Margaret Jane Radin

Margaret Jane Radin, the Henry King Ransom Professor Emerita of Law at the University of Michigan, retired in May 2015. She taught courses in contracts and patents and international intellectual property. She also taught property theory, Internet commerce, and a student scholarship seminar.

Radin’s book Boilerplate (Princeton University Press, 2013), winner of the Scribes Book Award 2014, explores the problems posed for the legal system by adhesion contracts and how they might be ameliorated. She also has written two books exploring the problems of propertization, Contested Commodities (Harvard University Press, 1996) and Reinterpreting Property (University of Chicago Press, 1993), and co-authored a casebook, Internet Commerce: The Emerging Legal Framework, 2nd ed. (Foundation Press, 2005).

Radin has held chaired professorships at the University of Southern California and Stanford University, and she has served as a visiting professor at Harvard University, the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Toronto, and New York University. In 2006-2007, she was the inaugural Microsoft Fellow in Law and Public Affairs at Princeton University.

She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the American Law Institute. She was advanced to candidacy for the PhD in musicology at University of California, Berkeley before she changed her career path to law. She is a devoted amateur flutist.