Ryan Abbott
Professor Ryan Abbott is a leading expert in law, health sciences, and technology. He is currently Professor of Law and Health Sciences at the University of Surrey School of Law and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine atUCLA. He is also a partner at Brown, Neri, Smith & Khan, LLP, where he focuses on litigation related to life sciences and technology. He is a licensed physician, solicitor advocate in England and Wales, patent attorney, and board-certified by the American Board of Legal Medicine.
Professor Abbott has published widely on topics involving intellectual property, artificial intelligence, healthcare, and dispute resolution. His bookThe Reasonable Robot:Artificial Intelligenceand the Lawwas published by Cambridge University Press in 2020. He edited theResearch Handbook on Intellectual Property and Artificial Intelligence(Edward Elgar, 2022) and co-authored the textbookInternational Intellectual Property in an Integrated World Economy, 5th edition (2024).
He has presented evidence before the U.S. Senate, the U.K. House of Lords, and theEuropean Commission. He regularly speaks at universities such as MIT, Stanford, Yale, Oxford, and Cambridge, and has given talks for organisations including WIPO, WTO, IBM, Novartis, and the UKIPO. His work has been featured in major media including The Times, New York Times, and Financial Times.
He is a mediator with JAMS, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb), and a panelist with several dispute resolution bodies. He has contributed to AI-related IP reform discussions globally and led initiatives like the Artificial Inventor Project. He has also worked on public health and pharmaceutical policy, including research on sustainable pharmaceutical manufacturing in Africa.Professor Abbott earned his MD from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, his JD from Yale Law School, and his PhD in Law from the University of Surrey School of Law. He also graduatedSumma Cum Laudewith an MTOM from Emperor’s College and with a BS from the University of California, Los Angeles.
