“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
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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
• Nitya Anand, IP Counsel, Sandoz
• 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)
• Pedro Henrique D. Batista, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition (Germany)
• Dr. Jocelyn Bosse, School of Law, Queen's University Belfast (U.K.)
• Prof. Jeremy De Beer, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa (Canada)
• Prof. Susy Frankel, Faculty of Law, Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand)
• 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)
• Neema Kumar, Vice President, Intellectual Property, North America, Sandoz
• 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. Sarah R. Wasserman Rajec, William & Mary Law School
• Prof. Ana Santos Rutschman, Charles Widger School of Law, Villanova University
• Prof. Martin Senftleben, Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
• Prof. Rafał Sikorski, Faculty of Law and Administration, Adam Mickiewicz University (Poland)
• Prof. Sun Haochen, Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong
• Prof. Madhavi Sunder, Georgetown University Law Center; Hagler Fellow, Texas A&M University School of Law
• Prof. Anjali Vats, University of Pittsburgh School of Law
• Vice-Chancellor V.C. Vivekanandan, Hidayatullah National Law University (India)

Conference Fellows

• Prof. Stefania Fusco, University of Alabama School of Law
• May Har-Shai, Ph.D. Candidate, The Buchmann Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University (Israel)
• Prof. Deepa Varadarajan, Georgia State University College of Law

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