Arti K. Rai
Elvin R. Latty Professor of Law
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.