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Ruth Lade Okediji (born 1963) is an American legal scholar. She is the Jeremiah Smith. Jr, Professor of Law at Harvard Law School 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 Creative Commons 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 University of Jos.


Career

Okediji had a long teaching career before coming to Harvard Law in 2017. From 20032017, she taught at the
University of Minnesota Law School The University of Minnesota Law School is the law school of the University of Minnesota, located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The school confers four law degrees: a Juris Doctor (J.D.), a Master of Laws (LL.M.), a Master of Science in Patent L ...
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
University of Oklahoma College of Law The University of Oklahoma College of Law is the professional graduate law school of the University of Oklahoma. It is located on the University's campus in Norman, Oklahoma. The College of Law was founded in 1909 by a resolution of the OU Boa ...
. She also held visiting professorships at
Duke University School of Law Duke University School of Law (Duke Law School or Duke Law) is the law school of Duke University, a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. One of Duke's 10 schools and colleges, the School of Law is a constituent academic unit t ...
, the University of Haifa Law School, the University of St. Thomas School of Law, 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
Living people University of Minnesota Law School faculty Harvard Law School alumni 1963 births {{US-law-bio-stub Harvard Law School faculty