Faculty Activities
May 2017
Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Professor Cynthia Alkon:
- Taught an arbitration class and served as a guest speaker at the Royal University of Law and Economics (RULE) in Phnom Penh, Cambodia (May 24, 2017).
- Served as co-faculty leader on the Texas A&M Global Law Field Trip to Cambodia.
Professor Irene Calboli:
- As a Visiting Professor at the Centre of International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI), University of Strasbourg (France), part of the Master in Intellectual Property, delivered three lectures: “Non-Traditional Trademarks”; “3D Printing”; and “Geographical Indications” (May 15-19, 2017).
- Invited as Distinguished Guest Speaker at the LL.M. Course in Intellectual Property Law, Faculty of Law, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain). She delivered two lectures: “Intellectual Property Exhaustion” and “3D Printing and the Luxury Industry” (May 12, 2017).
- Organized and moderated a panel on “The Future of Trademarks in a World of Mega-Regional Agreements” featuring Probir Metha, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, Lauma Buka, DG Trade, European Commission, and Daren Tang, Intellectual Property Office of Singapore, at the Annual Meeting of the International Trademark Association, Barcelona, Spain (May 24, 2017).
- Participated in the meeting of the Legislation and Regulation Committee of the International Trademark Association as one of the members in charge of revising the current Trademark Model Law by the International Trademark Association.
Professor Paul George :
- Named the Reporter for the new Uniform Law Commission project, Joint Drafting Committee on Registration of Foreign Judgments to Harmonize the Law of Canada and the United States (May 2017).
Associate Dean for Global Programs Charlotte Ku:
- Elected to the Board of Directors of the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS) for a three year term (May 2017).
- Presented “What is International Law and How Does it Work?” to students in the Master’s Program, Royal University of Law and Economics, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
- Served as co-faculty leader on the Texas A&M Global Law Field Trip to Cambodia.
Professor Glynn Lunney:
- Presented “An Introduction to International Trademark Law” and “Trademark’s Judicial De-Evolution” at the International Trademark Association (INTA) Annual Meeting in Barcelona, Spain (May 20-23, 2017).
Director of Program Development and Senior Lecturer Jack Manhire:
Professor Thomas W. Mitchell:
- Served as co-faculty leader with Vice Dean Aric Short on the Texas A&M Global Law Field Trip to Ghana for ten Texas A&M Law students. The group assisted with a U.S. Forest Service Southern Research Station research project, working alongside a U.S. Forest Service employee and a lecturer from Canada who served as part of the research team (May 14-25, 2017).
Professor Timothy Mulvaney:
- Invited to present “Property and Democracy” at the 2018 Cambridge Centre for Property Law Conference at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, UK (May 25-26, 2018).
Vice Dean Aric Short:
- Served as co-faculty leader with Professor Thomas Mitchell on the Texas A&M Global Law Field Trip to Ghana for ten Texas A&M Law students. The group assisted with a U.S. Forest Service Southern Research Station research project, working alongside a U.S. Forest Service employee and a lecturer from Canada who served as part of the research team (May 14-25, 2017).
Professor Elizabeth Trujillo:
- Presented a seminar on her paper “Regulatory Cooperation in International Trade & its Transformative Effects on Executive Power” at the Center for Political Science and Constitutional Law Studies (Centro de Estudios Politicos y Constitucionales) in Madrid, Spain. The Center is a prestigious interdisciplinary research institution, affiliated with the Ministry for the Presidency in Spain, specializing in constitutional law, international law, and socio-political issues, especially as they relate to Spain, Europe and Latin America (May 11, 2017).
Professor Saurabh Vishnubhakat:
- Presented a talk titled “Patent Literacy and Federative Access to Legal Services” at the 9th Conference on Innovation and Communications Law, hosted at the University of Szeged and co-sponsored by an academic consortium including the Texas A&M University School of Law (May 29–30, 2017).
Professor Peter Yu:
- Spoke at the China Intellectual Property Roadshow on "Lone Star Strategies for IP in China" at Belo Mansion in Dallas, organized by the Texas Regional Office of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in conjunction with the Intellectual Property Law Section of the Dallas Bar Association (May 2, 2017).
- Presented "The Rise of China as an Intellectual Property Power" as part of another China Intellectual Property Roadshow organized by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, held at Bracewell LLP in Houston in conjunction with the Houston Intellectual Property Law Association (May 5, 2017).
- Addressed questions concerning the draft international instruments developed by the World Intellectual Property Organization's Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore at a meeting organized by the Native American Rights Fund and the University of Colorado Law School in Boulder (May 4, 2017).
- Made an opening presentation on "TRIPS Flexibilities and the Access to Medicines Debate" at the Access to Medicines: Policy and Practice Symposium organized by the Rethinking Regulation Program at Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University (May 22, 2017).
- Delivered a paper on "A Spatial Critique of Intellectual Property Law and Policy" and chaired a panel on "Intellectual Property Doctrines" at the 9th Annual Conference on Innovation and Communications Law at the University of Szeged in Hungary, which he co-founded a decade ago (May 29-30, 2017).