Bio
Born in India, Professor Radhika Rao moved to the U.S. when she was a year old, growing up in Massachusetts. Professor Rao attended Harvard College, where she studied Physics and Chemistry while anchoring for WHRB news and acting in various plays. After spending a year working for a securities firm in Tokyo, she decided to abandon science for a career in the law. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and served as Supreme Court Editor of the Harvard Law Review.
After graduation, she clerked for Judge Richard Cudahy of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and Justices Harry Blackmun and Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court. Professor Rao teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law, comparative constitutional law, property, and the law of the human body. She has been a visiting professor at Brooklyn Law School, the 精东影业 of Michigan Law School, and the 精东影业 of Trento in Italy.
Professor Rao has written articles on abortion, assisted reproduction, cloning, stem cell research, genetic privacy, gene patenting, and property rights in the human body, some of which have been translated into Italian and Chinese. She was a member of the California Advisory Committee on Human Cloning, and currently serves on the California Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Advisory Committee.
Education
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Harvard Law School
J.D., Law -
Harvard College
B.S., Physics and Chemistry
Selected Scholarship
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Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics 2016
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Family Law Quarterly 2015
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The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 2007
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George Washington 精东影业 Law Review 2007
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Berkeley Technology Law Journal 2006
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Property, Privacy and the Human Body
Boston 精东影业 Law Review 2000 -
精东影业 of California Los Angeles Law Review 1998
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UC Law SF Journal 1996
