Professor
Margaret Chon

Seattle University
School of Law

mchon@seattleu.edu

Curriculum Vitae

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Skype username: maggiechon

Recent papers available for review

Slouching Towards Development in International Intellectual Property
Winter 2007 Mich. St. L. Rev. 71, with Denis Borges Barbosa and Andrés Moncayo von Hase

Abstract:
An understanding of intellectual property's classic innovation mandate as only one of many cross-cutting development goals should be well-accepted by now within international intellectual property law and policy, given the pervasiveness of development rhetoric at the WTO, WIPO and other regional and bilateral fora.  Yet development "walk" lags behind development "talk" on both international and domestic levels.  This article focuses on how intellectual property can promote development. Available on SSRN

Intellectual Property from Below: Copyright and Capability for Education
UC Davis Law Review, Vol. 40, p. 803, 2007

Abstract:
An approach to intellectual property from within a human development framework can contribute meaningfully to the The New WIPO Development Agenda, which has recently been endorsed by the WIPO PCDA. Setting the proper regulatory balance between exclusive rights and access through exceptions and limitations to those rights is key to building national innovation capacity. Available on SSRN

Intellectual Property and the Development Divide
Cardozo Law Review, Vol. 27, pp. 2821-2912, 2006

Abstract:
This Article attempts to map the challenges raised by recent encounters between intellectual property and development. It proposes a normative principle of global intellectual property - one that is responsive to development paradigms that have moved far beyond simple utilitarian measures of social welfare. Available on SSRN

Forthcoming

• If Not Now, When? Global Intellectual Property Pluralism and the Domains of Development in WORKING WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (Rochelle Dreyfuss, Harry First and Diane Zimmerman, eds., 2008, Oxford University Press) (forthcoming 2008)
• A Substantive Equality Principle Within Global Copyright, in QUESTIONS ON COPYRIGHT (Faculdade de Direitos de Campos [Brazil], ed.) (forthcoming 2008).

Publications

• A Constituiçao do Comércio e a Jornada da Lei de Propriedade Intelectual para o Progresso. Il Seminario Internacional Patentes, Inovação e Desenvolvimento Sipid 2007. Organização, Marcos H.C. Oliveira and Claudia I. Chamas. ABIFINA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 2007.
• Substantive Equality in International Intellectual Property Norm-Setting and Interpretation, in INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT: STRATEGIES TO OPTIMIZE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN A TRIPS PLUS ERA 475 (Daniel Gervais, ed., 2007, Oxford University Press)
• Slouching Towards Development in International Intellectual Property, Winter 2007 Mich. St. L. Rev. 71, with Denis Borges Barbosa and Andrés Moncayo von Hase
• Intellectual Property From Below: Copyright and Capability for Education, UC Davis Law Review
• Intellectual Property and the Development Divide, 27 Cardozo Law Review 2821 (April 2006)
• Walking While Muslim, 68 Law and Contemporary Problems 215 (Spring 2005), with Donna E. Arzt
• Resurrecting Korematsu: Post 9/11 National Security Restrictions on Civil Liberties, with Eric Yamamoto (July 2003), an update to Race, Rights and Reparation: Law and the Japanese American Internment
• Book Review of Disoriented: Asian Americans, Law, and the Nation-State, 29 Amerasia Journal 267 (2003)
• Reflections on Asian American Heritage Month (distributed by the Progressive Media Network and re-published under various titles, May 2002)
• Transforming Talks: Public Dialogue About Social Justice in a Post-9-11 Age, 1 Seattle Journal for Social Justice 13 (Spring/Summer 2002)
• Race, Rights and Reparation: Law and the Japanese American Internment, with Eric Yamamoto, Jerry Kang, Carol Izumi and Frank Wu (Aspen Law & Business 2001)
• Erasing Race? A Critical Race Feminist View of Internet Identity Shifting, 3 Iowa Journal of Gender, Race & Justice 439 (Spring 2000); reprinted in Cyberethics (Halbert and Inguili, eds. 2001); Critical Race Feminism: A Reader 2d ed. (Adrien Wing, ed. 2003)
• A Symposium Tribute to Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.: The Mentor and His Message, 33 Loyola-LA Law Review 973 (April 2000)
• The Marketplace of Ideas in Cyberspace, 51 Mercer Law Review 859 (Spring 2000)
• Introduction: Critical Race Praxis and Legal Scholarship, 5 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 35 (Fall 1999) with Keith Aoki
• Guest Co-editor, Symposium on Race, Law and Film, 5 Asian Law Journal 1 (May 1998)
• Acting Upon Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics, 76 Oregon Law Review 765 (Fall 1997)
• Being Between: A Review of Chinese Women Traversing Diaspora: Memoirs, Essays, and Poetry, 17 Loyola Arts & Entertainment Law Journal 571 (1997)
• Introduction, Internet Law Symposium, 20 Seattle University Law Review 613 (Spring 1997)
• Radical Plural Democracy and the Internet, 33 California Western Law Review 143 (Spring 1997)
• Chon on Chen on Chang, 81 Iowa Law Review 1535 (April 1996)
• New Wine Bursting From Old Bottles: Collaborative Internet Art, Joint Works, and Entrepreneurship, 75 Oregon Law Review 257 (Spring 1996), reprinted in A Copyright Anthology: The Technology Frontier, R. Chused, ed. (1998)
• On the Need for Asian American Narratives in Law: Ethnic Specimens, Native Informants, Storytelling and Silences, 3 UCLA Asian Pacific American Law Journal 4 (Fall 1995)
• Resource Review of Cyberspace and the Law, 5 Internet Research 91 (1995)
• National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, Combatting Anti- Asian/Pacific Islander Violence, Statutory Appendix (October 1993), reprinted as appendix to Crimes Motivated by Hatred: The Constitutionality and Impact of Hate Crime Legislation in the U.S.,
• 1 Syracuse Journal of Legislation and Policy 47 (Spring 1995)
• False Flattery Gets Us Nowhere, New York Newsday op-ed (Oct. 28, 1994); reprinted in The Bell Curve Debate: A Reader (R. Jacoby and N. Glauberman, eds. (1995))
• Sex Stories: A Review of Sex and Reason, 62 George Washington Law Review 101 (1993), reprinted in Employment Discrimination Law (Ravitch, McDonald and Sumners, eds., 2004)
• Reasons for Reasoning About Sex, The Eyes of Justice (proceedings of the Seventh Round Table on Law and Semiotics, Center for Semiotic Research in Law, Government and Economics at Penn State, R. Kevelson, ed., 1993)
• Postmodern 'Progress': Reconsidering the Copyright and Patent Power, 43 DePaul Law Review 97 (1993)
• Multidimensional Lawyering and Professional Responsibility, 43 Syracuse Law Review 1137 (1992) (invited)
• Co-author, Retention of knowledge and self-care skills after an intensive in-patient diabetes education program, 2 Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice 51-57 (1986)

Pro bono works

• Joint Comment on WIPO Draft Report: Intellectual Property Needs and Expectations of Traditional Knowledge Holders (with Shubha Ghosh) (Fall 2000)
• When Bias Compounds: Insuring Justice for Women of Color in the Courts, for the Washington State Supreme Court Gender and Justice and Minority and Justice Commissions (with Marilyn Berger, adapted from curriculum distributed by the National Center for State Courts) (Summer 2000)
• 1997 Civil Rights Directory, NAPABA Civil Rights Committee Resource Book 1996, National Asian Pacific American Bar Association Civil Rights Committee (with Christopher D. Anderson and Brett C. Vinson) (November 1997)
• Bibliography, NAPABA Civil Rights Committee Resource Book 1996, National Asian Pacific American Civil Rights Committee (with Khoa Nguyen and Charles Kim) (November 1996)
• Bibliography, NAPABA Civil Rights Committee Resource Book 1995, National Asian Pacific American Bar Association Civil Rights Committee (with Sandeep Baweja and various APALSA students) (November1995)
• Analyses of various bills sponsored in the NY State Senate by Sen. Frank Padavan (with various APALSA students) (spring 1995)
• Statutory supplement to Anti-Asian Violence Manual, National Asian Pacific American Bar Association Civil Rights Committee (with various APALSA students) (October 1993)
• Recent Developments in Federal Practice, Outline for the Oneida County Bar Association (September 1991)

Digital works

• Book chapter, Resurrecting Korematsu: Post 9/11 National Security Restrictions on Civil Liberties, with Eric Yamamoto (July 2003)
• Learning Cyberlaw in Cyberspace, with Lydia Loren et al. (August 1999)
• Blade Runner Meets Superman: Replicants, Truth, Justice and the American Way, a review of J.M. Balkin, Cultural Software: A Theory of Ideology, Jurist Books-on-Law (February 1999)
• Course materials for Internet Law (Spring 1999)

Readers:

• with Robert S. Chang and Trina Grillo, "Plenary Readings on Racial Formation Theory," for the 1995 Critical Race Theory Workshop (July 1995)
• with William C. Banks, "Government Information: Privacy and Access in an Electronic Environment," for the Syracuse University School of Information Studies SIRM Program, Washington D.C. (April 1994)