Biography

A pioneer in the emerging field of legal informatics, Joshua Walker is a founder of CodeX (Stanford Center for Computers and Law), a multidisciplinary laboratory run by Stanford Law School and Stanford University's School of Engineering, and was executive director of the IP Litigation Clearinghouse before becoming CEO and Chief Legal Architect of Lex Machina, Inc.-- a private venture spun off from the IP Litigation Clearinghouse. At Lex Machina, he currently leads advanced, applied research in law and computer science—efforts to make legal information more accessible to both attorneys and the general public.

Walker has been building legal data collections and databases for over a decade. As an undergraduate at Harvard, he collected primary data on criminal and ethnic nationalist/religious extremist groups in Northern Ireland and wartime Bosnia. Later, he was part of a U.S. team sent to Rwanda, prosecuting orchestrators of the 1996 genocide. Through his work coordinating the Office of the Prosecutor's first functional database, Walker helped convict the former Prime Minister of Rwanda—a judicial first—and build cases against other key perpetrators. As a student at the University of Chicago Law School, Walker became a top antitrust scholar and cultivated interdisciplinary research projects with Argonne National Laboratory. Before coming to Stanford, Walker was an intellectual property litigator at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, representing Facebook, Intel, eBay, and other leading technology companies. Several of his successful representations have lead to new intellectual property and Internet jurisdiction law.

Education

• BA, magna cum laude, Harvard University, 1995
• JD, University of Chicago Law School, 2002

Bar Admissions

• Supreme Court of California
• Northern District of California
• Supreme Court of the United States

Programs

• CodeX: Stanford Center for Computers and Law
• Stanford Program in Law, Science & Technology
• Intellectual Property Litigation Clearinghouse

Papers, Presentations, and Cases

• Sturm und Drang: U.S. Patent Infringement Outcomes from 2000 - 2009.
  · Covington & Burling LLP
  · U.S. Federal Trade Commission
  · U.S. Federal Judicial Center
  · U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
  · The White House
  · Wilmer, Hale LLP
• Mark Lemley and Joshua Walker, Intellectual Property Litigation Clearinghouse: Data Overview, 2007 Kauffman Symposium on Entrepreneurship and Innovation Data (Presentation; Fall 2007)
• Joshua Walker and Harry Surden, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences: Empirical Methodologies for Analyzing Intellectual Property Litigation (Presentation; Spring 2007)
• Joshua Walker, Lex Machina: Applications of Computer Science to IP Exchange (MediaX: Stanford University, 2005)
• Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, 126 S. Ct. 2749 (2006): Joshua Walker et al., Brief of Lawrence M. Friedman, Jonathan Lurie, and Alfred P. Rubin as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioner (team leader and lead author)
• Big Creek Lumber Co. v. County of Santa Cruz, 38 Cal.4th 1139 (Cal., 2006): Karen Johnson-McKewan, Joshua Walker, Robert Nagel and Katherine Ikeda, Amici Curiae Brief of Committee for Green Foothills, Sierra Club, et al. in Support of Defendant and Appellant (associate)

Field of Expertise

Technology and the Law, Legal Informatics, Intellectual Property, Antitrust, International Human Rights

In the News

• Stanford Law School Yields New Start-Up
  The Stanford Daily, January 12, 2010

Courses & Programs

Programs

• Stanford IP Litigation Clearinghouse, CEO & Chief Legal ArchitectLex Machina, Inc.

Publications & Cases

• John R. Allison, Mark A. Lemley, and Joshua Walker, Extreme Value or Trolls on Top? Evidence from the Most Litigated Patents, Stanford Public Law Working Paper, No. 1407796 (May 2009).