Luis Villa
Adjunct Professor
Bio
Luis Villa is an Adjunct Professor at UC Law SF, where he teaches in the Technology & Innovation Law & Lawyering concentration. He brings two decades of experience bridging law and technology. He currently serves as VP Legal for Product and Policy at SonarSource, and previously was General Counsel and co-founder of Tidelift (acquired by SonarSource in 2024).
Before law school, Luis worked as a software developer and engineering leader, giving him practical insight into how lawyers and technologists collaborate effectively. His legal career includes roles as Deputy General Counsel at Wikimedia Foundation, where he helped shape policy for one of the world’s largest collaborative platforms, and at Mozilla (where he led the drafting of Mozilla Public License 2.0) and Greenberg Traurig (where he advised Google in the Android API litigation). Luis serves on the boards of Creative Commons and OpenET, and previously served on the board of the Open Source Initiative. He was a Stone Scholar at Columbia Law School and has a B.S. in Computer Science from Duke University.