Nicola Sharpe

Assistant Professor
Richard W. and Marie L. Corman Scholar

Phone: 217-333-0930 Email: nsharpe@illinois.edu B.A. Cornell University M.B.A. Yale University J.D. Yale University

Professor Nicola Sharpe comes to Illinois from the Northwestern Law School faculty after serving as a Visiting Assistant Professor for the past two years. Professor Sharpe earned her law degree from the Yale Law School, and her MBA from the Yale School of Management. After graduation, she was an associate with the antitrust group of Shearman & Sterling LLP, where she counseled corporate clients on a wide variety of antitrust matters. Professor Sharpe then served as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Florida Coastal School of Law during the 2005-2006 academic year. She is a member of the New York Bar. Her areas of expertise include Corporate Governance, Business Associations, Antitrust, and Complex Civil Litigation. She recently published "Is Apple Playing Fair? Navigating the iPod Fairplay DRM Controversy" in the Northwestern Journal of Technology & Intellectual Property. She earned her B.A. from Cornell University and her M.B.A. and J.D. from Yale University.