Speaking & Writing

Intellectual Property. Human rights. Traditional Knowledge.

IOWA CEO Circles, presentation: “Respect the Culture.”
Phillipe Charles “Race & Intellectual Property” podcast interview: culture, race and intellectual property.
Intellectual Property & Identity in Post-Pandemic, “Right of Publicity and Cultural/Commercial Identity,” presentation for Indiana University Symposium /Continuing Legal Education.
Black Physicians of Canada, consultation on cultural and intellectual property considerations for logo development.

“Not Nike’s Satan Shoes: Is it Trademark Infringement & Dilution? PrawfsBlawg, (March 31, 2021).

“Cultural IP v. Commercial IP,” (reprinted) GPS Solo Magazine, selected for “Best of Sections,” (ABA, July/August 2020).

“Cultural IP v. Commercial IP,” Landslide Magazine: Culture and Collaboration in Global IP (ABA March/April 2020).

“IP, Social Justice & Human Development: Empowering Female Entrepreneurs through Trademark Law,” in The Cambridge Handbook of Intellectual Property And Social Justice, Lateef Mtima and Steven D. Jamar, Eds. (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2021).
“IP and Development” in Handbook on Intellectual Property Research, Irene Calboli and Lilla Montagnani, Eds. (Oxford University Press, 2021).
“IP in the African Union: Opportunities for New Discourse?” in Mapping Three Generations of Access to Medicines Discourses, Sri Ragavan and Amaka Vanni, Eds. (Routledge, 2021).
“Protecting Culturally Identifiable Fashion: What Role for GIs?” Symposium: Made in Italy, The Law of Food, Wine and Design, 14 FIU L. Rev. 545 (2021).
“Socially Responsible Corporate IP,” Symposium: International Trade’s Effects on Intellectual Property and Human Rights, 21 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L. 483 (2019).
“Harmonizing Cultural IP Across Borders, (invited symposium) 51 Akron L. Rev. 1198 (2018).
“Humanizing Intellectual Property,” 20 Vand. J. Ent & Tech. L. 207 (2017).