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Erika M. Douglas is an Associate Professor at Santa Clara University School of Law, and co-supervisor of the school’s Privacy Law Certificate. Her scholarship focuses on the interactions between antitrust, data privacy, and regulation.

Prior to joining Santa Clara in 2026, Professor Douglas was an Associate Professor at Temple University, Beasley School of Law in Philadelphia. Before joining the academy, Professor Douglas practiced antitrust law at the Silicon Valley office of Covington & Burling LLP, where she represented Fortune 100 technology companies in complex antitrust matters and investigations.

Professor Douglas was recently awarded the Jerry S. Cohen Award for Antitrust Scholarship, Best Publication of 2025 on Antitrust in Regulated Industries for her article Antitrust Abandonment. Her work appears in various journals and books, including the Yale Law Journal Forum, Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, Virginia Journal of Law & Technology, Notre Dame Law Review Reflection, and the Research Handbook on Competition Law And Data Privacy from University College London. She is joining as co-author on the 6^th Edition of Antitrust Law in Perspective: Cases, Concepts and Problems in Competition Policy.

Professor Douglas serves on the leadership of the American Bar Association Antitrust Section, the American Antitrust Institute, the Association of American Law Schools (Section of Antitrust and Economic Regulation), and internationally on the C.D. Howe Institute Competition Policy Council. She is a Fellow of the Yale School of Management Thurman Arnold Project.

Professor Douglas holds an LL.M. (Law, Science and Technology) from Stanford University, where she was awarded the John Hart Ely Prize for writing on intermediary liability. She also holds a J.D. and Honors in Business Administration from University of Western Ontario.

Professor Douglas teaches Antitrust, Privacy, Patents, New Technology Regulation, and Contracts.

LL.M. in Law, Science, and Technology (John Hart Ely Prize), Stanford University
J.D., University of Western Ontario
H.B.A, B.Sc., University of Western Ontario

Areas of Specialization

• Antitrust
• Regulation
• Data Privacy

Bar Admissions

• California (2017-present)
• Law Society of Upper Canada (2011-present) 

Selected Publications

• M&A Exceptionalism in Privacy Law, 127 HARV. J.L. & TECH 39 (2025)
• Antitrust Abandonment, 42 Yale J. on Reg. 1 (2025).
• What is Privacy¾To Antitrust Law, 14 U.C. Irvine L. Rev. 817 (2024).
• Constructing the Digital Regulatory Ecosystem, 26 Vir. J. L. & Tech.1 (2023)
• The New Antitrust/Data Privacy Law Interface, 130 Yale L.J. Forum 647 (2021).
• Monopolization Remedies and Data Privacy, 24 Vir. J. L. & Tech. 2 (2020).
• Online Payment Processors: Safe Harbors and Secondary Copyright Infringement, 22 J. Internet L. 1 (Sept. 2018).
• PayPal is New Money: Extending Secondary Copyright Liability Safe Harbors to Online Payment Processors, 24 Mich. Telecomm. & Tech. L. Rev. 45 (2017).