Pater DiCola

Peter DiCola is a professor of law at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. He received both his J.D. and his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan. After law school, he served as a law clerk to the Honorable Thomas L. Ambro of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. From 2000 to 2014, he worked on various research projects with the non-profit Future of Music Coalition. Along with Kembrew McLeod, he is a co-author of a book based on interviews with musicians, attorneys, and music-industry executives about the licensing of digital samples. He is also the author or co-author of several law review articles on topics such as how professional photographers view copyright, the ways musicians earn revenue, and the regulation of digital music services. He is currently working on a project about how to model the economics of copyright after the rise of internet-based intermediaries.