Dr. Margo Bagley

Biography

Margo Bagley is a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University. She previously served as the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law and was the Hieken Visiting Professor of Patent Law at Harvard Law School in Fall 2022. Margo returned to Emory in 2016 after holding the Hardy Cross Dillard Chair at the University of Virginia School of Law. Her research focuses on comparative issues in patents, particularly in biotechnology and pharmaceuticals, as well as access to medicines and inclusive innovation. Margo has served on committees for the National Academies and consulted for governments and UN agencies as a technical expert on matters related to the African Union and WIPO. She is the Director of the Harvard Global Access Action Project and involved in the Diversity Pilots Initiative. She is an elected member of the American Law Institute and a faculty lecturer at the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center, and she is a McDonald Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Emory Center for the Study of Law and Religion. Margo has published numerous articles, book chapters, monographs, and co-authored books, and she has earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a J.D. with Distinction from Emory University School of Law. She is also a co-inventor on several patents.

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