1. I have been working in the field of international and comparative intellectual property law for 25 years.

2. I am a Full Professor at Vanderbilt University Law School (Nashville, Tennessee) and have served as Director of the Vanderbilt Intellectual Property Program since 2008, where I teach U.S., international and comparative intellectual property law.1 I am a member of the American Law Institute and Associate Reporter of the Restatement of Copyright, First.

3. Prior to joining Vanderbilt University, I was a Full Professor and Acting Dean, as well as University Research Chair in Intellectual Property and Osler Professor of Technology Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Ottawa (Common Law Section), where I taught Canadian, comparative and international intellectual property law between 2001 and 2008.

4. I have also taught intellectual property law at several other universities in Asia, Canada, Europe, and the United States. Since 2003, I have been a visiting lecturer every summer in a postgraduate program at the University of Amsterdam. In February 2014, I will be the Yong Shook Lin Professor in Intellectual Property at the National University of Singapore. I have also been a Research Affiliate at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand for a number of years. I have been serving as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of World Intellectual Property, published by Wiley-Blackwell (a division or affiliate of John Wiley & Sons, New York) since 2006.

5. In 2012, I became the first law professor in North America elected to the Academy of Europe.

6. Prior to my teaching career, I served inter alia as Head of the Copyright Projects Section at the World Intellectual Property Organization (“WIPO”); and Legal Officer at the GATT (World Trade Organization or “WTO”) during the Uruguay Round. I have worked with government officials from several WTO Members in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America (on behalf of the WTO and the InterAmerican Development Bank and sometimes directly hired by national governments) to answer questions about the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (“TRIPS”) and offer advice on the implementation of the Agreement.