Arti
Rai on Obama Transition Team
New York, Nov. 21, 2008
Surinder Singh Randhawa
Arti Rai has been appointed as a member of the agency review
team on science, technology, space, arts and humanities. She is
a professor of patent law at Duke University, and a classmate
of Mr Obama at Harvard Law School.
The agency review teams for the Obama-Biden transition are charged
with completing a thorough review of various departments, agencies
and commissions in the U.S. government to craft policy, budgetary
and personnel decisions prior to the Jan. 20, 2009 inauguration
date.
Arti Rai is an expert in patent law, law and the biopharmaceutical
industry, and health care regulation. Her current research, funded
by the NIH, focuses on intellectual property issues raised by
collaborative R&D in areas ranging from synthetic biology
to drug development. Her recent publications include "Who's
Afraid of the APA? What the Patent System Can Learn from Administrative
Law" 95 Georgetown Law Journal269 (2007) (with Stuart Benjamin);
"Open and Collaborative Research: A New Model for Biomedicine,"
in Intellectual Property Rights in Frontier Industries: Biotech
and Software (AEI-Brookings Press, 2005); "Finding Cures
for Tropical Diseases: Is Open Source an Answer?" Public
Library of Science: Medicine (2004) (with Stephen M. Maurer and
Andrej Sali); "Collective Action and Proprietary Rights:
The Case of Biotechnology Research with Low Commercial Value,"
in International Public Goods and Transfer of Technology under
a Globalized Intellectual Property Regime (Cambridge Univ. Press,
2005); and "Engaging Facts and Policy: A Multi-Institutional
Approach to Patent System Reform," 106 Columbia Law Review
(2003).
Professor Rai joined the Duke Law faculty in 2003. In the winter
of 2007, Rai was the Hieken Visiting Professor in Patent Law at
Harvard Law School. In the fall of 2004, Rai was a Visiting Professor
at Yale Law School. Prior to joining Duke, she was on the faculty
of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she was also
a visiting professor in Fall 2000. From 1997-2001, she was a faculty
member at the University of San Diego School of Law.
Rai graduated from Harvard College, magna cum laude, with a B.A.
in biochemistry and history (history and science), attended Harvard
Medical School for the 1987-1988 academic year, and received her
J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1991. While in law
school, she served as executive editor for the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil
Liberties Law Review.
Professor
Arti K. Rai