Explore the lineage of Neel U Sukhatme

Neel U. Sukhatme is a Professor of Law at Georgetown and Affiliated Faculty at the Georgetown McCourt School of Public Policy. He is an Andrew Carnegie Fellow and the Thomas Alva Edison Visiting Scholar at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Sukhatme combines his training as an economist with his experience as a practicing attorney in his empirical research, covering topics in criminal law, courts, campaign finance, and patents and innovation. In 2020, he co-founded Free Our Vote, a data-centered, non-partisan, non-profit organization that restores voting rights for people with past felony convictions. Previously, Sukhatme clerked for Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker of the Northern District of California and Judge Ann Claire Williams of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.