Speaker BioMr. Pooley is a world-renowned expert in trade secret law, former Deputy Director-General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), past president of the American Intellectual Property Law Association, Chairman of the Inventors Hall of Fame, Chair of the Sedona Conference Working Group on Trade Secrets, and a visiting professor and practicing attorney at the Universit...
Speaker Bio: Dr Leopoldo Parada is an Associate Professor in Tax Law and Director or the Centre for Business Law and Practice (CBLP) at the University of Leeds School of Law, where he researches on international and European tax law issues. Previously, he held academic positions in Italy, the Netherlands, and Germany, and practised full-time as tax advisor in Chile, Brazil, and the U...
Creativity is what stimulates common lawyers to create new instruments and mechanisms, which are in turn tested in the courts to drive the development of the common law. In this seminar, Professor Loke will look at how creativity has been behind the creation of some of the legal creations we observe today.