the Center for Intellectual Property at the University of Gothenburg. He co-founded the Berkeley Deep Tech Innovation Lab, the Dynamic Competition Initiative, and ICM Global. With over 200 innovation projects tohis credit, his work bridges law, economics, and innovation policy. He holds degrees in engineering, technology management, and economics, and previously played professional basketball in Europe before focusing on innovation strategy and policy.

The Program on Organizations, Business, and Markets (OBM)


Seth Oranburg is Co-Chair of the Program on Organizations, Business, and Markets at the Classical Liberal Institute. He studies the effect of law on innovation and the economy. His research includes Internet shareholder activism, crowdfunding, venture capital and angel investing, smart contracts, network effects, information brokerage, and other commercial activities that relate to securities regulation, corporate finance, business associations, contracts, and related legal issues. He publishes his research in esteemed journals such as the Rutgers University Law Review, Cornell Journal of Law & Public Policy, and Fordham Journal of Corporate Law, and he has been interviewed by popular publications such as the The Wall Street Journal, AboveTheLaw.com, and CommPro.biz.


Robert Miller Co-Chair of the Program on Organizations, Business, and Markets at the Classical Liberal Institute. He is the Allison and Dorothy Rouse Chair in Law at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute and a research member of the European Corporate Governance Institute, as well as an Adjunct Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and an Affiliated Scholar at the James Wilson Institute on Natural Rights and the American Founding.