Biography
Margaret Chon is the Faculty Director of the Technology, Innovation Law, and Ethics (TILE) Institute and the Donald & Lynda Horowitz Endowed Chair for the Pursuit of Justice at Seattle University School of Law. Author of numerous articles, book chapters and review essays on knowledge governance through intellectual property, she focuses mainly on the role of global intellectual property systems in promoting human flourishing and sustainable development. Her co-edited books include Improving Intellectual Property: A Global Project (with Susy Frankel, Graeme Dinwoodie, Barbara Lauriat, and Jens Schovsbo 2023) and the Cambridge Handbook of Public-Private Partnerships, Intellectual Property, and Sustainable Development (with Pedro Roffe and Ahmed Abdel-Latif, 2018). At Seattle University, she currently teaches intellectual property and has also taught as a tenured professor at Syracuse University College of Law as well as a visiting law professor at George Washington University (in conjunction with the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center), Jilin University, KU Leuven, Michigan State University (in conjunction with the University of Rijeka), University of Notre Dame, University of Pittsburgh (in conjunction with Semester at Sea), Suffolk University (in conjunction with Lund University), Tel Aviv University, University of Hawai'i, University of Michigan, and the University of Washington (Seattle). A proud alumna of the University of Michigan (M.H.S.A. and J.D.) and Cornell University (A.B.), she is an elected member of the American Law Institute and the American Bar Foundation. After graduation from law school, she clerked for both the Honorable A. Leon Higginbotham and the Honorable Dolores J. Sloviter of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, then practiced intellectual property law in Philadelphia. The recipient of a 2026 Bellagio Center Residency from the Rockefeller Foundation and a Jean Monnet Fellowship from the Center for International Economic Law and Justice at New York University School of Law for her intellectual property law research, she has also received grants, taught, and published on topics in race and law, including a co-authored book on the Japanese American incarceration, legal reparations, and national security.
