Margaret Jane Radin is a professor at University of Michigan Law School

University of Michigan Law School

The University of Michigan Law School is the law school of the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor. Founded in 1859, the school has an enrollment of about 1,200 students, most of whom are seeking Juris Doctor or Master of Laws degrees, although the school also offers a Doctor of Juridical...

. She is well-known for her work on property law and her emphasis on the theory of commodification

Commodification

Commodification is the transformation of goods, ideas, or other entities that may not normally be regarded as goods into a commodity....

. In particular, she holds that the buying and selling of things, such as body parts, can diminish human dignity and the value of human life. As such, she argues that these goods should be made inalienable

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, to prevent markets from arising which distort the worth of human beings. Radin also works in the field of intellectual property

Intellectual property

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, particularly in cyberspace

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Radin received her A.B. in music from Stanford in 1963, her M.F.A. in Music History from Brandeis University

Brandeis University

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 in 1965, and became a Ph.D. candidate in music at Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

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 in 1968. She received her J.D. from the University of Southern California Law School

University of Southern California Law School

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 in 1976. Prior to joining the Stanford law faculty in 1990, she was a professor of law at USC. Radin has also taught at UCLA and Harvard University

Harvard University

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 as a visiting professor, and was formerly the William Benjamin Scott and Luna M. Scott Professor of Law at Stanford Law School

Stanford Law School

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. She is the author of two books and over thirty scholarly articles.

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