John F. Duffy
· Professor of LawUniversity of Virginia · Law
Active 1932–2025
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About
John F. Duffy is the Samuel H. McCoy II Professor of Law and Research Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, where he has been a faculty member since 2011. Prior to joining UVA Law, he served on the faculty at George Washington University Law School starting in 2003, and has also been a faculty member at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and the William & Mary School of Law. Duffy teaches courses in torts, administrative law, patent law, and international intellectual property law. His research and influence in the field of intellectual property have earned him recognition as one of the 25 most-influential people in the nation by The American Lawyer and one of the 50 most influential in the world by Managing Intellectual Property. He has been profiled in BusinessWeek and named a legal “visionary” by the Legal Times in 2009. Duffy holds an undergraduate degree in physics, served as articles editor on the University of Chicago Law Review, and was awarded an Olin Fellowship in Law and Economics. His professional experience includes clerking for Judge Stephen Williams on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, working as an attorney adviser in the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel, and practicing law at Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C. Since 1996, he has contributed extensively to legal scholarship, publishing articles in leading law reviews and co-authoring a casebook on…
Research topics
- Artificial Intelligence
- Economics
- Computer Science
- Statistics
- Monetary economics
- World Wide Web
- Medicine
- Financial economics
- Business
- Biology
Selected publications
2056 How Do Neurosurgeons Cope With Complications? Results of a Nationwide Survey
Neurosurgery · 2025-03-14
articleINTRODUCTION: Complications are an unfortunate, ubiquitous part of neurosurgery. METHODS: We surveyed 142 members of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) to delineate the array of coping mechanisms adopted and the magnitude of impact that complications have on their wellbeing. RESULTS: Most respondents had complications that resulted in the death of a patient (58.5%) and even more had complications that resulted in short or long-term harm (80.3% and 79.6%, respectively). Complications had…
Advice in Strategic Environments: Experimental Evidence on Recommendation Design
AEA Randomized Controlled Trials · 2025-04-10
datasetAdvice in Strategic Environments: Experimental Evidence on Recommendation Design
AEA Randomized Controlled Trials · 2025-04-10
datasetSubject Characteristics and Play of Repeated Games: Further Experiments
AEA Randomized Controlled Trials · 2025-04-18
dataset1st authorCorrespondingSubject Characteristics and Play of Repeated Games: Further Experiments
AEA Randomized Controlled Trials · 2025-04-18
dataset1st authorCorresponding
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Frequent coauthors
- 27 shared
Matthias Weber
- 22 shared
James B. Bullard
- 21 shared
Arthur Schram
Tinbergen Institute
- 18 shared
Aikaterini Karadimitropoulou
University of Piraeus
- 18 shared
Melanie Parravano
Newcastle University
- 15 shared
Te Bao
- 13 shared
Olga A. Rud
- 13 shared
Jean Paul Rabanal
University of Stavanger
Education
- 1992
PhD, Economics
University of California Los Angeles
- 1986
A.B., Economics
University of California Berkeley
Awards & honors
- Olin Fellowship in Law and Economics
- identified as one of the 25 most-influential people in the n…
- one of the 50 most influential people in the world by Managi…
- named a legal “visionary” by the Legal Times in 2009
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