Rachel Sachs
Associate Professor of Law
Professor Rachel Sachs is a scholar of innovation policy whose work explores the interaction of intellectual property law, food and drug regulation, and health law. Her work explores problems of innovation and access to new health care technologies. Professor Sachs’ scholarship has appeared in journals that include the NYU Law Review, Michigan Law Review, the Minnesota Law Review, the Harvard Law Review, the New England Journal of Medicine, and the Journal of the American Medical Association. Prior to joining the faculty, Professor Sachs was an Academic Fellow at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics and a Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School. She also clerked for the Hon. Richard A. Posner of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. She received her J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and a Master of Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health. She received her A.B. in Bioethics from Princeton University.
- Education
- J.D., Harvard Law School, 2013
- MPH, Harvard School of Public Health, 2013
- A.B., Princeton University, 2009
- Courses
- Property Law
- Patent Law
- Innovation in Pharmaceutical Technologies Seminar
- Areas of Expertise
- Patent Law
- Food & Drug Law
- Health Law
- Publications
- Integrating Health Innovation Policy, __ Harv. J.L. & Tech. __ (forthcoming 2020).
- The Medicare Innovation Subsidy (with Mark Lemley & Lisa Larrimore Ouellette), 95 NYU L. Rev. 75 (2020).
- Regulating Intermediate Technologies, 37 Yale J. Reg. 219 (2020).
- The Uneasy Case for Patent Law, 117 Mich. L. Rev. 499 (2019).
- Delinking Reimbursement, 102 Minn. L. Rev. 2307 (2018).
- Administering Health Innovation, 39 Cardozo L. Rev. 1991 (2018).
- Prizing Insurance: Prescription Drug Insurance as Innovation Incentive, 30 Harv. J. L. & Tech. 153 (2016).
- Innovation Law and Policy: Preserving the Future of Personalized Medicine, 49 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 1881 (2016).
- Diagnostic Method Patents and Harms to Follow-On Innovation, 126 Harv. L. Rev. 1370 (2013).
Additional publications outside of law reviews are listed on Professor Sachs’ CV.
- Activity and Affiliations
- Faculty Scholar, Washington University in St. Louis Institute for Public Health
- Member, Institute for Clinical and Economic Review Midwest Comparative Effectiveness Public Advisory Council
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