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Dr Ikechi Mgbeoji

Following five years of practice in civil litigation specializing in Commercial Litigation and Intellectual Property Law, Dr. Ikechi Mgbeoji enrolled at the graduate programme of Dalhousie University where he graduated, summa cum laude, with an LLM in 1999. A recipient of the Governor-General's Gold Medal for the highest academic standing at the graduate level in Dalhousie University, Dr. Mgbeoji undertook his doctoral research in Patent Law, graduating, summa cum laude, in 2001. Throughout his academic career, Dr. Mgbeoji has won numerous academic awards, scholarships and fellowships including the Killam Scholarship and the Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft Award.

Prior to joining Osgoode Hall Law School in July 2003, Dr. Mgbeoji taught Intellectual Property, Torts, and Advanced Seminar in Patents at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Dr. Mgbeoji's teaching and research interests are in Patent Law, Trademarks, Copyrights, Trade Secrets, International Law on the Use of Force, International Environmental Law, Biotechnology and Law, Comparative Intellectual Property Law, Indigenous Peoples, and Anthropology.

Dr. Mgbeoji has authored one book, Collective Insecurity: The Liberian Crisis, Unilateralism, & Global Order and has co-authored another book, Environmental Law in Developing Countries: Selected Issues. His third book on Biopiracy: Patents and the Appropriation of Indigenous Peoples Knowledge will be published in 2005. He is in addition, a consultant to the Environmental Law Center of the World Conservation Union (IUCN). Dr. Mgbeoji is currently working on a treatise on Canadian Patent Law.

Selected Publications

Books

  • Global Biopiracy: Patents, Plants and Indigenous Knowledge (UBC Press/ George Washington University Press 2005)

  • Collective Insecurity: The Liberian Crisis, Unilateralism, & Global Order (UBC Press, Vancouver, 2003)

  • Environmental Law in Developing Countries: Selected Issues (co-authored with Isabel Martinez, Nazrul Islam and Wang XI) (IUCN, Cambridge, 2001)

  • Book Chapter "Patents and Plant Resources-related Knowledge: Towards a Regime of Communal Patents for Plant Resources-related Knowledge" in Nasrul Islam, et al, eds., Environmental Law in Developing Countries: Selected Issues (IUCN, Cambridge, 2001)

Papers in Scholarly Journals

  • "Patent First, Litigate Later! The Scramble for Speculative and Overly Broad Genetic Patents: Implications for Access to Health Care and Bio-medical Research" [2003] Vol. 2, No. 2 Canadian Journal of Law and Technology 83-98

  • "The Juridical Origins of The International Patent System: Toward A Historiography of The Role of Patents In Industrialization" [2003] 5 Journal of the History of International Law 399-418

  • "Coalitions of the Willing" and Non-Defensive Use of Force: The Legitimacy of Canada's Participation in International Conflicts Without UN Authorization and Parliamentary Assent [2003] Vol. 8 (2) Review of Constitutional Studies

  • "(Under)Mining the Seabed?" The ISA Mining Code, Precautionary Tales, and Sustainable Use of Hydrothermal Vent Ecosystems in the International Seabed Area (2003-4) Vol. 18 Ocean Yearbook 537

  • "Beyond Rhetoric: State Sovereignty, Common Concern, and the Inapplicability of the Common Heritage Concept to Plant Genetic Resources" (2003-4) Leiden Journal of International Law 821

  • "Patents and Traditional Knowledge of the Uses of Plants: Is a Communal Patent Regime Part of the Solution to the Scourge of Bio-Piracy?" (2001) 9 Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 163

Book Reviews

  • "Who Owns Academic Work? Battling for Control of Intellectual Property" 2003 [May] CAUT Bulletin 6

  • Environmental Law: A Guide To Concepts 2000 Dalhousie Journal Of Legal Studies 63

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