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Professor Lateef MtimaHoward University School of Law A.B., 1982, Amherst College |
Lateef Mtima is a Professor of Law and the Founder and Director of the Institute for Intellectual Property and Social Justice (IIPSJ) established in 2002 at the Howard University School of Law. IIPSJ was created to explore the relationship between intellectual property and social justice. IIPSJ performs its mission in a number of ways, including sponsoring relevant scholarship, involving HUSL students in IP courses and issues, assisting the HUSL Faculty in designing the IP curriculum, sponsoring student internships in IP law practice, and providing CLE instruction in IP to practicing lawyers.
Prof. Mtima graduated with honors from Amherst College in 1982. He earned his J.D. degree from Harvard Law School in 1985, where he was the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Harvard BlackLetter Journal. Admitted to the New York and Pennsylvania bars, Prof. Mtima practiced with Coudert Brothers in New York and San Francisco until 1996, and was later Of Counsel to the Philadelphia firm of Klehr, Harrison.
A member of the HUSL law faculty since 1998, Prof. Mtima teaches and writes in the areas of bankruptcy and debtors and creditors’ rights, commercial law, torts, diversity in the legal profession, and intellectual property law, with emphasis in the areas of software and Internet issues, and the Digital Divide. In 2003 Prof. Mtima was appointed to a six-year term as the inaugural Chair of the Howard University Intellectual Property Committee, which implements the University’s technology transfer and intellectual property policy.
Prof. Mtima is a member of the Giles S. Rich Inn of Court for the Federal Circuit, and was elected to the Board of Officers in 2004, serving as the Mentoring and Scholarship Chair and currently serving as Program Chair. He is also a member of the Advisory Board for the BNA Patent, Trademark, and Copyright Journal. He has been involved with AIPLA, the American Intellectual Property Lawyers Association, most recently having served as its Diversity Committee Co-liaison to the AIPLA Education Committee.
Representative Publications:
Natural Law and Positive Social Utility in the Digital Copyright Age, Ad honorem Ion Dogaru: Studii juridice alese (Editura All Beck, Bucuresti 2005)
Protecting and Licensing Software: Copyright and Common Law Contract Considerations, The Computer & Internet Lawyer, Vol. 22, No. 3, at 13 (March 2005)
Tasini and Its Progeny: The New Exclusive Right Or Fair Use on the Electronic Publishing Frontier?, 14 Fordham Intell. Property, Media & Ent. L. J. 369 (2004)
Trademarks, Copyrights and the Internet, Copyrights and Unfair Competition for the General Practitioner and the Corporate Counsel, SC68 ALI-ABA 277 (April 1998); updated, revised, and reprinted: SD68 ALI-ABA 301 (April 1999); SE44 ALI-ABA 397 (April 2000); The Florida Bar Association, Internet Law II (February 2000); SF87 ALI-ABA 313 (March 2001); ALI-ABA (April 2002); SHO85 ALI-ABA 387 (April 2003)
The Road to the Bench: Not Even Good (subliminal) Intentions, 8 U. Chi. L. Roundtable 135 (2001)
Protecting Non-literal Elements of Computer Programs: Comparing the Approaches of Whelan and Altai, Intellectual Property Counselor, No. 36, at 2 (December 1999)
African-American Economic Empowerment Strategies for the New Millennium: Revisiting the Washington-DuBois Dialectic, 42 Howard L. J. 391 (1999)
last updated May 31, 2005
