Biography
Madhavi Sunder is the Frank Sherry Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Georgetown University Law Center. She is an internationally recognized scholar of law, culture, and technology. Her wide-ranging scholarship ranges from access to medicines to AI, art law, brands, cultural appropriation, design thinking, the experience economy, and international intellectual property. Her book, From Goods to a Good Life: Intellectual Property and Global Justice (Yale University Press 2012) brings a humanist approach to intellectual property law. She is the editor of Intellectual Property, COVID-19, and the Next Pandemic: Diagnosing Problems, Developing Cures (with Haochen Sun) (Cambridge University Press 2024); Academic Brands: Projecting Distinctiveness in Global Higher Education (with Mario Biagioli) (Cambridge University Press 2022); The Luxury Economy and Intellectual Property: Critical Reflections (with Haochen Sun & Barton Beebe) (Oxford University Press 2015); and Gender and Feminist Theory in Law & Society (Ashgate Publishing 2007). She is the co-author with Anupam Chander of the comic book, Fred Korematsu: All-American Hero (2011). The author of over 40 articles and book chapters, she has published in the Yale Law Journal, the Stanford Law Review, the University of Michigan Law Review, the California Law Review, the Texas Law Review, and many other leading law reviews. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, L.A Times, PBS Newshour, The Harvard Business Review and The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
