Professor David Simon is an expert on intellectual property, healthcare law, data and liability. His research focuses on innovation in healthcare, with an emphasis on prescription drugs and devices. His current projects include developing a new theory of federal preemption as to claims against prescription drug and device manufacturers that promote off-label uses, designing systems to support research on ultra-rare diseases and conditions, and examining philosophical problems in intellectual property. He is principal investigator for the Amy J. Reed Collaborative for Medical Device Safety, which is analyzing data from tens of thousands of medical devices to identify safety risks and develop legal tools to address them; the project is supported by Arnold Ventures. He is also a member of the research team at CLASSICA, a major research project on AI-assisted cancer surgery funded by the European Union.
Professor Simon’s work has appeared in a variety of leading publications, including the Emory Law Journal, Georgia Law Review, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities, Journal of Law and the Biosciences, JAMA, Nature Biotechnology and the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics.
Professor Simon previously served on the law faculty at Harvard Law School, George Washington University School of Law and the University of Kansas School of Law. During his time at Harvard Law School, he led a three-year initiative at Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics dubbed Diagnosing in the Home: The Ethical, Legal, and Regulatory Challenges and Opportunities of Digital Home Health. In private practice, Professor Simon represented clients in corporate, real estate and intellectual property transactions. His clients included hedge fund managers, investment firms, small businesses, professional athletes, homeless veterans, singers, songwriters and artists. He also served as a volunteer attorney for Lawyers for the Creative Arts.
Professor Simon holds an LLM from Harvard Law School, where he was a Summer Academic Fellow, and a PhD from the University of Cambridge, where he was a Cambridge International Scholar and member of Trinity College. He earned his BA with high honors, from the University of Michigan, and his JD, with high honors, from Chicago-Kent College of Law, where he was selected to the Moot Court Honor Society, Order of the Coif and Dean’s List. During law school, he won several writing awards for work in constitutional law and intellectual property law.
