Education
B.A., University of Illinois at Chicago
M.A., Northwestern University
J.D., The John Marshall Law School

Areas of Expertise
Intellectual Property
Patent Law

Professor Field teaches Patent Law, Intellectual Property Law, Civil Procedure I and II, Torts I and II, and Evidence. He has also taught Trademarks & Unfair Competition and an advanced patent-law seminar. He was named as an Association of American Law Schools Teacher of the Year in 2019. He researches and writes in the area of patent litigation. His articles have been cited in academic journals and treatises, federal district-court opinions, briefs and petitions in the Supreme Court of the United States, and briefs in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Before joining the faculty at South Texas College of Law Houston, Field was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law, where he taught Legal Writing, Patent Litigation, and an advanced patent-law seminar. He has also taught Torts at the University of Houston Law Center and Advanced Topics in Patent Law at the John Marshall Law School. Before entering academia, Field practiced in the area of patent litigation at Banner & Witcoff, Ltd., in Chicago. As a law student, Field graduated first in his class and was the founding managing editor of the John Marshall Review of Intellectual Property Law. Field is a member of the bar of the State of Illinois (voluntary inactive status), and he is also a member of the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.