Rebecca S. Eisenberg, the Robert and Barbara Luciano Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, specializes in patent law and the regulation of biopharmaceutical innovation.

Eisenberg, who joined the Michigan Law faculty in 1984, teaches courses about patent law, trademark law, international intellectual property law, and US Food and Drug Administration law, and runs workshops about intellectual property and student scholarship.

She has written and lectured extensively about the role of intellectual property in biopharmaceutical research, publishing in leading law reviews and scientific journals. She spent the 1999–2000 academic year as a visiting professor of law, science, and technology at Stanford Law School and the spring of 2012 as a visiting scholar at the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology.

Eisenberg has played an active role in public policy debates concerning the role of intellectual property in biopharmaceutical research, advising the National Institutes of Health and the National Academies of Science. She practiced law as a litigator in San Francisco.