Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property

Congratulations to Professor Michael Carroll who was awarded a 2019-2020 WCL Teaching and Service Award for Outstanding Service. This award recognizes a faculty member’s outstanding service either outside or within the law school or university.  External service may include, but is not limited to, involvement with local or national organizations, professional associations and bodies, pro bono work, and volunteer work. Internal service may include, but is not limited to, involvement with faculty committees, support to student organizations, and collaborations with other offices at WCL.

Professor Farley will be interviewed during a “Fireside Chat on Women in IP Law” as a part of the Global Summit for ChIPs.

On November 3rd, Professor Sean Flynn will be presenting on the Right to Research in Comparative Copyright Law at the 14th meeting of the Congresso de Direito de Autor e Interesse Público (CODAIP), the largest national conference in Brazil on copyright and the public interest.

The roundtable discussion, to be held on October 22, 2020, will be hosted by the American Branch International Law Association Committee on International Intellectual Property.

A new article co-authored by Jonas Anderson, Associate Dean of Scholarship and Professor of Law, and Paul Gugliuzza of Temple University Beasley School of Law is now available on SSRN. Federal Judge Seeks Patent Cases discusses the implications of the centralization of patent cases before a single judge.

The Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property and Technology, Law, & Security Program at Digital Commons at American University Washington College of Law present a new working paper -- Transplanting Fair Use Across the Globe: A Case Study Testing the Credibility of U.S. Opposition which discusses the United States’s opposition to the transplanting of U.S. fair use to other countries. The article is available on the AUWCL Digital Commons website.