Aman K. Gebru, SJD

S.J.D. (Doctor of Juridical Sciences)  University of Toronto Faculty of Law

L.L.M. (Master of Laws) University of Washington School of Law

L.L.B. (Bachelor of Laws) Haramaya University College of Law

Professor Gebru is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Houston Law Center. His research focuses on issues at the intersection of intellectual property law, innovation policy, and knowledge governance from domestic and global perspectives. His recent projects examine how intellectual property laws deal with communally developed innovation and creativity, such as hackathons, memes, dance crazes, and indigenous (traditional) knowledge. His scholarship has been published in or is forthcoming in, among others, the University of Richmond Law Review, Denver Law Review, Cardozo Arts and Entertainment Law Journal, and North Carolina Journal of Law and Technology. 

Before joining the University of Houston Law Center, Professor Gebru served as an Assistant Professor of Law at Duquesne University School of Law, a Visiting Assistant Professor at Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, and a Global Post-Doctoral Fellow at New York University School of Law. He has also taught internationally at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (Canada) and Haramaya University College of Law (Ethiopia). Professor Gebru has taught various courses in three countries including contracts, property, intellectual property law, trademark law, copyright law, patent law, and international intellectual property law.

Faculty profile: https://www.law.uh.edu/faculty/main.asp?PID=7474 

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