“Change and Continuity in the Global Intellectual Property Order” Symposium

Friday-Saturday, March 28-29, 2025
Center for Law and Intellectual Property (CLIP)
Texas A&M University School of Law
Fort Worth, Texas

Timed around the 30th anniversary of the TRIPS Agreement, this symposium brings together leading scholars of international intellectual property law to explore the latest developments at the World Trade Organization and the World Intellectual Property Organization and at the bilateral, regional, and plurilateral levels.

Presenters

• Prof. Frederick M. Abbott, Florida State University College of Law
• Prof. Clemens Appl, Center for Intellectual Property, Media and Innovation Law, University for Continuing Education Krems (Austria)
• Prof. Bassem Awad, Faculty of Law, Western University (Canada)
• Prof. Margo A. Bagley, Emory University School of Law
• Pedro Henrique D. Batista, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition (Germany)
• Prof. Jeremy De Beer, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa (Canada)
• Dr. Jocelyn Bosse, School of Law, Queen's University Belfast (U.K.)
• Prof. Graeme B. Dinwoodie, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology
• Prof. Rochelle C. Dreyfuss, New York University School of Law (tentative)
• Prof. Aman K. Gebru, University of Houston Law Center
• Prof. Daniel J. Gervais, Vanderbilt University Law School
• Prof. Philipp Homar, Institute of Business Law, Johannes Kepler University Linz (Austria)
• Prof. Mark D. Janis, Indiana University Maurer School of Law
• Dr. Bernd Justin Jütte, Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin (Ireland) (tentative)
• Prof. Sapna Kumar, University of Minnesota Law School
• Prof. Barbara Lauriat, Texas Tech University School of Law
• Prof. Lee Jyh-An, Faculty of Law, Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Prof. Matthias Leistner, Faculty of Law, Ludwig Maximilians University (Germany)
• Prof. Doris Estelle Long, University of Illinois Chicago School of Law
• Prof. Péter Mezei, Faculty of Law, University of Szeged (Hungary)
• Prof. Chidi Oguamanam, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa (Canada)
• Prof. Ruth L. Okediji, Harvard Law School
• Prof. J. Janewa Osei-Tutu, University of Miami School of Law
• Prof. Sarah R. Wasserman Rajec, William & Mary Law School
• Prof. Ana Santos Rutschman, Charles Widger School of Law, Villanova University
• Prof. Rafał Sikorski, Faculty of Law and Administration, Adam Mickiewicz University (Poland)
• Prof. Martin Senftleben, Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
• Prof. Sujitha Subramanian, Liverpool Law School, University of Liverpool (U.K.)
• Prof. Sun Haochen, Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong
• Prof. Narendran Thiruthy, Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law, Indian Institute of Technology—Kharagpur (India)
• Vice-Chancellor V.C. Vivekanandan, Hidayatullah National Law University (India)

Texas A&M University School of Law IP Faculty

• Prof. Hannah Bloch-Wehba
• Prof. Irene Calboli
• Prof. H. Brian Holland
• Prof. Glynn S. Lunney, Jr.
• Prof. Srividhya Ragavan
• Prof. Jeff W. Slattery
• Prof. Peter K. Yu