Australia Seed Science Conference – Prof. Brad Sherman keynote speaker

Theme 4: Seeds in culture and society

TOPIC: Resolving the legal uncertainty created by the Nagoya Protocol

Brad Sherman is a Professor of Law at The University of Queensland. Professor Sherman’s previous academic positions include posts at Griffith University, the London School of Economics, and the University of Cambridge. His research expertise encompasses many aspects of intellectual property law, with a particular emphasis on its historical, doctrinal and conceptual development.

In 2015 Professor Sherman was awarded a highly prestigious Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship. His laureate project Harnessing Intellectual Property to Build Food Security looks at the role of intellectual property in relation to food security.