Dr. Margaret Radin

Biography

Margaret Jane Radin is the Henry King Ransom Professor Emerita of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. She retired in 2015 and has a notable academic career focusing on contracts, patents, and international intellectual property. Radin has taught property theory, Internet commerce, and a student scholarship seminar. Her influential book 'Boilerplate' published by Princeton University Press in 2013, won the Scribes Book Award in 2014 and discusses the challenges posed by adhesion contracts within the legal system. Among her significant works are 'Contested Commodities' (Harvard University Press, 1996) and 'Reinterpreting Property' (University of Chicago Press, 1993). Radin has been a visiting professor at prestigious institutions including Harvard, UC Berkeley, and NYU. She was the inaugural Microsoft Fellow in Law and Public Affairs at Princeton University during 2006-2007 and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Although she advanced to candidacy for a PhD in musicology at UC Berkeley, she transitioned to a career in law. Radin is also a devoted amateur flutist.