Mira T. Sundara Rajan CANADA RESEARCH CHAIR IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW AND Associate Professor DPhil (Oxon), LL.M. (UBC), LL.B. (Osgoode), B.A. (Hons) (McGill/Paris) Tel: 604.827.5339 Fax: 604.822.8108 E-mail: sundararajan@law.ubc.ca Office Location: West Mall Swing Space Building (WMSS): 2175 West Mall #507-20 CV available here. Intellectual Property Law Program Faculty Association's Status of Women Committe

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Mira Sundara Rajan holds the Canada Research Chair in Intellectual Property Law.  She is the author of a book, Copyright and Creative Freedom, and has been appointed Series Editor for a new Oxford University Press series on Intellectual Property in Central and Eastern Europe.  Her current research also includes projects on copyright harmonization in Europe, moral rights, and traditional knowledge, and is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Mira joined the Faculty of Law at UBC in 2004, after five years of research and teaching in the UK.  She holds a doctorate specializing in Copyright Law from Oxford University, and has been a law tutor at St Peter’s College, Oxford and a Herchel Smith Fellow in Intellectual Property Law at the Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute of the University of London.  Mira’s teaching experience ranges from tutoring law undergraduates in the Oxford tutorial system to training judges from developing countries in the intricacies of intellectual property rights. 
She has also practised widely as a consultant and advisor on intellectual property matters, working with law firms, universities, governments, and international organizations such as the Council of Europe and the European Patent Office. 

At UBC, Mira has undertaken an exciting new initiative: the development of an Intellectual Property Law Programme that will help to promote study and research in this field.  The Programme currently features a Seminar Series bringing distinguished visitors to the School, the opportunity for LLB students to participate in the Oxford International Intellectual Property Moot competition (generously supported by law firm Oyen Wiggs), a student IP Club, a fledgling clinical programme, and an IP blog.  The ultimate goal of the Programme is to grow into a truly interdisciplinary Institute for Intellectual Property Studies, bringing together researchers and students from all over UBC and throughout the world to discuss and debate current issues in this controversial field.

Beyond her legal accomplishments, Dr Sundara Rajan is an accomplished concert pianist and linguist.  She is a distinguished great-granddaughter of Indian National Poet C. Subramania Bharati.

Courses

• Intellectual Property Law
• Contract Law
• Regulatory State (Interpretation of IP Statutes)

Research Interests

• Copyright and moral rights
• International copyright law
• Intellectual property
• Legal history

Representative Published Works

• "Copyright and Creative Freedom: A Study of Post-Socialist Law Reform" (Routledge Oxford 2006).
• “Copyright and Free Speech in Transition: A New International Perspective,” in J Griffiths & U Suthersanen,, eds, Copyright and Free Speech: Comparative and International Analyses (Oxford University Press, forthcoming January 2005).
• “Moral Rights in Information Technology: A New Kind of ‘Personal Right’?” (Spring 2004) International Journal of Law & Information Technology 32.
• “Moral Rights in Developing Countries: The Example of India” (2003) 8(5) & (6) Journal of Intellectual Property Rights, National Institute of Science, Communication and Information Resources, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Government of India.
• “Moral Rights and the Protection of Cultural Heritage: Amar Nath Sehgal v. Union of India” (2001) 10(1) International Journal of Cultural Property 79;
  

Publications listed on the UBC Law Library Faculty Research Publications Database