IPLion: Congratulations to Jeremy Phillips
Congratulations to Professor Jeremy Phillips on his appointment as the first Dean of the newly formed Law Faculty of the University of Botswana . Law had previously been taught at the University to master's level within the Faculty of Social Science. The new Law Faculty will be the sixth Faculty of the University, One of Jeremy's first responsibilities will be to give the keynote speech to the WIPO regional conference on traditional knowledge, genetic resources and traditional cultural expressions/folklore which is due to take place in Gabarone next month. This conference is sponsored jointly by the D epartment for International Development and and the UK Intellectual Property Office. Commenting on his appointment, Dave Morgan of the UK IPO said "Jeremy is one of the few international academic lawyers with a genuine interest in Africa as is evidenced by his participation in the afro-ip blog . We're expecting great things from the conference and great thi...