John M. Golden

  • Edward S. Knight Chair in Law, Entrepreneurialism, and Innovation
  • Professor

John Golden holds the Edward S. Knight Chair in Law, Entrepreneurialism and Innovation. He has taught administrative law, contracts, patent law, and seminars on innovation, intellectual property, and disaster and emergency law. From 2011 to 2022, he was the faculty director of the Andrew Ben White Center in Law, Science and Social Policy. Professor Golden earned his J.D. and Ph.D. in Physics from Harvard University. He served as a clerk for the Honorable Michael Boudin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and Associate Justice Stephen Breyer of the U.S. Supreme Court.