Andres Sawicki

Andres Sawicki is a professor of law at the University of Miami, director of the Data, Ethics, & Society Program at the Frost Institute for Data Science & Computing, and director of the Business of Innovation, Law, & Technology Concentration at the University of Miami School of Law.

An internationally recognized scholar of intellectual property law, his work explores how legal rules shape creativity, innovation, and emerging technologies. Sawicki’s recent research includes “The Law of Creativity?”

(Cornell Law Review, 2025), an argument for grounding IP in the sociology and psychology of creativity, and “The Terms and Conditions of Generative AI” (funded by the Frost Institute), which examines how terms of service influence consumers’ rights and liabilities when using generative AI.

He is also a co-author of Patent Law: An Open-Access Casebook, the most-downloaded patent law casebook on SSRN. Sawicki received his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School.