Mario Biagioli is a professor at UCLA’s School of Law and its Department of Communication. He is the author, most recently, of Gaming the Metrics: Misconduct and Manipulation in Academic Research (MIT Press, 2020) (with Alexandra Lippman) and Academic Brands: Distinction in Global Higher Education (Cambridge University Press, 2022) (with Madhavi Sunder).
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES

Dark Transparency: Hyper-Ethics at Trump’s EPA
Mario Biagioli and Alain Pottage get to the bottom of how scientific norms were radicalized by Trump’s EPA to turn against themselves....

Of Viruses and Licenses: Lessons from COVID-19 Vaccine Patent Debates
Mario Biagioli takes on the heated debates currently being enacted in op-eds around the compulsory licensing of COVID-19....

Fraud by Numbers: Metrics and the New Academic Misconduct
UCLA professor of Law and Communication Mario Biagioli dissects how metric-based evaluations are shaping university agendas....
