Matthew Sag is an Assistant Professor of Law at DePaul University College of Law in Chicago, Illinois. Professor Sag's research focuses on economic and empirical analysis of intellectual property, particularly the effect of intellectual property laws on innovation and competition.
Intellectual Property Law
Fairly Useful: An Empirical Study of Copyright’s Fair Use Doctrine, ExpressO (2011)
Fair use is often criticized as unpredictable and doctrinally incoherent—a conclusion which necessarily implies that...
Predicting Fair Use, ExpressO (2011)
Fair use is often criticized as unpredictable and doctrinally incoherent—a conclusion which necessarily implies that...
The Pre-History of Fair Use, ExpressO (2010)
This article reconsiders the history of copyright’s pivotal fair use doctrine. The history of fair...
The Google Book Settlement And The Fair Use Counterfactual, New York Law School Law Review (2010)
The sprawling Google Book litigation began as a dispute between the search engine colossus and...
The Google Book Settlement And The Fair Use Counterfactual, ExpressO (2009)
This Article compares the pending settlement between Google and the representative author and publisher plaintiffs...
Judicial Behaviour
Taking the Measure of Ideology: Empirically Measuring Supreme Court Cases (with Tonja Jacobi), The Georgetown Law Journal (2009)
Empirical legal studies have become increasingly popular and influential, but empirical analysis is only as...
The Effect Of Judicial Ideology In Intellectual Property Cases (with Tonja Jacobi and Maxim Sytch) (2007)
This article investigates the relationship between ideology and judicial decision-making in the context of intellectual...
Legal History
The Pre-History of Fair Use, ExpressO (2010)
This article reconsiders the history of copyright’s pivotal fair use doctrine. The history of fair...