Contributors

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Contributors

Bita Amani

Bita Amani, BA (York University, with Distinction), LLB (Osgoode), SJD (U of T),

is Associate Professor at Queen’s University, Faculty of Law, and teaches

courses in intellectual property, information privacy, and feminist legal

studies. She is author of two books: State Agency and the Patenting of Life in

International Law: Merchants and Missionaries in a Global Society (Aldershott:

Ashgate Publishing Company, 2009) and Trademarks and Unfair Competition

Law in Canada: Cases and Commentary (Toronto: Carswell, 2011, with Carys

Craig). She is Adjunct Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School and has been a

Co-Director and Lecturer for the LLM Program in Intellectual Property (with

Rosemary Coombe). She was a visiting researcher at the Brocher Founda-

tion (Geneva, Switzerland) and visiting scholar and guest lecturer at the

Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre and at the Centre for Interna-

tional Governance, University Of Leeds School of Law. Dr. Amani has served

as government consultant on gene patenting for the Ontario Advisory Com-

mittee on Predictive Genetic Technologies and on the E-Laws project for the

Ministry of the Attorney General, Oce of the Legislative Counsel (Ontario),

where she was also briey a legislative drafter (37th Legislature’s Session,

2001). She is called to the Bar of Ontario.

Marcus Boon

Marcus Boon is Professor of English Literature at York University. He is the

author of The Road of Excess: A History of Writers on Drugs (Harvard Univer-