Publications

Social Sciences and Research Network (SSRN) Author Page: Aman Gebru

Link: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2055207

Law Review Articles

• Remediating Cultural Appropriation, Arizona State Law Journal (Forthcoming 2025)

• Communal Authorship, 58 University of Richmond Law Rev 337 (2024)

·       Subject of the Sidore Lecture, Plymouth State University (November 2024)

·       Subject of interview with Professor J. Janewa Osei-Tutu (University of Miami)

·       Highlighted in a blog post by attorney Francis Wayo about a viral dance in Nigeria  

• The Piracy Paradox and Indigenous Fashion, 39 CARDOZO ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT LAW JOURNAL 607 (2021) (invited)

·   Subject of interview with Aydan Urias, Staff Editors, Vol. 42, Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal (March 14, 2024)

• Patents, Disclosure, & Biopiracy, 96 Denver Law Review 535 (2019).

·   Reviewed by Professor Sarah Burstein, How to Thwart Biopiracy, JOTWELL (Journal of Things We Like Lots) (January 2021); Assigned reading in Professor Burstein's patent law class

·   Reviewed by Professor Camilla Hrdy, Compelling Disclosure of Traditional Knowledge in Patents, Written Description Blog (September 2018)

• Intellectual Property Law and Bioprospecting: A Model Legal Framework, 19 North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology 257 (2017).

• The Global Protection of Traditional Knowledge: Searching for the Minimum Consensus, 17 John Marshall Review of Intellectual Property Law 42 (2017).

• Intellectual Property Law and the Protection of Traditional Knowledge: From Cultural Conservation to Knowledge Codification, 15 Asper Review of International Business & Trade Law 293 (2015) (peer reviewed).

·       Reviewed by Slaw Magazine, Gebru on Protecting Traditional Knowledge Through Sui Generis I.P. Law  (March 3, 2016)

·       Quoted by Canadian Lawyer Magazine, I.P. Back to the Future (June 6, 2016)

• Environmental Permitting in Ethiopia: No restraint on "Unstoppable Growth?", 1 Haramaya Law Review 73 (2012) (with James Krueger & Inqu Asnake) (peer reviewed).

Book Chapter

• • The Teff Patents: A Case Study of the International Access and Benefit Sharing Mechanism in Intellectual Property Rights and Africa (Ruth Okediji, ed. Forthcoming, 2025)

  • Disclosure of Origins as a Bridge Between Worlds in Encyclopedia of Intellectual Property Law (Paul Torremans, Irini Stamatoudi, Peter K. Yu, and Bernd Justin Jütte, eds., Edgar, Forthcoming, 2025)

  • Biopiracy as an Abuse of the Patent System in Intellectual Property Excesses (Enrico Bonadio and Aislinn O'Connell, eds.) (Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2022)

Other Selected Writings                            

• Is there a Legal Remedy against Cultural Appropriation? The Houston Lawyer Magazine (July/August 2024) (Invited)

• COVID-19: Are we really in this together? The Africa Report (2021).

• Toward Legal Recognition of Traditional Knowledge as Intellectual Property, 7 Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage, 7 Desired Futures Newsletter 12 (2016).

• Analyzing the Controversial Claim for Contributory Trademark Dilution, Seattle Trademark Lawyer (2012).   

• Large Scale Acquisitions of Land in Ethiopia, Focus on Land in Africa, World Resource Institute and Landesa (2012) (with Darryl Vhugen).