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PIJIP and South Centre Train WIPO Delegates

Professor Sean Flynn
Professor Sean Flynn

This week, PIJIP Director Sean Flynn is in Geneva, Switzerland, participating in workshops with the South Centre to train delegates on the substantive issues being considered by WIPO committees.

The trainings are co-sponsored by PIJIP’s project on Copyright and the Right to Research.

Biography

Professor Flynn teaches courses on the intersection of intellectual property, trade law, and human rights and is the Director of the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property (PIJIP). At PIJIP, Professor Flynn designs and manages a wide variety of research and advocacy projects that promote the public interest in intellectual property and information law and coordinates PIJIP’s academic program. Professor Flynn Chairs the Global Expert Network on Copyright User Rights and is a founding member of the Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest. He is Editor in Chief of Infojustice.org, a leading public interest law and policy blog. Professor Flynn serves as Principal Investigator of PIJIP’s project on the Right to Research and International Copyright. He is a visiting Scholar at the University of Amsterdam’s Institute for Information Law (IViR) and a Senior Research Associate at the University of Cape Town’s Intellectual Property Unit.