Christopher Sprigman
Law professor and author
Christopher Sprigman is a law professor at the University of Virginia who studies how legal rules affect innovation. He wrote The Knockoff Economy.
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About Christopher Sprigman
Christopher Sprigman, known as Chris, holds the Class of 1963 Research Professorship at the University of Virginia School of Law. His courses cover intellectual property, antitrust, competition policy and comparative constitutional law, and his research examines how legal rules shape innovation and the way new technologies are put to use. He earned his B.A. with honors from the University of Pennsylvania in 1988 and graduated with honors from the University of Chicago Law School in 1993. After that he clerked for Judge Stephen Reinhardt on the Ninth Circuit federal appeals court and for Justice Lourens H. W. Ackermann of South Africa's Constitutional Court. He also taught at the University of the Witwatersrand law school in Johannesburg. From 1999 to 2001 he worked as an appellate lawyer in the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice, including on U.S. v. Microsoft. He later became a partner at King & Spalding in Washington, D.C., before leaving practice in 2003 for a fellowship at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society. He joined the Virginia faculty in 2005.