Professor Salil Mehra teaches antitrust, contracts, corporations, Japanese law, and Asian law. Professor Mehra graduated Order of the Coif from the University of Chicago Law School and was on the Law Review. He also received an M.A. in Japanese Studies from the University of California at Berkeley, and an A.B. from Harvard.

After law school, he clerked for Chief Judge Juan R. Torruella of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and then worked at the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice and the New York law firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, where his practice included antitrust, first amendment, and takeover defense litigation.

Professor Mehra currently does comparative law research involving antitrust and intellectual property. His publications include Copyright and Comics in Japan: Does Law Explain Why All the Cartoons My Kid Watches are Japanese Imports?, 55 RUTGERS L. REV. 155 (2002); Software as Crime: Japan, The United States and Contributory Copyright Infringement, 79 TULANE L. REV. 265 (2004); Striking Out Competitive Balance in Sports, Antitrust and Intellectual Property (with Tim Zuercher), 21 BERKELEY TECH L. J. 1499 (2006); and Post a Message and Go to Jail: Criminalizing Internet Libel in Japan and the United States, 78 COLORADO L. REV. 767 (2007).

Electronic copies of Professor Mehra's papers are available from the SSRN eLibrary at:http://ssrn.com/author=92298