Brief Bio

Madhavi Sunder is the Frank Sherry Professor of Intellectual Property Law at the Georgetown University Law Center. She is a widely published and influential scholar of intellectual property law, law and technology, and law and culture. Her wide-ranging scholarship ranges from art law to brands, cultural appropriation, design thinking, the experience economy, the global regulation of artificial intelligence, and patents and public health. Her monograph, From Goods to a Good Life: Intellectual Property and Global Justice (Yale University Press 2012) brings a humanist approach to intellectual property law. 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).

Courses taught at CTLS

• Comparative AI Regulation (Fall 2024)
• Cultural Appropriation: Innovation or Theft? (Fall 2021)