NEWS RELEASE
October 17, 2006
Center for Law and Technology Speaker Series
Counsellor from UN’s World Intellectual Property Organization to Speak
SAN DIEGO - The Thomas Jefferson School of Law Center for Law and Technology welcomes Todd Larson of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) on Monday, October 23rd. He’ll be speaking from 4:45 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. in the Courtyard Building, Room 200.
Mr. Larson serves as Senior Counsellor (British spelling) at WIPO’s New York Coordination Office and he will be discussing this specialized agency of the United Nations, which is dedicated to developing a balanced and accessible international intellectual property system as well as promoting the protection of intellectual property throughout the world through cooperation among states and in collaboration with other international organizations.
Based at United Nations Headquarters, Mr. Larson undertakes extensive outreach throughout North America on behalf of WIPO. He has been with the United Nations system for more than 15 years, previously serving in the field with both the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations.
This event is sponsored by the Thomas Jefferson School of Law’s Center for Law and Technology under the leadership of Professor Sandra Rierson. The Center addresses the legal challenges engendered by the extraordinary pace of technological development of the last half century. Scientific inventions force a re-examination of legal concepts, creating problems that lawyers and judges have just begun to identify. For instances, while the Internet and the telecommunications industry challenge traditional notions of speech, cloning forces a re-examination of the meaning of reproduction and family.
For more information, on Mr. Larson’s presentation, e-mail Professor Julie Cromer at jcromer@tjsl.edu. You can visit the WIPO website at: http://www.wipo.int/about-ip/en/