Justin Hughes

Justin Hughes

• Hon. William Byrne Professor of Law, Loyola Marymount University

Justin Hughes is the Honorable William Matthew Byrne Distinguished Professor of Law at Loyola Law School, Loyola Marymount University, where he teaches intellectual property and international trades courses.  He is also a Visiting Professor of Law at Oxford University. In 2024, he is a Fulbright Distinguished Professor at Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki. 

From 2009 until 2013, Professor Hughes also served as Senior Advisor to the Undersecretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property.  In that capacity, he was the US chief negotiator for two multilateral treaties, the Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances (2012) and the Marrakesh Treaty for the Blind (2013).  

Educated at Oberlin and Harvard, Professor Hughes practiced international arbitration in Paris, was a Mellon Fellow in the Humanities, and, as a Henry Luce Scholar, clerked for the Lord President of the Supreme Court of Malaysia.   From 2006-2009, he was Chairman of the Technicolor/Thomson Foundation for Film and Television Heritage. Professor Hughes has also done volunteer democracy development work in Albania, Bosnia, El Salvador, Haiti, and Mali.