Stanford Law School
Crown Quad 237
Stanford, CA 94305-8610

jbarton@stanford.edu
(650) 723-2691 (voice)
(650) 725-0253 (fax)

Research Interests
technology law; the transfer of technology to developing nations; intellectual property, particularly as related to biotechnology

John Barton is a professor emeritus at the Stanford Law School, an FSI senior fellow by courtesy, and a CHP/PCOR associate. He has taught at Stanford since 1969, with a variety of courses focused on international law and technology law. His research and publications focus on international scientific research and cooperation, the relationship between intellectual property and antitrust, and the transfer of technology -- particularly vaccine production technology -- to developing countries.

Barton has recently published an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association on the pharmaceutical development process, and is co-author of the product development priorities chapter in the forthcoming book Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries. He has participated extensively in discussions regarding drug access for developing nations. He is also interested in the marketing structure of the pharmaceutical industry and the impact of vaccine regulation on the structure of the international vaccine industry.

For the 2004-05 academic year, Barton was a visiting scholar at the National Institutes of Health's Department of Clinical Bioethics. He chaired the U.K. Commission on Intellectual Property Rights in 2001-2002. He was a member of National Research Council's committees on intellectual property and on genetic resources; of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics committee on gene patenting; and of two working groups of the Sachs Commission on Macroeconomics and Health. He received his undergraduate degree from Marquette University in 1958, and his JD from Stanford in 1968.