Faculty Activities
March 2017
Professor Sahar Aziz:
Associate Dean William Byrnes :
- Invited to speak at Education 4.0, Education in the Fourth Industrial Revolution in Chennai, India, Apr. 22, 2017
- Quoted in “Amazon, Chevron tax disputes highlight uncertainty in litigating against multinationals,” The Sydney Morning Herald (Mar. 27, 2017).
Professor Irene Calboli:
- Served as a member of the scientific committee organizing the International Law Weekend—South conference: The Global Future of International Trade, Human Rights, and Development at Texas A&M University School of Law, Fort Worth, Texas. Calboli also served as chair and moderator for the panel "Intellectual Property and Trade Agreements" at the same conference (Mar. 2-3, 2017).
- Elected as Member of the Council, International Law Association, Singapore Branch (Mar. 2017).
- Presented "Copyright Reforms in Singapore: What Future for Fair Dealing?" at the Globalizing Fair Use conference at American University College of Law, Washington, D.C. (Mar. 29, 2017).
- Served as discussant at the roundtable “Copyright Balance in International Trade Law,” American University College of Law, Washington, D.C. (Mar. 28, 2017).
- Presented "The Protection of GIs in Asia-Pacific" at the 5th Asia Pacific Forum Challenges and Opportunities for IP Protection, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan (Mar. 17-19, 2017).
Professor Gabriel Eckstein:
Associate Dean and Professor Luz Herrera:
Associate Dean Charlotte Ku:
Professor Srividhya Ragavan:
Professor Elizabeth Trujillo:
Professor Peter Yu:
- Joined the five-member External Advisory Board of the European Intellectual Property Institutes Network Innovation Society, which is funded by the European Commission (Mar. 2017).
- Co-chaired International Law Weekend—South: The Global Future of International Trade, Human Rights, and Development, the South regional meeting of the American Branch of the International Law Association, at Texas A&M University School of Law (Mar. 2-3, 2017).
- Presented his forthcoming book chapter, “Biobanking, Scientific Productions and Human Rights,” at Global Genes, Local Concerns: A Symposium on Legal, Ethical and Scientific Challenges in International Biobanking, organized by the Centre for Information and Innovation Law at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark (Mar. 16, 2017).
- Delivered a public lecture on "Intellectual Property in Free Trade Agreements: Conflict, Coexistence or Convergence?" at the School of Law at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy (Mar. 20, 2017).
- Spoke on "Primary and Secondary Liability of Intermediaries in U.S. Law" at the International Symposium, Online Platforms and Intermediaries in Copyright Law, organized by Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, Germany (Mar. 23-24, 2017).
- Participated in the "Copyright Balance in International Trade Law" roundtable organized by the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property at American University Washington College of Law and the American University International Law Review (Mar. 28, 2017).
- Organized the Intellectual Property and Global Development: Fifty Years After Stockholm Symposium at Texas A&M University School of Law in Fort Worth (Mar. 31-Apr. 1, 2017).