2012-2013 Student Fellows

Adriana Benedict

Adriana Lee Benedict is a second-year student at Harvard Law School interested in promoting access to medicines and biomedical research. She graduated from Harvard College with a concentration in History and Science, a secondary concentration in government, and a certificate in Mind/Brain/Behavior, and subsequently completed a Master of Science in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard School of Public Health. Adriana has pursued health and human rights work in Kenya, Tanzania, India, Peru and Colombia, and is currently the co-chair of the Harvard chapter of the Universities Allied for Essential Medicines. Adriana’s research interests lie at the intersection of intellectual property and health law, public interest protections in international trade regimes, pharmaceutical research and licensing, and the international right to health. Adriana will be analyzing regulatory implementation of the NIH Public Access Policy alongside an evaluation of alternative approaches to pharmaceutical R&D, with a special consideration of the impact of international trade and investment agreements on domestic R&D policies.

Katie Booth

Katie is a third-year law student at Harvard Law School with a focus on health care law. She attended Yale University, where she majored in English. Prior to law school, Katie worked for two years as a management consultant for pharmaceutical, biotech and agribusiness companies. Katie is currently joint Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, which focuses on intellectual property law, health law, and technology law issues. During law school, Katie has interned in the Health Care Fraud Unit of the United States Attorney’s Office in Boston and in the Health Care Group at Ropes & Gray. During her fellowship, Katie plans to research the problem of cyberattacks on wireless medical devices, focusing on the current U.S. legal and regulatory structure.

Jonathan Darrow

Jonathan holds a BS in biological sciences from Cornell University, a JD from Duke University, and an MBA from Boston College. In 2009 he completed the LLM program at Harvard Law School, where he is currently a candidate for the SJD. After admission to the bar, Jonathan practiced law in the Silicon Valley offices of Cooley Godward and later worked on patent litigation matters at Wiley Rein & Fielding in Washington, DC. He is admitted to practice before the USPTO. Prior to the LLM program, he served as a lecturer on law at Boston College and as Assistant Professor of Business Law at Plymouth State University. His legal scholarship on technology and intellectual property has appeared in numerous publications including the Stanford Technology Law Review, the NYU Journal of Legislation & Public Policy, the Northwestern Journal of Technology & Intellectual Property, the Albany Law Review and the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology. His co-authored textbook Cyberlaw: Text & Cases (Cengage 2012) was recently published. In 2011, Jonathan examined the global impact of Intellectual Property during a stint at the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, returning in 2012 to address global issues at the intersection of trade, intellectual property, and health, at the World Health Organization.He is an adjunct Assistant Professor and Senior Research Consultant at Bentley University. During his fellowship, Jonathan will explore a “cap and crowdsource” model of clinical trials with a view toward controlling costs, screening out minimally effective drugs, and releasing new drugs to the public in an ethical manner.

Patrick O'Leary

Patrick is a third-year student at Harvard Law School. His fellowship research project will focus on the tension between federal policies promoting innovation in and commercialization of bio-medical research and the government’s consumer-protection obligations. He is particularly interested in healthcare and FDA enforcement policy, and in the changing roles of different institutional actors including FDA, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Department of Justice in bringing enforcement actions against companies and individuals in life-sciences industries. Patrick graduated from Georgetown University with a degree in religious studies. Before law school he worked as an AmeriCorps member at the Capital Area Food Bank in Washington, DC.

Yoni Schenker

Yoni is a third-year law student at Harvard Law School. He graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park, with degrees in Philosophy and Finance. His primary research interests involve the intersection of population-level bioethics and the law, including issues of health care access, ethical health care policy, and organ donation. Yoni’s research project will focus on the problem of access to healthcare resulting from healthcare worker “brain drain” in developing countries. He will examine the potential for an international compensation scheme targeted to help alleviate the effects of the brain drain.