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.

Professor Mossoff teaches at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University. In addition to his positions at Scalia Law and at the Classical Liberal Institute, he is also Chair of the Intellectual Property Working Group of the Regulatory Transparency Project at the Federalist Society.  He is a Senior Fellow and Chair of the Forum for Intellectual Property at the Hudson Institute, a Visiting Intellectual Property Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Center for Intellectual Property Understanding. He is also a member of the Intellectual Property Rights Advisory Committee of ANSI and he has served as Chair and Vice-Chair of the Intellectual Property Committee of the IEEE-USA.

Professor Mossoff began his academic career as a John M. Olin Fellow in Law at Northwestern University School of Law, and he has taught at Michigan State University College of Law, University of San Diego School of Law, and Washington & Lee University School of Law. He graduated with Honors from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was a research assistant to Professor Richard Epstein and was awarded a Bradley Governance Fellowship. He also holds an MA in Philosophy from Columbia University, and a BA with High Distinction and High Honors in Philosophy from the University of Michigan.