Talha Syed

A member of the inaugural cohort of Petrie-Flom Academic Fellows, Talha was appointed to the faculty at the UC Berkeley Boalt Hall School of law iin 2009. His research interests are most broadly in legal theory and political philosophy, and his primary area of focus is analyzing intellectual property laws as social innovation policies.  While an Academic Fellow, Talha's work studied the role of patents in upstream and downstream biomedical research and development, evaluating current domestic and international patent regimes from the perspective of health innovation policy. 

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