Ruth Lade Okediji (born 1963) is an American legal scholar. She is the Jeremiah Smith. Jr, Professor of Law at

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and co-director of the Berkman Klein Center. She also founded and serves as faculty director of Harvard Law School's Program on Biblical Law and Christian Legal Studies. Professor Okediji is an internationally renowned expert and scholar on intellectual property, trade and development. In 2017 she was appointed as part of the

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Board.

Education

Okediji received her LL.M. and S.J.D. from Harvard Law School. Prior to that, she received an LL.B. from the

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Career

Okediji had a long teaching career before coming to Harvard Law in 2017. From 20032017, she taught at the

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where she was the William L. Prosser Professor of Law and appointed as a McKnight Presidential Professor. Prior to her tenure at Minnesota, she was the Edith Gaylord Presidential Professor of Law at the

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. She also held visiting professorships at

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, the University of Haifa Law School, the

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, and the University of Tilburg Law School.

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Professor Ruth Okediji talks on Copyright and Public Interest at the IFLA Presidential Meeting, 2011
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