Fair Use / Fair Dealing Week 2019: February 25 – March 1

Fair Use / Fair Dealing Week 2019: February 25 – March 1

Fair Use / Fair Dealing Week, coordinated by the Association of Research Libraries (of which GW is a member), is “an annual celebration of the important doctrines of fair use in the United States and fair dealing in Canada and other jurisdictions.” Fair use and fair...
World IP Day: Powering Change: Women in Innovation and Creativity

World IP Day: Powering Change: Women in Innovation and Creativity

April 26 is World Intellectual Property Day, marking the date when the World Intellectual Property Organization Convention came into force in 1970. World IP Day was established in 2000 by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a self-funding agency of...
Zombies and the Law

Zombies and the Law

Just in time for Halloween, the Jacob Burns Law Library presents “Zombies and the Law” in our first floor display case.  We explore Haitian law aimed at criminalizing the process of zombification, the use of zombie terminology to explain complex legal theory, and some...