Jonathan S. Masur

Jonathan S. Masur is a Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. His scholarship bridges Patent Law, Intellectual Property, and Law and Economics, focusing on how legal frameworks interact with innovation, regulatory policy, and empirical legal studies. He has co-authored influential works on the social cost of carbon, AI in legal education, and patent licensing, often collaborating with scholars like Lisa Larrimore Ouellette and Amy R. Motomura.

His recent articles, including Can AI Hold Office Hours? (2025) and Disclosures Puzzles in Patent Law (2025), explore generative AI, legal pedagogy, and patent system efficiency. He has contributed to debates on cost-benefit analysis in regulatory contexts, such as Climate Regulation and the Limits of Cost-Benefit Analysis (2011) and Chevronizing Around Cost-Benefit Analysis (2025).