Suzanne Scotchmer

Suzanne Scotchmer was a Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and a visiting scholar at the Berkeley School of Law and the I-School at Berkeley in Fall 2007. Her graduate degrees were in economics and statistics. She held visiting and teaching appointments at Harvard University, University of Auckland, University of Cergy-Pontoise (Paris), Tel Aviv University, University of Paris I (Sorbonne), Berkeley School of Law, the University of Toronto Law School, University of Southern California, Yale University, Stanford University, New School of Economics, Moscow, and Stockholm School of Economics. She is published on intellectual property law, rules of evidence, tax enforcement, cooperative game theory, club theory, and evolutionary game theory. She served on the editorial boards of American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Regional Science and Urban Economics, and Journal of Public Economics. She served on committees of the National Research Council (National Academies of Sciences) and was a member of the Board on Science, Technology and Economic Policy. The Department of Justice Antitrust Division used her as a consultant on antitrust matters; and she was a scholar in residence at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. In 2004 she published Innovation and Incentives with MIT Press. Professor Scotchmer passed away in 2014.