Professor Niva Elkin-Koren, of Haifa Center for Law and Technology delivered the twelth Annual International Intellectual Property Lecture (funded from the Herchel Smith Bequest) at Emmanuel College entitled 'Fair Use by Design' on 14 March 2016 as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law).

Professor Niva Elkin-Koren is the founding director of the Haifa Center for Law & Technology (HCLT) and the former dean of the University of Haifa, Faculty of Law. She is also a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.

Her research focuses on the legal institutions that facilitate private and public control over the production and dissemination of information. She has written and spoken extensively about the privatization of information policy, private ordering, economic analysis of intellectual property, technology transfer and legal strategies for enhancing the public domain. From 2002 to 2006 she was a Member of the Israeli Cinema Commission. She is currently a member of the Patent Authority Audit Commission in Israel, a member of the Academic Directors and Steering Committee of the Jerusalem Center for Ethics, Mishkenot Shaananim, and a co-founder of the Alliance of Israeli Institutions of Higher Education for Promoting Access to Scientific Materials. She is the Chair of the Scientific Advisory Council, of the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society in Berlin, a member of the Executive Committee of Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP), and an Advisory Board Member of the Information Program of the Open Society Foundation.

Prof. Elkin-Koren received her LL.B from Tel-Aviv University Faculty of Law in 1989, her LL.M from Harvard Law School in 1991, and her S.J.D from Stanford Law School in 1995.

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