Tabrez Ebrahim
Associate Professor of Law
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).
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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
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Bioethics & Innovation from a Religion Perspective, North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology (forthcoming 2025).
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Innovation Originators, Michigan Technology Law Review (forthcoming 2024) (with Rafeel Wasif, PhD).
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Corpus Linguistics at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, 50 BYU Law Review 101 (forthcoming 2024) (symposium).
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Comparative Intellectual Property & Religion, 14 IP Theory 1 (forthcoming 2024) (solicited).
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Justice Tech, 102 Denver Law Review Forum (forthcoming 2024).
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Data in Business & Society, 28 Lewis & Clark Law Review 245 (2024) (symposium).
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Islamic Intellectual Property, 54 Seton Hall Law Review 991 (2024).
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Algorithms in Business, Merchant-Consumer Interactions, & Regulation, 123 West Virginia Law Review 867 (2021) (symposium).
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Intellectual Property from a Non-Western Lens: Patents in Islamic Law, 37 Georgia State University Law Review 789 (2021).
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National Cybersecurity Innovation, 123 West Virginia Law Review 483 (2020).
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Artificial Intelligence Inventions & Patent Disclosure, 125 Penn State Law Review 147 (2020), reprinted in Intellectual Property Review (2021).
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Clean & Sustainable Technology Innovation, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability (2020) (peer reviewed).
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Computational Experimentation, 21 Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law 591 (2019).
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Automation & Predictive Analytics in Patent Prosecution: USPTO Implications & Policy, 35 Georgia State University Law Review 1185 (2019) (symposium).
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Data-Centric Technologies: Patent & Copyright Doctrinal Disruptions, 43 Nova Law Review 287 (2019) (symposium) (solicited).
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3D Bioprinting Patentable Subject Matter Boundaries, 41 Seattle University Law Review 1 (2017).
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Trademarks & Brands in 3D Printing, 17 Wake Forest Journal of Business & Intellectual Property Law 1 (2016).
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3D Printing: Digital Infringement and Digital Regulation, 14 Northwestern Journal of Technology & Intellectual Property 37 (2016).
Law School Faculty is located in Legal Research Center on the Law Campus.
MSC: 51
email lawfac@lclark.edu
voice 503-768-6601
fax 503-768-6671