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Christopher Jon Sprigman is the Murray and Kathleen Bring Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy at New York University School of Law. He joined NYU in 2013 from the University of Virginia School of Law. His expertise spans intellectual property, antitrust, comparative constitutional law, and law and economics. Sprigman teaches courses on copyright, antitrust, torts, and comparative constitutional law.
He holds a JD with honors from the University of Chicago Law School (1993), clerked for Judge Stephen Reinhardt (9th Circuit) and Justice Lourens H. W. Ackermann (South African Constitutional Court). Before academia, he worked as appellate counsel in the US Department of Justice's Antitrust Division (1999–2001), later becoming a partner at King & Spalding, and a fellow at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society.
His research focuses on how legal frameworks shape innovation and technology deployment, challenging conventional views on intellectual property. Notably, he contributed to shaping copyright and trademark law through widely cited scholarship. In 2015, the American Law Institute appointed him as Reporter for the Restatement of Copyright.
His work extends to interdisciplinary areas like privacy regulation, behavioral law & economics, and the intersection of innovation policy with antitrust. He co-authored *The Luxury Economy and Intellectual Property* (2024), exploring the paradox of luxury brands coexisting with counterfeit markets.
