Salil Mehra

Salil Mehra is the Charles Klein Professor of Law and Government at Temple University’s Beasley School of Law in Philadelphia and is also the faculty co-director of Temple University’s Institute for Law, Innovation and Technology. His research focuses on antitrust/competition law and technology, with particular attention to algorithms, machine learning and artificial intelligence. He is a past Chair of the AALS Section on Antitrust and Economic Regulation, and also a former Abe Fellow of Japan’s Center for Global Partnership and the Social Science Research Center. Prior to his career with Temple Law, Professor Mehra worked at the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.

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