Thomas F. Cotter

Briggs and Morgan Professor of Law
Solly Robins Distinguished Research Fellow

Thomas F. Cotter

414 Mondale Hall
229–19th Ave. South
Minneapolis, MN 55455

612-624-7527

cotte034@umn.edu

University of Wisconsin, B.S., M.S., J.D.

Professor Thomas F. Cotter joined the University of Minnesota Law School faculty in 2006. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and in 1987 graduated magna cum laude from the University of Wisconsin Law School, where he served as Senior Articles Editor of the Wisconsin Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif.

From 1987-89, Professor Cotter clerked for the Honorable Lawrence W. Pierce, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He practiced law at Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York City from 1988-90, and at Jenner & Block in Chicago from 1990-94. From 1994-2005, he taught at the University of Florida College of Law, where he held a University of Florida Research Foundation Professorship and directed the school's Intellectual Property Law Program. From 2005-06, he was a Professor of Law at Washington and Lee University School of Law.

Professor Cotter's principal research and teaching interests are in the fields of domestic and international intellectual property law, antitrust, and law and economics. He is the coauthor, with Roger D. Blair, of Intellectual Property: Economic and Legal Dimensions of Rights and Remedies, published by Cambridge University Press in 2005. He has authored or coauthored more than 25 other scholarly publications, including articles in the California Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, Minnesota Law Review, University of Illinois Law Review, William & Mary Law Review, North Carolina Law Review, and Tulane Law Review.