Christopher R. Leslie is a Professor of Law at the University of California, Irvine School of Law. He has been a Visiting Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, the University of Texas School of Law, and N.Y.U. School of Law. Professor Leslie's scholarship has appeared in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the California Law Review, Texas Law Review, the UCLA Law Review, the Iowa Law Review, the Minnesota Law Review, and the William & Mary Law Review, among others. He is a co-author of the leading treatise on the intersection of antitrust law and intellectual property rights, IP and Antitrust: An Analysis of Antitrust Principles Applied to Intellectual Property (Second Edition 2009) (co-author with Herbert Hovenkamp, Mark D. Janis & Mark A. Lemley).
Professor Leslie graduated from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, where he served as an editor on the California Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif. He also earned a Master's in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and has a degree in economics and political science from U.C.L.A. Before entering the academy, Professor Leslie clerked for Judge Diarmuid O'Scannlain on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and practiced law at two large San Francisco law firms, concentrating on antitrust and complex business litigation. Professor Leslie is also the past Chair of the Antitrust Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) and is an editor for the Antitrust Law Journal.