Chidi Oguamanam

LL.B.(Ife), B.L.(Nigerian Law Schl), LL.M.(Lagos), LL.M., Ph.D(British Columbia)

Assistant Professor

Dr. Oguamanam practised intellectual property law in Lagos, Nigeria in one of that country's top corporate law firms before moving to the University of British Columbia for graduate studies. He served in the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)'s Technical Expert Working Group on Genetic Use Restriction Technologies (GURTs). He is a graduate fellow of the Canada Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Training Program in Ethics of Health Research and Policy.

As an Assistant Professor in the Dalhousie Law School, Dr. Oguamanam teaches courses in Contracts and Judicial Rule-Making, Sale of Goods, Law and Technology, Advanced Intellectual Property, which are his main areas of research interest. In 2007 he became the Acting Director of the Law and Technology Institute to which he is primarily affiliated in the Dalhousie Law School. Dr Oguamanam is also a Faculty Associate of the Marine and Environmental Law Institute and the Health Law Institute in the Law School.

Dr. Oguamanam has written and published several articles on international intellectual property law making, biotechnology in the context of health and agriculture, indigenous peoples, indigenous knowledge and public health law and policy. His most recent book titled "International Law and Indigenous Knowledge: Intellectual Property, Plant Biodiversity, and Traditional Medicine" was published by the University of Toronto Press in 2006. He is currently working on a project on Farmer's Rights and Agricultural Biotechnology with research support from the Faculty Research Development Fund for Humanities and Social Sciences.

To contact him, you can send an email to Chidi@dal.ca or you can call the Dalhousie Law School at (902) 494-7125.