Margo A. Bagley

Margo A. Bagley is the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law. She rejoined Emory in 2016 after a decade as the Hardy Cross Dillard Professor of Law at the University of Virginia. Her expertise spans international intellectual property law, with a focus on patent systems, biotechnology, genetic resources, and equitable access to innovations. She co-developed the award-winning TI:GER® program, which integrates law, business, and STEM students in technology commercialization projects.

Her research examines patent law's intersection with ethics, biodiversity, and social justice, particularly regarding traditional knowledge protection and benefit-sharing for genetic resources. Recent publications emphasize digital sequence information governance and multilateral frameworks for equitable innovation.

Notable honors include the Robert W. Woodruff Fellowship, Order of the Coif, and election to the American Law Institute (2023). She received a $50,000 Emory Global Health Institute grant for a drug quality initiative in Mozambique/Malawi and serves on the U.S. DARPA ELSI team for bio-inspired infrastructure projects.

She is a Faculty Lecturer at the Max Planck Institute's Munich Intellectual Property Law Center and advises the African Union Commission, UN Convention on Biological Diversity, and World Intellectual Property Organization on treaty negotiations.