Professor Shubha Ghosh

Professor of Law and Associate Director, INSITE
Contact Information:
Office: 975 Bascom Mall Room 8111
Phone: (608) 262-1679
E-mail: ghosh7@wisc.edu

Education:
B.A. (Economics and History), Amherst College
M.A., Ph.D. (Economics), The University of Michigan
J.D., Stanford

Biography:
Shubha Ghosh is a Professor of Law at The University of Wisconsin Law School and Associate Director at INSITE. His scholarship and teaching are in the areas of intellectual property theory and policy, competition policy, legal theory, and institutional analysis of markets and legal institutions.

Teaching is an important part of the academic mission, and Professor Ghosh has taught in a wide range of the legal curriculum, including first year Torts and Property, Business Organizations, Law and Economics, Intellectual Property and Antitrust. At Wisconsin, Professor Ghosh’s primary focus will be on intellectual property, covering the broad range of intellectual property law and policy as well as more specialized courses. He will also be teaching a course in Transactional Intellectual Property, an innovative study of the intersection of intellectual property and business law with an emphasis on such topics as start-ups, licensing, employment issues, acquisitions, financing, and antitrust. For this course, he uses his own casebook on Intellectual Property in Business Organizations.

Professor Ghosh has published over fifty scholarly articles, book chapters, books, and commentaries. Publishers of his work include, the University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Business Law, Oregon Law Review, International Review of Law and Economics, San Diego Law Review, Florida Law Review, Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, Tulane Law Review, Case Western Law Review, Berkeley Technology Law Review, Law & Policy, Buffalo Law Review, Illinois Law Review, The MIT Press, and Cambridge University Press. Most recently, he is the co-author of two legal casebooks: Intellectual Property in Business Organizations (Lexis-Nexis 2006) and Intellectual Property: Private Rights, Public Interest, and The Regulation of Creative Activity (Thomson West 2007). He is under contract to write Global Issues in Patent Law (with Thomson West) and Understanding Agency and Partnership (with Lexis-Nexis). He is currently working on a scholarly book on the role of markets and intellectual property related institutions in international trade and development that synthesizes his scholarly articles.

Having the opportunity to teach at Wisconsin is a dream come true. The University’s commitment to interdisciplinary and cutting-edge research in law, the social sciences, and the natural sciences makes The University of Wisconsin an attractive community for Professor Ghosh’s interests. In addition to his work at the Law School and at INSITE, Professor Ghosh will have an affiliation with The Center for South Asian Studies. With deep roots and family ties in India, Professor Ghosh has a working relationship with the National Law School of India University in Bangalore, India, and is looking forward to developing his work on law, development, and intellectual property in India.