Talha Syed
Academic Fellow, 2006-08
Congratulations to Talha Syed for his appointment as Assistant Professor, to the Berkeley Law School beginning, July 1, 2009
Mr. Syed is a graduate of the University of Victoria Law School where he received the Gold Medal for being the top student in his class, and is getting an SJD at Harvard Law School. 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. His current work is on 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. In this regard, he engaged in three main projects as a fellow:
-an examination of the role of patent rights and exemptions in upstream life sciences research in the post-Bayh-Dole era of university patenting and technology transfer, which is culminating in three papers (a literature review, an interview-based study and comparative legal-policy analysis of patent research exemptions)
-a book that he is co-authoring with Harvard Law Professor Terry Fisher, entitled Drugs, Law and the Health Crisis in the Developing World (Stanford University Press forthcoming), which advances, canvasses and evaluates a number of legal and economic reforms aimed at improving the performance of global pharmaceutial R&D as measured against global health metrics. The normative- philosophical component of the book’s argument has just been published, as “Global Justice in Health Care: Developing Drugs for the Developing World,” 40 UC Davis Law Review 583 (2007).
-a doctoral dissertation that evaluates the U.S. patent and FDA regimes with respect to downstream pharmaceutical innovation, from the perspective of static and dynamic efficiency and distribution, entitled “The Legal-Institutional Economics of Pharmaceutical Innovation: A Critical Evaluation of Strong Patent Protection and Alternative Innovation Policies.”
Mr. Syed is also working on more general projects, including a paper on the contribution of legal analytics to positive and normative social theory and a paper on the fundamental ideals and potential limits of liberal-deontological and liberal-consequentialist political theory.
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