“What’s Yours is Mine and What’s Mine is Mine”: Synthetic Biology and Ethical Benefit-Sharing Obligations Under the Nagoya Protocol

Presenter Information

Margo Bagley, Emory Law

Panel

Panel 2: IP, Trade and Access

Moderator

Henry Liao, Partner, Schinders Law

Speaker Bio

Margo A. Bagley is an Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law. She returned to Emory in 2016 after ten years at the University of Virginia School of Law, where she held the Hardy Cross Dillard chair. Professor Bagley served on the National Academy of Sciences Committee on University Management of Intellectual Property, and is an advisor to the Government of Mozambique in World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) matters. She is also Friend of the Chair in the WIPO Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge, and Folklore, and served as a member of the Convention on Biological Diversity’s Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Digital Sequence Information and Genetic Resources. She has served as a consultant to the FAO International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture Secretariat, and is a collaborator in the Harvard University Global Access in Action (GAiA) program. Professor Bagley has taught international and comparative patent law courses in several countries and has published numerous articles, book chapters, and monographs as well as two books with co-authors. A chemical engineer by training, Professor Bagley worked in industry for several years before attending law school and is a co-inventor on a patent for reduced fat peanut butter.

Location

Pacific McGeorge School of Law, Lecture Hall, 3200 Fifth Ave., Sacramento, CA