Jacob H. Rooksby is Dean and Professor of Law at Gonzaga University School of Law in Spokane, Washington. An expert in IP law and higher education law, Rooksby is the author of The Branding of the American Mind: How Universities Capture, Manage, and Monetize Intellectual Property and Why It Matters, published in 2016 by Johns Hopkins University Press. He is co-author of the 6th edition of The Law of Higher Education, the leading treatise in the field, and edited The Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer, published in 2020 by Edward Elgar. Rooksby holds J.D., M.Ed., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Virginia and earned his undergraduate degree, summa cum laude, from the College of William & Mary, where he was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.