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Tabrez Ebrahim

Associate Professor of Law

Legal Research Center 221

Legal Assistant: Ronna Craig

Biography

Tabrez Ebrahim is an Associate Professor of Law at Lewis & Clark Law School. He is the Interim Director of the Lewis & Clark Center for Business Law and Innovation (CBLI), a faculty affiliate with the Lewis & Clark College interdisciplinary Data Science Program, and a research affiliate with the Bates Center for Entrepreneurship and Leadership. He is a Research Affiliate at the Portland State University Fariborz Maseeh Department of Mathematics + Statistics, a Research Affiliate at the Portland Institute for Computational Science (PICS), and a Visiting Professor (adjunct) at Jordan University of Science & Technology (in Irbid, Jordan).

Professor Ebrahim’s scholarship focuses on patent law, law and technology, computational legal analysis and empirical legal studies, business law, and property law. He is a Scholar at George Mason University’s Center for Intellectual Property x Innovation Policy (C-IP2), and he has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business and School of Law. He is a registered U.S. patent attorney and 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

Innovation Originators, Michigan Technology Law Review (forthcoming 2024) (with Rafeel Wasif, PhD).
Corpus Linguistics at the U.S. Patent Office, 50 BYU Law Review (forthcoming 2024) (symposium).
Comparative Intellectual Property & Religion, 14 IP Theory 1 (forthcoming 2024) (solicited).
Justice Tech, 102 Denver Law Review Forum (forthcoming 2024).
Data in Business & Society, 28 Lewis & Clark Law Review 245 (2024) (symposium).
Islamic Intellectual Property, 54 Seton Hall Law Review 991 (2024).
Algorithms in Business, Merchant-Consumer Interactions, & Regulation, 123 West Virginia Law Review 867 (2021) (symposium).
Intellectual Property from a Non-Western Lens: Patents in Islamic Law, 37 Georgia State University Law Review 789 (2021).
National Cybersecurity Innovation, 123 West Virginia Law Review 483 (2020).
Artificial Intelligence Inventions & Patent Disclosure, 125 Penn State Law Review 147 (2020), reprinted in Intellectual Property Review (2021).
Clean & Sustainable Technology Innovation, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability (2020) (peer reviewed).
Computational Experimentation, 21 Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law 591 (2019).
Automation & Predictive Analytics in Patent Prosecution: USPTO Implications & Policy, 35 Georgia State University Law Review 1185 (2019) (symposium).
Data-Centric Technologies: Patent & Copyright Doctrinal Disruptions, 43 Nova Law Review 287 (2019) (symposium) (solicited).
3D Bioprinting Patentable Subject Matter Boundaries, 41 Seattle University Law Review 1 (2017).
Trademarks & Brands in 3D Printing, 17 Wake Forest Journal of Business & Intellectual Property Law 1 (2016).
3D Printing: Digital Infringement and Digital Regulation, 14 Northwestern Journal of Technology & Intellectual Property 37 (2016).

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