लेखक: Shaver Lea Shaver

Lea Shaver has a BA in sociology and a Masters in human rights and development from the University of Chicago. She received her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she served as both submissions and articles editor of the Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal. She was a Fulbright Scholar in South Africa at the University of Witwatersrand Law School”s Centre for Applied Legal Studies. Shaver returned to Yale Law School as an Associate Research Scholar and Lecturer in Law. There she served as a resident fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School and directed a research program in Access to Knowledge. In the autumn 2010, Shaver joined the faculty of Hofstra Law School as an Associate Professor. Shaver”s principal research interests include international intellectual property, law and technology, and human rights. Her work has been published in the Wisconsin Law Review, the Wisconsin International Law Journal and the Washington University Global Legal Studies Review, among other academic journals. Shaver is the editor of Access to Knowledge in Brazil: New Research on Intellectual Property, Innovation and Development and the co-editor of Access to Knowledge in Egypt: New Research on Intellectual Property, Innovation and Development