Neel U. Sukhatme

Neel U. Sukhatme is a Professor of Law and Anne Fleming Research Professor at Georgetown University Law Center, and Affiliated Faculty at the Georgetown McCourt School of Public Policy. Sukhatme combines his training as an economist with his experience as a practicing attorney in his empirical research, covering topics in access to justice, criminal law, courts, and patents and innovation. His work has appeared in both law and interdisciplinary journals, including the Harvard Law Review, Duke Law Journal, and American Law and Economics Review. In 2020, he co-founded Free Our Vote, a non-partisan, non-profit that helps restore voting rights for people with past felony convictions. Sukhatme holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois. He is also an Andrew Carnegie Fellow and the Thomas Alva Edison Visiting Scholar at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.