Dr. Rebecca Eisenberg

Biography

Rebecca S. Eisenberg is a Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, where she has been a faculty member since 1984. She specializes in patent law and the regulation of biopharmaceutical innovation. Professor Eisenberg teaches a variety of courses that include patent law, trademark law, international intellectual property law, and Food and Drug Administration law. In addition to her teaching responsibilities, she runs workshops aimed at intellectual property student scholarship. She has written extensively on the role of intellectual property in biopharmaceutical research, contributing to leading law reviews and scientific journals. In the 1999–2000 academic year, she was a visiting professor at Stanford Law School and served as a visiting scholar at the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology in spring 2012. Eisenberg is also actively involved in public policy debates regarding intellectual property and biopharmaceutical research, providing advice to institutions such as the National Institutes of Health and the National Academies of Science. Before joining the faculty, she practiced as a litigator in San Francisco.

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