Legal Protection of Traditional Knowledge
Professor Aman Gebru
University of Toronto Faculty of Law
Room P105, Jackman Law Building (Lower Level
78 Queen's Park
(Note change of location)
Tuesday, March 20
12:30-2 pm.
This lecture is part two of a three event series on cultural appropriation and the legal protection of traditional knowledge in Canada and beyond.
In this lecture, Professor Aman Gebru will present his paper “Intellectual Property and Bioprospecting: a Model Legal Framework” and discuss the economic implications of cultural appropriation of traditional knowledge and the lack of efficient legal mechanisms to protect it. He will also present alternative mechanisms to protect traditional knowledge. Professor Gebru will highlight the role of governments, local authorities and minority groups in protecting traditional knowledge.
Professor Aman Gebru is a visiting assistant professor at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University. His research interests lie at the intersection of intellectual property law, innovation policy, international trade, and development. His current research focuses on intellectual property law, traditional knowledge, and bioprospecting and it examines the rationales and legal frameworks for the protection of traditional (medicinal) knowledge. His work has appeared in several journals including in the North Carolina Journal of Law and Technology, John Marshall Review of Intellectual Property Law, and Asper Review of International Business and Trade Law and in media outlets including Canadian Lawyer and Slawmagazines. Before joining Cardozo, he was a Global Postdoctoral Fellow at New York University School of Law. Aman has taught courses at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology and at Haramaya University (Ethiopia). He has a doctorate in Juridical Sciences from the University of Toronto, an LL.M. in intellectual property law and policy from the University of Washington, and an LL.B. from Haramaya University. Earlier in his career, Aman worked at Landesa (formerly the Rural Development Institute), a Seattle-based nonprofit advocating for land rights for the poorest one billion people, and at the Prosecutor's Office of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. He is the author of Intellectual Property and Bioprospecting: A Model Legal Framework (North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology Volume 19, Issue 2: December 2017).
This workshop is presented by LLM Candidates Esteban Vallejo-Toledo and Sandrine Ampleman-Trembaly and, and the Indigenous Initiatives Office at University of Toronto, Faculty of Law.
This is a public and free event. All are welcome.
For more information, email:
sandrine.ampleman@mail.utoronto.ca/esteban.vallejotoledo@mail.utoronto.ca/ amanda.carling@utoronto.ca
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