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Thursday, 17 November 2016 - 5.00pm

Location: Thursday, 17 November, 5:00 pm in G24

Professor Tania Voon, Melbourne Law School, will speak on the topic of "Intellectual Property and Tobacco Control: A Case Study of Australia and Uruguay".

This seminar will explore the implications for intellectual property and public health of recent legal challenges against tobacco control in Australia and Uruguay, including issues under Australian constitutional law, international investment law, and the law of the World Trade Organization. These disputes, some of which are continuing, raise enduring questions about the rights of trade mark owners and investors and the level of deference accorded to governments in regulating in the public interest.

Tania Voon (LLM Harvard; PhD Cambridge) is Professor at Melbourne Law School and a former Legal Officer of the WTO Appellate Body Secretariat. She is author of Cultural Products and the World Trade Organization (Cambridge University Press, 2007), editor of Trade Liberalisation and International Co-operation: A Legal Analysis of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (Edward Elgar, 2013), and series editor of Oxford’s International Economic Law Series. Tania is a member of the WTO’s Indicative List of Panelists and the Roster of Panelists for the Energy Charter Treaty. She is currently Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge.

 

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