Intellectual Property Law and Food Security

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Events

The automation of various aspects of legal services delivery, from discovery and due diligence to predictive analytics, have raised questions for university and continuing legal education. To work effectively alongside technology, lawyers will need to understand it, not by learning to code, but by grasping the underlying logics.

This workshop will explore some of the key challenges that synthetic biology poses for national and international regulatory frameworks, and consider possible solutions.

Professor Brad Sherman on patent law and software.

Presenter: Ms Jocelyn Bosse, PhD student at the TC Beirne School of Law and a former Treasurer of ALPSA

Dr Kamalesh Adhikari, workshop convenor

Professor Jimmy Botella, School of Agriculture, the University of Queensland, Assistant Professor Ben Hurlbut, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, and Associate Professor Ainsley Newson, Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, University of Sydney

Dr Kamalesh Adhikari and David Jefferson, workshop co-convenors.

Organised by Susannah M Chapman (University of Queensland) and Tad Brown (University of Georgia, Athens).