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Conference Presentations

George A, 2018, 'Extradition and Overseas Prison Time: A Developing Trend in the Cross-Border Enforcement of Intellectual Property Laws?', presented at International Law Association conference, Sydney, Australia, 19 August 2018 - 24 August 2018

George A, 2018, 'The Future of Globalisation of Intellectual Property Jurisdiction/Enforcement', presented at UNSW Workshop on Private International Law and Intellectual Property, Sydney, Australia, 18 August 2018 - 18 August 2018

George A, 2018, 'Brexit & Intellectual Property Law: Implications for Australia', presented at Symposium - The Australia-European Union Free Trade Agreement and Brexit, QUT, Brisbane, Australia, 26 July 2018 - 26 July 2018

George A, 2018, 'Uncle Sam Wants You! Extradition to the US in Copyright Cases', presented at Law and Society Association, 2018 Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, 07 June 2018 - 10 June 2018

George A, 2018, 'Catching Pirates: Copyright, Extradition & Human Rights', presented at HKU-UNSW Symposium, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong, 02 March 2018 - 02 March 2018

George A, 2018, 'Intellectual Property Laws in an AI Future: A Metaphysical Approach', presented at Bracing for Impact: The Artificial Intelligence Challenge, Osgoode Hall, Toronto, Canada, 02 February 2018 - 02 February 2018

George A, 2017, 'Sci-Tech Disruption and Intellectual Property: A Metaphysical Approach to the Future of Intellectual Property Laws', presented at 1st Future of Law Conference —The Internet of Things, Smart Contracts and Intelligent Machines, Singapore Management University, Singapore, 26 October 2017 - 27 October 2017

George A, 2017, 'The (Im)Possibility of Reconciling Indigenous and Western ‘Intellectual Property’ Laws', presented at Copyright Symposium 2017, Sydney, Australia, 12 October 2017 - 13 October 2017

George A, 2017, 'Transcending Territoriality: International Intellectual Property Enforcement & Dispute Resolution in the Fourth Industrial Revolution', presented at Tsinghua-UNSW Workshop, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 27 September 2017 - 27 September 2017

George A, 2017, 'Transcending Geography: Trends Towards the Globalization of Intellectual Property Enforcement', presented at European Policy for Intellectual Property (EPIP), Bordeaux, France, 04 September 2017 - 06 September 2017

George A, 2017, 'Embedding Emerging Practice Technologies in Law Teaching', presented at The Future of Australian Legal Education Conference, Sydney, Australia, 11 August 2017 - 13 August 2017

George A, 2017, 'Materializing the Immaterial: Intellectual Property Law as a Mechanism for Commodification', presented at Law and Society Association, 2017 Annual Meeting, Mexico City, Mexico, 20 June 2017 - 23 June 2017

George A, 2016, 'Designing Laws to Protect Indigenous Knowledge: Lessons from Metaphysics', presented at Indigenous Knowledge Roundtable, University of Technology Sydney, Australia, 14 December 2016 - 14 December 2016

George A, 2016, 'Mind Downloads & Intellectual Property Futurism', presented at Law and Society Association, 2016 Annual Meeting, New Orleans, USA, 02 June 2016 - 05 June 2016

George A, 2016, 'Alternative Dispute Resolution in Intellectual Property Disputes: A Solution to Jurisdictional Challenges?', presented at Thirteenth Annual Works-in-Progress Intellectual Property Colloquium (WIPIP), University of Washington School of Law, Seattle, USA, 19 February 2016 - 20 February 2016

George A, 2016, 'Intellectual Property in a Globalized World: Overcoming Jurisdictional Impediments to Cross-Border Enforcement', presented at 4th Asia Pacific Intellectual Property Forum (‘Comparative Transnational IP Law in Practice’), University of Washington School of Law, Seattle, USA, 18 February 2016 - 18 February 2016

George A, 2015, 'Testing Boundaries? Protecting Intellectual Property Interests Across National Borders', presented at UNSW-HKU Law Symposium, Sydney, Australia, 04 December 2015 - 05 December 2015

George A, 2015, 'Human Rights & the Cross-Border Enforcement of Intellectual Property Laws', presented at Colloquium on Social Responsibility of IP Rights Holders, University of Pretoria, South Africa, 02 October 2015 - 02 October 2015

George A, 2015, 'Intellectual Property Law as a Knowledge System: Law Reform Lessons from Indigenous Societies', presented at ATRIP Congress 2015: “Intellectual Property in Action in Society: New Perspectives from the North, the South and the Cloud”, Cape Town, South Africa, 27 September 2015 - 30 September 2015

George A, 2015, 'Globalising Jurisdiction: New Developments in Cross-Territorial Protection of Intellectual Property', presented at 7th Annual Conference on Innovation and Communications Law, Xiamen University, China, 06 July 2015 - 07 July 2015

George A, 2015, 'Indigenous Knowledge and Social Systems: A Case Study of Customary ‘Copyright’ in the South Pacific', presented at Law and Society Association, 2015 Annual Meeting, Seattle, USA, 27 May 2015 - 31 May 2015

George A, 2015, 'Spiritual Property: Indigenous Knowledge Systems in an Intellectual Property Environment', presented at WIPIP 2015, USPTO, Alexandria, VA, USA, 06 February 2015 - 07 February 2015

George A, 2014, 'Copyright’s Conundrum: The Problem of How to Protect National Rights in a Globalised World', presented at Trans-Pacific Intellectual Property Roundtable, UNSW, Sydney Australia, 21 November 2014 - 21 November 2014

George A, 2014, 'The Law of Authenticity: Fashion, Fakes and Fame', presented at Charting the New Frontiers of Intellectual Property Protection of Fashion Brands and Designs, Hong Kong, 10 May 2014 - 10 May 2014

George A, 2014, 'How Long is Uncle Sam's Arm? Extraterritorial Enforcement of Domestic Intellectual Property Laws', presented at WIPIP 2014, San Jose, USA, 07 February 2014 - 09 February 2014

George A, 2013, 'Australia's Gene Patenting Environment (discussing J.Liddicoat,"New perspectives on Genetic Sequence Patents")', presented at European Policy for Intellectual Property ('EPIP'), 2013 Annual Conference, Paris, France, 05 September 2013 - 06 September 2013

George A, 2013, 'Intellectual Property as Religion', presented at Law and Society Association, 2013 Annual Meeting, Boston, USA, 30 May 2013 - 02 June 2013

George A, 2012, '‘Literary’ Authorship, Commerce, & Cultural Innovation', presented at Creativity and Authorship: Law and Changing Practices Symposium, Canberra, Australia, 17 December 2012 - 18 December 2012

George A, 2012, 'Global Intellectual Property Regulation: A Changing Trajectory?', presented at 2nd HKU-UNSW Research Symposium, Hong Kong, 06 December 2012 - 07 December 2012

George A, 2012, 'Pester Power and Intellectual Property Reform', presented at UNSW Law Society and Gilbert + Tobin Intellectual Property Seminar, Sydney, Australia, 29 May 2012 - 29 May 2012

George A, 2011, 'The Metaphysics of Intellectual Property & the Challenges of Scientific Progress', presented at World Congress of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR), Frankfurt, Germany, 14 August 2011 - 20 August 2011

George A, 2011, 'When is Intellectual Property Not ‘Intellectual Property’?', presented at Law and Society Association, 2011 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, USA, 02 June 2011 - 05 June 2011

George A, 2008, 'Resisting Counterfeiting: Cultural Dimensions of Intellectual Property Enforcement', presented at Law and Society Association, 2008 Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, 29 May 2008 - 01 June 2008

George A, 2008, 'Comparative Perspectives on Intellectual Property Law and Theory', presented at ANJEL (The Australian Network for Japanese Law) international conference: Beyond 'Country and Western' Law: Towards New Australia-Japan Partnerships in Legal Research, Ritsumeikan Law School, Kyoto, Japan, 16 February 2008 - 16 February 2008

George A, 2007, 'Legal Imperialism? The Application of Western Intellectual Property Laws to Ideas, Information and Knowledge in Non-Commercial Settings, Seminar Series', presented at Faculty of Law, University of the South Pacific, Port Vila, Vanuatu, Faculty of Law, University of the South Pacific, Port Vila, Vanuatu, 03 September 2007 - 03 September 2007

George A, 2007, 'Whose Property? ‘Intellectual Property’ as a Contested Concept', presented at World Congress of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR), Krakow, Poland, 06 August 2007 - 06 August 2007

George A, 2006, 'Branding Trademarks', presented at Seminar to the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London, UK, 14 December 2006 - 14 December 2006

George A, 2006, 'Branding Law / Trademarking Culture', presented at Law and Society Association, 2006 Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 06 July 2006 - 09 July 2006

George A, 2006, 'Intangible Property; Tangible Justice?', presented at Social Justice in Practice, Association for Legal and Social Philosophy 2006 Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 28 June 2006 - 01 July 2006

George A, 2005, 'Propertising the Immaterial: The Commodification of Valuable (In)tangibles', presented at Material Worlds Conference, University of Glasgow, 30 October 2005 - 30 October 2005

George A, 2005, 'Trademark Law-Branding Lore: The Jurisprudence of a Branding Culture', presented at Trade Marks and Branding: An Interdisciplinary Colloquium, Queen Mary, University of London, UK, 16 September 2005 - 16 September 2005

George A, 2005, 'Brand New World: The (In)Justice of Global Intellectual Propertisation', presented at World Congress of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR), Granada, Spain, 25 May 2005 - 25 May 2005

George A, 2005, 'Symbolic Symbiosis: The Branding-Trademark Nexus', presented at Brands: A Workshop, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK, 08 April 2005 - 08 April 2005

George A, 2004, 'Commercial Liberalism and Law-Making: Regulating Intellectual Properties', presented at UK Legal Theory Group Inaugural Conference, University of Edinburgh, UK, 16 April 2004 - 16 April 2004

George A, 2004, ''Intellectual 'Property’?', presented at First Annual Intellectual Property & Communications Law and Policy Scholars Roundtable, Michigan State University-DCL College of Law, USA, 20 February 2004 - 21 February 2004

George A, 2003, 'Intellectual Property and Commercial Liberalism', presented at RegNet Seminar, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 25 November 2003 - 25 November 2003

George A, 2003, 'Counterfeiting in Context, Makers, Takers and Fakers: A Sideways Look at IP Enforcement', presented at Anti-Counterfeiting Group Autumn Conference, UK, 17 October 2003 - 17 October 2003

George A, 2003, 'Legal Developments in the Enforcement of Trade Mark Rights, Anti-Counterfeiting and Enforcement Practices Conference', presented at Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM), Alicante, Spain, 02 April 2003 - 02 April 2003

George A, 2003, 'Global Cooling: Copyright and the Regulation of Communication', presented at RegNet Seminar, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 08 January 2003 - 08 January 2003

George A, 2003, 'Intellectual Property in the Post-Colonial World', presented at World Congress of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR), Lund, Sweden, -


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