Andrew Chin Biography

Andrew Chin

B.S., Mathematics 1987, University of Texas at Austin; Ph.D., Computer Science, 1991, University of Oxford; J.D., 1998, Yale Law School

After serving as student government president at the University of Texas, Andrew Chin earned his doctorate at St. Catherine's College, Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship and a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship. Between 1991 and 1995, he taught mathematics at Texas A&M University, computer science at King's College, University of London, and public policy at the University of Texas at Austin. At Yale, he published a paper written during his first semester as a note in the Yale Law Journal, and several subsequent law review articles.

After graduation, he clerked for Judge Henry H. Kennedy, Jr. of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, and assisted Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson and his law clerks in the drafting of the findings of fact in United States v. Microsoft Corporation. Chin then practiced in the corporate and intellectual property departments in the Washington, D.C. office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP. Chin joined the faculty of the University of North Carolina School of Law in 2001. He teaches and writes on antitrust, patent law, and U.S. and international intellectual property law.