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Biography

Tabrez Ebrahim is an Associate Professor of Law at Lewis & Clark Law School. His primary areas of research include patent law, law and technology, and business law. His scholarship focuses on intellectual property and innovation, the effect of digital technology on corporations and society, and the use of computational methods for legal analysis. He has additional research interests in property law, comparative law, and Islamic law, and he holds an international appointment as a Visiting Professor at the Jordan University of Science & Technology. He has published articles in BYU Law Review, Seton Hall Law Review, Penn State Law Review, Lewis & Clark Law Review, Georgia State Law Review, Journal of Corporation Law (with the University of Iowa College of Law) and IP Theory (with Indiana University Maurer School of Law), among others, and has authored book chapters with Cambridge University Press and encyclopedia contributions with Edward Elgar Publishing.

Professor Ebrahim has taught courses related to intellectual property, licensing law, business law, entrepreneurship law and ethics, property law, wills & trusts, cybersecurity law, and AI & Law. He is the Interim Director of the Center for Business Law and Innovation (CBLI), has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law and McCombs School of Business, and is a Scholar at the Center for Intellectual Property x Innovation Policy. He is the recipient of an Edison Innovation Fellowship, da Vinci Research Fellowship grant, Fulbright Specialist grant, and U.S. Department of State Rawabit grant to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.

He is a Faculty Affiliate with the Lewis & Clark College Data Science Program, Research Affiliate with the Bates Center for Entrepreneurship and Leadership, Research Affiliate at the Portland State University Fariborz Maseeh Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Research Affiliate at the Portland Institute for Computational Science (PICS), and member of the Outreach & Advisory Group for the National Science Foundation funded Oregon Regional Computing Accelerator (Orca). These appointments reflect his commitment to interdisciplinary research and to intersections of law and policy with computing, data science, mathematics and statistics, and entrepreneurship. As a scholar of artificial intelligence (AI) and the law and as an engineer, he uses datasets and machine learning methods to investigate legal issues and also he studies the impact of AI on business and entrepreneurship, legal doctrines, the legal profession, and society.

Professor Ebrahim received his JD from Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law (where he focused on business law) and MBA from Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management (where he majored in entrepreneurship & innovation and in finance, specifically corporate finance and venture capital), a LLM from the University Houston Law Center (where he focused on intellectual property & information law), a MS in mechanical engineering from Stanford University (where he focused on computational engineering), and a BS in mechanical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. He has a graduate certificate in entrepreneurship from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and he has been a founder, board member and board advisor, and leader and operator of multiple funded, high-growth technology startups. Prior to entering legal academia, he practiced law (in the areas of patent prosecution, technology transactions, and corporate law) and served in various executive and management, corporate legal, startup leadership, and engineering and applied research roles. He is licensed to practice law in Texas, is a registered U.S. patent attorney, and is an inventor on a U.S. patent.

Specialty Areas and Course Descriptions

  • Patent Law & Policy
  • Property
  • Wills & Trusts
  • AI & Law
  • Business Law
  • Business Model Design
  • Cybercrime & Security
  • Cyberlaw & Cybersecurity
  • Data & Computer Crime
  • Entrepreneurship Law & Ethics
  • Licensing
  • Patent Law
  • Patent Litigation & Strategy
  • Transactional Intellectual Property

Academic Credentials

  • JD, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
  • MBA, Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management
  • LLM, University of Houston Law Center
  • Graduate Entrepreneurship Certificate, Stanford Graduate School of Business
  • MS, Stanford University School of Engineering
  • BS, High Honors, University of Texas at Austin Cockrell School of Engineering

Bibliography

Book Chapters & Encyclopedia Contributions

  • Artificial Intelligence & Computational Legal Analysis, in Edward Elgar Encyclopedia of AI and the Law (Ryan Abbott and Elizabeth Rothman, eds. Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming 2025).
  • Artificial Intelligence in Digital Platforms for Legal Services, in Edward Elgar Encyclopedia of AI and the Law (Ryan Abbott and Elizabeth Rothman, eds. Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming 2025).
  • 3D Printing: Technology, Intellectual Property Law, & Business Models, in THE CAMBRIDGE HANDBOOK OF EMERGING ISSUES OF COMMERCIAL LAW AND TECHNOLOGY (Stacy-Ann Elvy and Nancy Kim, eds. Cambridge University Press, 2023).
  • Artificial Intelligence in Cyber Peace, Cyber Peace: Charting A Path Towards A Sustainable, Stable, And Secure Cyberspace (Shackelford et. al., Cambridge University Press, 2022).

Publications

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