The Fifth Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest
American University Washington College of Law
Thursday, September 27, 2018
Opening Plenary
9:00am – 10:15am
TED Talks
10:30am – 11:20am
Big Debate on the Right to Be Forgotten
11:30am – 1:00pm
Ensuring Sustainable Access to Antibiotics
12:40pm – 2:20pm
Public Interest Perspectives on EU Copyright Reform
2:00pm – 3:50pm
Friday, September 28, 2018
AUILR Symposium on IP and Development
9:00am – 10:50am
Using Competition Law to Promote Access to Medicines and other Health Technologies
11:20am – 1:30pm
TED Talks
11:20am –– 2:50pm, 3:00pm – 3:50pm
Book Launch: Copyright’s Excess, by Glynn Lunney
4:00pm – 4:50pm
Keynote Forum - What Can We Learn From the Past About What We Can Achieve in the Future
5:00pm – 7:30pm
Saturday, September 29, 2018
Access to medicines in India, Brazil & South Africa: New Directions from the Global South
9:00am – 10:50am
TED Talks
11:20am – 1:30pm, 1:40pm – 3:30pm
PIJIP News

Professor Vicki Phillips To Be Honored By The DC Bar With The Champion of IP Award
Intellectual Property (IP) Law Community of the District of Columbia (DC) Bar will honor Professor Victoria Phillips with the esteemed Champion of IP Award. The annual Champion of IP Award celebrates an individual who has impacted IP policy, fostered innovation, and passionately advocated for intellectual property rights.
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AUWCL & WIPO Sign an MOU
On April 22nd, Dean Roger Fairfax and Sheriff Saadallah, Executive Director of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Academy, signed a Memorandum of Understanding to continue the close relationship between American University Washington College of Law's (AUWCL) Program on Information Justice & Intellectual Property (PIJIP) and WIPO.
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Professor Michael Carroll Published New Paper "The Triumph of Three Big Ideas in Fair Use Jurisprudence"
Professors Carroll and Peter Jaszi, published a new paper, The Triumph of Three Big Ideas in Fair Use Jurisprudence. The article, published in the Tulane Law Review, argues that the Court’s decisions on fair use, which represent one-third of the Court’s total merits decisions, are historic.
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