IP Speaker Series - Professor Dalyindyebo Shabalala

Join us as we welcome Professor Dalyindyebo Shabalala, who will be visiting GW Law School to present his article “Do We Need Exit Rules for Traditional Knowledge? Lessons from Solomon Linda, and the Mbube/‘The Lion Sleeps Tonight’ case” (Queen Mary’s Journal of Intellectual Property (12(4)) forthcoming 2022. This research project uses the case study of an individual Zulu artist to ask the question of “whether, in focusing on actions by outsiders, policymakers and scholars have minimized or elided the crucial role played by ‘insiders’ in the process of misappropriation.”

Professor Shabalala is Associate Professor at the University of Dayton School of Law, where he conducts research broadly in the areas of IP and climate change law. His work has a particular focus on the impacts of international intellectual property treaties on the rights of indigenous peoples to control their traditional knowledge and cultures.

This event will be hybrid format and lunch will be provided in accordance with GW policy.