John M Golden

Biography

John Golden is the Edward S. Knight Chair in Law, Entrepreneurialism and Innovation at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law, where he has taught administrative law, contracts, patent law, seminars relating to innovation and intellectual property, and a seminar on disaster and emergency law.  From 2011 to 2022, he served as faculty director of the Andrew Ben White Center in Law, Science and Social Policy.  John has a J.D. from Harvard Law School, a Ph.D. in Physics from Harvard University, and an A.B. in Physics and History from Harvard College.  After law school, John clerked for the Honorable Michael Boudin of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and for Associate Justice Stephen Breyer of the United States Supreme Court.  John also worked as an associate in the intellectual property department of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP.