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The courses I teach reflect my research projects and practical experience regarding intellectual property and technology innovation.
I offer a course called Inter-Disciplinary Studies in Digital Music, a unique multinational and multidisciplinary survey of the global digital music scene. We cover legal, social, technological, and commercial aspects of the music business in countries around the world. The overarching objective is to think broadly about the policies affecting the future of digital music and, ultimately, the creation and consumption of our own culture.
My new course on Global Intellectual Property Policy is offered only as an elective for first year students. This seminar explores how knowledge governance systems like IP impact some of the world's most pressing public policy challenges, including climate change, hunger, disease, lack of education, poverty, and more. Novel teaching and learning strategies are used to fully engage students in the course materials, all of which are freely accessible from this site.
Property law is a staple course in any law school curriculum, and I've been teaching this course at the University of Ottawa for 7 years. My co-authored/edited casebook is used to cover cutting-edge topics touching on issues of real, personal, intellectual, and aboriginal property rights. Equal emphasis is placed on theoretical and technical aspects of the law, never losing site of the public policy issues and social justice perspectives that are so important in this area.
In the past, I've taught a courses on tort law as well as legal research and writing. I also actively supervise a large number of graduate and undergraduate students working in the area of intellectual property and technological innovation.
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