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I'm an Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa's Faculty of Law, specializing in technology and intellectual property law.
I have a graduate degree in law from the University of Oxford, and degrees in business and in law from the University of Saskatchewan. Before entering academia I practiced law with the Department of Justice, as legal counsel to the Copyright Board of Canada. I was also the law clerk to Justice Allen Linden at the Federal Court of Appeal, and before that worked at the firm of Macleod Dixon LLP in Calgary, Alberta.
My research and recent publications address topics ranging from digital copyrights to biotechnology patents, with particular emphasis on the intersection of technology, intellectual property and international development. I am also interested in administrative law and litigation relating to intellectual property, and have experience arguing on this subject at the appellate level.
I teach an introductory course on Property Law, which covers contemporary and engaging issues in real, personal and intellectual property, and Digital Music, a multi-disciplinary and multi-national seminar covering legal, technological, cultural and commercial developments in the global music industry. I also teach a seminar on Global Intellectual Property Policy, which examines relationships among international IP regimes and global challenges like climate change, hunger, disease, lack of education, poverty and more.
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