Christopher R. Leslie Professor of Law

Professor Leslie has a degree in economics and political science from UCLA and a master's in public policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He graduated from Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley, where he served as an associate editor on the California Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif.

After clerking for Judge Diarmuid O'Scannlain on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, he practiced law at Pillsbury Madison & Sutro and Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe in San Francisco, concentrating on antitrust and complex business litigation. Prior to joining the faculty of Chicago-Kent, Professor Leslie taught antitrust and corporations at Boalt Hall. He has been a visiting professor of law at Stanford Law School, the University of Texas School of Law, and NYU School of Law.

Professor Leslie's scholarship has appeared in the Texas Law Review, UCLA Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, Iowa Law Review, William & Mary Law Review, Tulane Law Review, Indiana Law Journal, U.C. Davis Law Review, Florida Law Review, Wisconsin Law Review, Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review and Ohio State Law Journal, among others. He is the author of the forthcoming casebook Antitrust Law and Intellectual Property Rights (Oxford University Press). His research focuses on antitrust and business law.