Ruth Okediji

William L. Prosser Professor of Law

Ruth Okediji

438 Mondale Hall
229–19th Ave. South
Minneapolis, MN 55455

612-625-6475

rokediji@umn.edu

University of Jos, LL.B.
Harvard Law School, LL.M., S.J.D.

Professor Ruth Okediji is one of the leading authorities in the United States on International Intellectual Property Law. After visiting at the University of Minnesota in 2001, Professor Okediji joined the Minnesota faculty in the 2002-2003 academic year. She served on the faculty at the University of Oklahoma College of Law from 1994 to 2002, where she held the Edith Kinney Gaylord Presidential Professorship.

Professor Okediji's scholarship focuses primarily on international intellectual property issues with an emphasis on the relationship between multilateral trade law and intellectual property policy. Her work addresses the relationship between developing and developed countries in the international intellectual property system, including economic analysis of the bargaining strategies that facilitate harmonization of intellectual property rights.

In addition to intellectual property, Professor Okediji has taught contracts, employment law and international trade. She has earned numerous teaching awards and citations for scholarship and service to the community. From 1999-2000 Professor Okediji chaired the University of Oklahoma Faculty Senate. In 2002, Governor Frank Keating appointed her to the Oklahoma Public Employee Relations Board. She is the immediate past-Chair of the AALS Section of Law and Computers, and Chair-Elect of the AALS Section on Intellectual Property.

Professor Okediji received her LL.B. in 1989 from the University of Jos, and LL.M. and S.J.D. degrees from Harvard Law School in 1991 and 1996, respectively. She is a member of the New York Bar Association, the American Bar Association, Order of the Coif, and the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Inns of Court.