Rachel Sachs
Treiman Professor of Law
Rachel Sachs is a scholar of innovation policy, exploring intellectual property law, food and drug regulation, and health law. Her scholarship has appeared in journals including The NYU Law Review, The Duke Law Journal, The Michigan Law Review, The Harvard Law Review, The New England Journal of Medicine, and The Journal of the American Medical Association. Prior to joining WashULaw, 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.
- Education
- J.D., Harvard Law School, 2013
- MPH, Harvard School of Public Health, 2013
- A.B., Princeton University, 2009
- Courses
- Property Law
- Health Law
- Patent Law
- Innovation in Pharmaceutical Technologies Seminar
- Areas of Expertise
- Patent Law
- Food & Drug Law
- Health Law
- Publications
- Rethinking Innovation at FDA (with W. Nicholson Price II & Patricia J. Zettler), B.U. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2024).
- Cryptic Patent Reform Through the Inflation Reduction Act (with Arti K. Rai & W. Nicholson Price II), Harv. J.L. & Tech (forthcoming 2024).
- The Accidental Innovation Policymakers, 72 Duke L. J. 1431 (2023).
- The Role of State Attorneys General in Improving Prescription Drug Affordability (with Michelle M. Mello & Trish Riley), 95 S. Cal. L. Rev. 595 (2022).
- New Innovation Models in Medical AI (with W. Nicholson Price II & Rebecca S. Eisenberg), 99 Wash. U. L. Rev. 1121 (2022).
- Integrating Health Innovation Policy, 34 Harv. J.L. & Tech. 57 (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, linked below.
- Activity and Affiliations
- Nonresident Fellow, The Brookings Institution
- Faculty Scholar, Washington University in St. Louis Institute for Public Health
- Member, Institute for Clinical and Economic Review Midwest Comparative Effectiveness Public Advisory Council
- Editorial Board Member, Journal of Health Policy, Politics & Law
- Editorial Board Member, Health Affairs Scholar
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