NEW FACULTY APPOINTMENTS

MEET USC GOULD’S NEWEST FACULTY APPOINTMENTS

Erik Hovenkamp

Assistant Professor of Law

EXPERTISE AREAS: Antitrust, patent law, and law and economics “I recently co-wrote two papers on antitrust and startup acquisitions by dominant firms. Other projects center on patent settlements and antitrust, the economics of antitrust litigation, and exclusionary practices in the context of technological standard-setting.”— Erik Hovenkamp

Erik Hovenkamp’s research focuses on antitrust and competition policy, patents and innovation policy, law and economics, and industrial organization. His work is cited in federal court opinions and has been published in a range of law and economics journals, including the University of Chicago Law Review, Review of Industrial Organization, Journal of Corporation Law, International Review of Law and Economics and Minnesota Law Review.

Hovenkamp earned a PhD in economics and a JD, both from Northwestern University. In 2017, he joined Harvard Law School as a postdoctoral fellow in the Project on the Foundations of Private Law and Yale Law School as a visiting fellow in the Information Society Project. In 2018, he was a visiting lecturer at Boston University School of Law.

Felipe Jiménez

Assistant Professor of Law and Philosophy EXPERTISE AREAS: Contracts, contract theory, private law theory, legal and political philosophy, comparative private law

“My research explores the intersection between legal, moral and political philosophy and private law, particularly the law of contracts. Private and contract law contain interesting philosophical puzzles, and they affect our interpersonal relationships within the market and beyond.” — Felipe Jiménez

Felipe Jiménez focuses his research in the areas of private law, legal and political philosophy, and comparative private law. He teaches contracts and private law theory. His dissertation, The Pluralism of Contract: A Theory of Contract Law, offers a novel account of contract law’s foundations and of their impact on contractual parties’ rights and duties as well as the theory of adjudication.

Jiménez graduated summa cum laude from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, and holds LLM (Legal Theory) and JSD degrees from New York University. Before joining USC Gould in 2019, he worked in the international arbitration practice of Covington and Burling LLP. He also practiced as a commercial litigator in Chile and taught contracts, torts and unjust enrichment at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez.