Dr. Raina Haque
Raina Haque is a Professor of Practice of Technology at Wake Forest University School of Law. She is on the editorial board of the MIT Computational Law Report. Her scholarship focuses on computational law & emergent technologies. At Wake Forest School of Law, she teaches courses relating to law, ethics, and technologies that are adopted that challenge legal and regulatory systems. She prioritizes offering hands-on lab experiences to law students who want to enter the intersection of technology and law. She is among the first patent attorneys to work in the blockchain technologies space and has written several articles on guidance on IP-related matters. She’s called to train attorneys in the blockchain space at major law schools and professional lecture series in New York City and Silicon Valley. She is a leading contributor to the North Carolina Bar Association’s Future of the Law annual report on blockchain technologies.
Prior to joining the legal profession, she was a fintech business analyst and software engineer at a major Wall Street financial firm in New York City working in trade, clearance, and settlement global portfolio technologies. She was a research fellow at the National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences in the Neurotoxicology and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance labs working on artificial deep neural network applications and NMR technologies.
Currently: (1) Professor of Practice of Technology, Wake Forest University School of Law, (2) Founding Attorney, Erdõs Intellectual Property Law
Formerly: (1) Adjunct Professor of Computational Law, Affiliate Faculty for the Duke Center for Law and Technology (DCLT), Duke University School of Law, (2)Judicial Law Clerk, United States Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, (3) Software Engineer and Project Manager for Global Markets Portfolio Trading Technologies, Merrill Lynch & Co./Bank of America
Education: (1) J.D., University of North Carolina School of Law, (2) 2007 – B.A. Bioinformatics, Wellesley College