Dr. Neel U. Sukhatme
Sukhatme, a distinguished legal scholar with expertise across multiple disciplines, will join U-M from Georgetown University Law Center.
At Georgetown University Law Center, Sukhatme has served as associate dean for research and academic programs and as an Anne Fleming Research Professor since 2023. He currently oversees numerous strategic initiatives to bolster research and academic programming, spearheads faculty hiring, and manages budgets for academic initiatives. He joined Georgetown as an associate professor in 2015.
Prior to his academic career, Sukhatme practiced as a patent attorney at Latham & Watkins LLP. He clerked on the US District Court for the Northern District of California and the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
Sukhatme’s research spans criminology, patent law, public law, and election law. His scholarship has been published in the Duke Law Journal, Cornell Law Review, American Law and Economics Review, and Harvard Law Review, among others. His research on felony disenfranchisement has had significant policy implications, informing public debates and media coverage.
He received a bachelor of science in computer engineering with highest honors from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 2001. He earned a JD, cum laude, from Harvard University in 2005 and a PhD in economics from Princeton University in 2015.
