Talha Syed
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“One thing that I find pretty great here is the opportunity to meet with, and interact with people in the government program, the economics program, the philosophy program, and the Kennedy school… You really feel at the center of a major intellectual community here.”--Talha Syed S.J.D. Candidate |
Talha Syed, currently an S.J.D. student, came to HLS with a large amount of international experience. Born in Pakistan, he grew up in Canada and attended university there where he developed a desire to learn about other political and social perspectives. In order to indulge this interest, he went on to teach English in Korea, volunteered in South Africa, and worked as an attorney in Thailand. Talha knew by the end of his senior year in college that he wanted pursue an academic career and applied to the LL.M program so that he would have an opportunity to work with faculty members whose perspective and approach was consistent with his own.
Talha’s work as an S.J.D. student focuses on patent law and medicines. His dissertation “seeks to challenge and provide alternatives to ‘strong patent protection’ as the dominant innovation policy for pharmaceutical research and development in the United States and, increasingly, throughout the world.” Talha currently holds a Fellowship with the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, is a former Graduate Fellow with the Weatherhead Center Project on Justice, Welfare & Economics and will be, for the next two years, an inaugural Fellow with the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics. He is also co-author (with Professor William W. Fisher) of Patent Law, Drugs & the Health Crisis in the Developing World, 2005
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