International Conference: Intellectual Property, Covid-19, and the Next Pandemic: Diagnosing Problems, Developing Cures (5-6 Nov 2021)

Intellectual Property, Covid-19, and the Next Pandemic:

Diagnosing Problems, Developing Cures 

Dates: November 5 – 6, 2021 (Friday – Saturday) 

Time: 8am – 12:30pm (US Eastern Standard Time) 

This conference will be conducted via Zoom. 

This conference is co-organized by the Law and Technology Centre of the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law and the Georgetown University Law Center.  It will be conducted via Zoom and prior registration is required.  More information is available on the conference website: https://www.covidip.hku.hk/.

 Conference organizers

• Madhavi Sunder, Professor of Law and Associate Dean for International and Graduate Programs, Georgetown University Law Center
• Haochen Sun, Associate Professor of Law, University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law
  

Keynote speakers

• Edward Kwakwa, Assistant Director General, Global Challenges and Partnerships Sector, World Intellectual Property Organization
• William Fisher, WilmerHale Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Faculty Director, Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School
• Ruth Okediji, Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School
  

Panel speakers & moderators

• Kashish Aneja, Consultant, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law Center
• Olufunmilayo Arewa, Murray H. Shusterman Professor of Transactional and Business Law, Temple University Beasley School of Law
• Anupam Chander, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
• Jorge L. Contreras, Presidential Scholar and Professor of Law and Director of Program on Intellectual Property Law & Policy, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law
• Rochelle Dreyfuss, Pauline Newman Professor of Law and Co-Director, Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy, New York University School of Law
• Lawrence Gostin, University Professor and Faculty Director, O’Neill Institute for National & Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law Center
• Calvin Ho, Associate Professor of Law and Co-Director, Centre for Medical Ethics and Law, University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law
• Eric Ip, Associate Professor of Law and Research Fellow, Centre for Medical Ethics and Law, University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law
• Amy Kapczynski, Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Global Health Justice Partnership, Yale Law School
• Matthew Kavanagh, Assistant Professor of Global Health and Director, Global Health Policy and Politics Initiative, O'Neill Institute, Georgetown University
• Priti Krishtel, Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of Initiative for Medicines, Access & Knowledge (I-MAK)
• Sapna Kumar, Professor of Law, John Mixon Chair and Co-Director for the Institute for Intellectual Property and Information Law, University of Houston Law Center
• Peter Lee, Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law, University of California, Davis, School of Law
• Laura Pedraza-Fariña, Professor of Law, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
• Nicholson Price, Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School
• Arti Rai, Elvin R. Latty Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law
• Jerome Reichman, Bunyan S. Womble Professor of Law, Duke University Law School
• Ana Santos Rutschman, Assistant Professor of Law, Saint Louis University School of Law
• Ken Shadlen, Professor of Development Studies, Department of International Development, London School of Economics and Political Science
• Jayashree Watal, Former Staff Member, WTO’s Intellectual Property Division and Honorary Professor, National Law University Delhi
• Peter Yu, Regents Professor of Law and Communication and Director, Center for Law and Intellectual Property, Texas A&M University School of Law

All are welcome!  More information about this event is available on the conference website.  Please register as soon as possible.

Please direct any inquiries to Ms. Grace Chan at mcgrace@hku.hk or (+852) 3917 4727.