In May 2022, Texas A&M Law Professor Irene Calboli was invited as an Expert to the 42nd Session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
PROFESSOR CALBOLI PRESENTS AT WIPO COPYRIGHT COMMITTEE
Topics: Law Professor, intellectual property, Faculty Highlights, WIPO
Texas A&M Law Offers LL.M. Program Serving Lawyers from Developing Countries
Texas A&M University School of Law is now accepting applications for an LL.M. program with an emphasis in international intellectual property law that will focus on assisting students in developing countries.
Building on previous successful India programs at the law school, the new LL.M. program allows students to participate online from across the globe, and creates access to best-in-class legal education for lawyers in developing countries like India, across South Asia, and elsewhere.
Topics: intellectual property, global engagement
Books by two Profs are Among the Best for 2021
Texas A&M Law Professors Irene Calboli and Srividya Ragavan were once again recognized as distinguished Intellectual Property (IP) scholars by colleagues across the world.
Topics: Law Professor, intellectual property, IP, faculty
Professor Peter Yu Listed Sixth Most-Cited Younger Legal Scholar
The recently published article The Most-Cited Legal Scholars Revisited from the University of Chicago Law Review lists Texas A&M Law Professor Peter K. Yu sixth among the most-cited legal scholars born after 1970 across all fields.
The study was conducted by Fred Shapiro, Associate Library Director at Yale Law School and the editor of the Oxford Dictionary of American Legal Quotations.
Topics: Law Professor, Peter Yu, intellectual property, CLIP, faculty
Univ. of Oxford to pre-launch Prof. Yu's co-edited book on IP & global inequality
In late May, the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre at the University of Oxford, in collaboration with the Haifa Centre for Law and Technology at the University of Haifa in Israel, will hold a pre-launch of the book Intellectual Property, Innovation, and Global Inequality.
Forthcoming from Cambridge University Press, this interdisciplinary book is co-edited by Professor Daniel Benoliel of the University of Haifa Faculty of Law, Francis Gurry, the director general of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) from 2008 to 2020, Professor Keun Lee of the department of economics at Seoul National University in South Korea and Regents Professor Peter Yu of Texas A&M University.
This pre-launch event, entitled "Inequality Through IP: A New Policy Lever?" is organized by Professor Benoliel and Professors Robert Burrell and Dev Gangjee of the University of Oxford. More information is available online.Topics: Peter Yu, intellectual property, faculty and staff, faculty
Professor Calboli Co-Organizes the Third IPIRA Conference Online
On March 24-27, 2021, Professor Irene Calboli co-organized the Third Annual IPIRA Conference. Hosted virtually by the IP & Innovation Research of Asia (IPIRA) Network, the Third IPIRA Conference gathered over 300 presenters, chairs, and participants from Asia-Pacific, North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
Topics: Law Professor, irene calboli, intellectual property
Professor Calboli Awarded Fulbright-Hanken Distinguished Chair in Business and Economics
The U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board recently announced that Professor Irene Calboli has been awarded a Fulbright-Hanken Distinguished Chair in Business and Economics for 2021-22 to lecture and research in Helsinki, Finland.
Topics: Law Professor, irene calboli, intellectual property, global engagement, faculty and staff
TAMU Law Co-Hosts 18th Annual Works-in-Progress IP Colloquium
This year, the 18th Annual Works-in-Progress Intellectual Property Colloquium (WIPIP), co-organized by Professors Glynn Lunney and Irene Calboli in partnership with American University’s Professor Christine Haight Farley and University of Utah University’s Professor Jorge Contreras, was a virtual event held over two successive weekends, February 11-13 and 18-20, 2021.
Topics: Law Professor, intellectual property
TAMU Law prof.'s book named IPKat's 2020 Best Book on Trade Mark Law
Texas A&M University School of Law Professor Irene Calboli's book, The Cambridge Handbook of International and Comparative Trademark Law, was selected as IPKat's 2020 Best Book on Trade Mark Law.
In 2018, Calboli was recognized for her book, The Protection of Non-Traditional Trademarks: Critical Perspectives. According to Calboli, it is very rare to be acknowledged numerous times.
"The Annual Book Awards by the IPKat Blogs are amongst the most relevant awards in the IP fields and are widely recognized by IP practitioners and academics across the world. Many excellent books are usually selected as finalists and only very few are selected as winners. I am very happy that my book has been selected as this year winner," says Calboli.
The book can be used by professors teaching courses in International IP and Trademark Law. It may also be used by professionals practicing in the area, mostly trademark law professionals, and by researchers conducting research in the field.
"We were very fortunate that we could work with a stellar group of contributors, without question the who is who list of trademark law professors and professionals. This made our work very interesting and fun," says Calboli.
Topics: irene calboli, intellectual property, trademark law
Professor Calboli Presents at WIPO and EU
On November 24, 2020, Texas A&M Law Professor Irene Calboli was one of the distinguished speakers to address the Information Session on Geographical Indications. The online session was part of the 43rd Session of the Standing Committee on Trademarks, Industrial Design, and Geographical Indications (SCT) of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
Topics: irene calboli, intellectual property, Faculty Highlights, global engagement