Margo A. Bagley is an Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law, and is a leading expert on international patent law and technology issues.
She was the Hieken Visiting Professor in Patent Law at Harvard Law School in Fall 2022, and the Herchel Smith Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge in 2025. She returned to Emory in 2016 after ten years at the University of Virginia School of Law, where she held the Hardy Cross Dillard chair. Her research focuses on comparative issues relating to patents and new technologies, including AI, pharmaceuticals and access to medicines, biodiversity and access and benefit-sharing, religion and IP, and IP, inclusive innovation, and social justice issues.
Margo has served on two National Academies Committees and has consulted with governments and several UN agencies. She is a technical expert to the African Union in WIPO matters and currently she is a Director of the Harvard Global Access in Action Project and of the Diversity Pilots Initiative, and a Fellow with Harvard’s Center for the Study of African Societies and Economies (CSASE). She is an elected member of the American Law Institute, a faculty lecturer with the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center, and a McDonald Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Emory Center for the Study of Law and Religion, and served as a member of the U.S. DARPA ELSI Team for the BRACE project. She has published numerous articles, book chapters, and monographs as well as three books with co-authors. She earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a J.D., with Distinction, from the Emory University School of Law. Margo also is a co-inventor on three patents