Ruth Okediji

Ruth Lade Okediji (born 1963) is the Jeremiah Smith. Jr, Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and co-director of the Berkman Klein Center.[3] Professor Okediji is an internationally renowned expert and scholar on intellectual property, trade and development.[4] In 2017 she was appointed as part of the Creative Commons Board.

Ruth Lade Okediji
Delivering a keynote at the Creative Commons Global Summit, 2018.
Born1963[1]
Nigeria[2]
Alma mater
OccupationIntellectual Property Scholar

Education

Okediji received her LL.M. and S.J.D. from Harvard Law School. Prior to that, she received an LL.B. from the University of Jos.

Career

Okediji had a long teaching career before coming to Harvard Law in 2017. From 2003–2017, she taught at the University of Minnesota Law School where she was the William L. Prosser Professor of Law and appointed as a McKnight Presidential Professor.[5] Prior to her tenure at Minnesota, she was the Edith Gaylord Presidential Professor of Law at the University of Oklahoma College of Law. She also held visiting professorships at Duke University School of Law, the University of Haifa Law School, the University of St. Thomas School of Law, and the University of Tilburg Law School.[6]

Bibliography
  • Bagley, Margo A.; Okediji, Ruth L.; Erstling, Jay A. (2013). International Patent Law and Policy - American Casebook Series. St. Paul, MN. ISBN 978-0-314-28787-8. OCLC 842883961.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Okediji, Ruth L.; Bagley, Margo A. (2014). Patent Law in Global Perspective. New York. ISBN 978-0-19-936110-6. OCLC 881476206.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Cimoli, Mario; Dosi, Giovanni; Maskus, Keith E.; Okediji, Ruth L.; Reichman, Jerome H. (2014). Stiglitz, Joseph E. (ed.). Intellectual Property Rights : Legal and Economic Challenges for Development (First ed.). Oxford: Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-966075-9. OCLC 879770440.
  • Copyright Law in an Age of Limitations and Exceptions. New York, NY. 2017. ISBN 978-1-107-13237-5. OCLC 927166124.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Helfer, Laurence R; Land, Molly K; Okediji, Ruth L; Reichman, J. H; Oxford University Press (2017). The World Blind Union guide to the Marrakesh Treaty: facilitating access to books for print-disabled individuals. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-067964-4. OCLC 1117298020.
Live drawing of her keynote at the Creative Commons Global Summit, 2018.

References
  1. "VIAF Authority Control". viaf.org. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
  2. "PIJIP's Marrakesh Treaty Event – Teaching Resource and Thanks". infojustice.org. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
  3. "RUTH L. OKEDIJI Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law". hls.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2018-04-16.
  4. "Speakers' bio notes" (PDF). World Intellectual Property organization. Retrieved 2017-02-16.
  5. "Ruth Okediji Awarded McKnight Presidential Professorship". University of Minnesota Law School. 2016-10-12.
  6. "Okediji, Ruth". University of Minnesota Law School. 2015-09-04.


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