Innovation Law Workshop

Innovation Law Workshop

Presents:

Kara W. Swanson
Northeastern University

Beyond The Progress Of The Useful Arts: The Inventor As Useful Citizen

Tuesday February 7, 2023
12:30pm - 2pm
Virtual Event

https://zoom.us/j/96642069282?pwd=WUozcm4vUTNGbXNhSmxuV3BGSUxVdz09

Kara W. Swanson is an accomplished scholar, legal practitioner and scientist whose chief interests are in intellectual property law, gender and sexuality, the history of science, medicine, and technology and legal history. In 2021, she was selected for the Law & Society Association’s John Hope Franklin Prize, which recognizes exceptional scholarship in the field of race, racism and the law, for her essay, “Race and Selective Legal Memory: Reflections on ‘Invention of a Slave’.” Professor Swanson received one of Northeastern’s most prestigious prizes in 2015, the Robert D. Klein University Lectureship, which is awarded to a member of the faculty across the university who has obtained distinction in his or her field of study. Professor Swanson was awarded the 2018 History of Science Society’s Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize in recognition of her article, “Rubbing Elbows and Blowing Smoke: Gender, Class and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Patent Office,” published in ISIS: A Journal of the History of Science Society.

For further workshop information contact events.law@utoronto.ca