David A. Simon is an Associate Professor of Law at Northeastern University School of Law, where he is core faculty at the Center for Health Policy & Law (CHPL) and the Center for Law, Information & Creativity (CLIC). Additionally, he serves as co-director of the Amy J. Reed Collaborative for Medical Device Safety, a 3-year initiative between Northeastern Law and Tufts Medical Center. Funded by Arnold Ventures, the Collaborative uses rigorous academic research and innovative legal strategies to identify and address unsafe medical devices, ultimately improving patient outcomes and industry accountability. Dr. Simon is also a member of the research team at CLASSICA, a major research project on AI-assisted cancer surgery funded by the European Union. He previously has been a faculty member at Harvard Law School, George Washington University Law School, and the University of Kansas School of Law. His scholarship--which focuses on health, intellectual property, innovation, and tort law--has appeared or will appear in a variety of legal publications, including the Boston College Law Review, the Emory Law Journal, the Georgia Law Review, the Florida Law Review, the Journal of the American Medical Association, the Journal of Law & the Biosciences, the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, the Washington Law Review, the Wisconsin Law Review, the William & Mary Law Review, the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities, and the Yale Journal of Law & Technology.

In private practice, Dr. Simon represented clients in corporate, real estate, and intellectual property transactions. His clients included hedge fund managers, investment firms, small businesses, professional athletes, homeless veterans, singers, songwriters, and artists. He also served as a volunteer attorney for Lawyers for the Creative Arts.

Dr. Simon holds an LL.M. from Harvard Law School, where he was a Summer Academic Fellow, and a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, where he was a Cambridge International Scholar (full tuition scholarship & stipend) and member of Trinity College. His dissertation examined the philosophical underpinnings of so-called authors' rights (droit moral) in copyright law. He earned his B.A., with high honors, from the University of Michigan, and his J.D., with high honors, from Chicago-Kent College of Law, where he was selected to the Moot Court Honor Society, Order of the Coif, and Dean's List. During law school, he won several writing awards for work in constitutional law and intellectual property law.