| Profile Anil Samtani is an Associate Professor of Law
at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and the Deputy Director
of the Centre for Asia Pacific Technology Law and Policy (CAPTEL). Samtani
specializes in the areas of intellectual property law and information
technology law. Samtani speaks regularly at international conferences and
his articles have appeared in internationally refereed law and business
journals worldwide.
Samtani is a past recipient
of the Fulbright Scholarship, the ECAP II Postgraduate Intellectual
Property Rights Scholarship (awarded by the European Commission) and the
Nanyang Technological University’s Teacher of the Year (Division of
Business Law) and Researcher of the Year (Division of Business Law)
awards. Samtani has been engaged by the World Intellectual Property
Organization (WIPO) as an advisor and speaker on issues such as electronic
commerce law, management and protection of intellectual property rights in
the digital environment, and technical guidelines and best practices among
ASEAN countries. Samtani has also been appointed as the Chair of the
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)’s
Membership Implementation Task Force for East Asia and has held visiting
scholarship stints at the Munich Intellectual Property Law Centre at the
Max Planck Institute in Germany, the Queen Mary Intellectual Property
Research Institute at the University of London, the Berkeley Center for
Law & Technology and the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of
California at Berkeley.
Selected Publications Electronic Commerce in Asia: The Legal, Regulatory and Policy
Issues, International Journal of Law and Information
Technology ICT Investments
and Electronic Commerce Initiatives in ASEAN, The Journal of World
Investment (co-authored with Assoc Professor Tan Lay
Hong) Re-Visiting the Singapore Internet
Code of Practice, Journal of Information, Law and Technology
- Protecting Children in Cyberspace: Some
Issues to Consider in Devising an Effective Legal and Regulatory Framework,
Singapore Academy of Law Journal
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