Academic Visitors
Dr. Bita Amani is a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law and a Visiting Research Fellow with the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre. She is a Professor at the Faculty of Law at Queen's University in Kingston, Canada and adjunct faculty at Osgoode Hall Law School (Toronto), where she is also an affiliated researcher with the IP Osgoode Intellectual Property and Technology Program. She is a member of the Global Expert Network on Copyright User Rights. Bita is a founding member of the pan-university research group Feminist Legal Studies Queen’s (FLSQ) and has served as its Co-Director since inception, holding an annual International Women’s Day conference for over a decade (https://femlaw.queensu.ca). She teaches courses in intellectual property, information privacy, and feminist legal studies (workshop), and is currently working on various equality focused projects including as they pertain to intellectual property, tech governance, national and international law, domestic public policy, and public interests.
Publications include “AI and Equality by Design” (2021) and “Implementing Triage-Bot: Supporting the Current Practice for Triage Nurses” (with Kim Sears et al, 2024), as well as the following books: State Agency and the Patenting of Life in International Law: Merchants and Missionaries in a Global Society, (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2009); Trademarks and Unfair Competition - Cases and Commentary on Canadian and International Law Second Edition (Toronto: Carswell, 2014, with Carys Craig); and The Elgar Companion to Intellectual Property and the Sustainable Development Goals, (Northampton: Edward Elgar, 2024, with Profs. Caroline B. Ncube and Matthew Rimmer (eds)) – including her chapter on SDG 10 (reduced inequalities within and among countries), “Some More Equal than Others: Critical Contexts for the (False) Promises of Intellectual Property Rights”.
Dr. Amani has served as consultant to the Ontario Advisory Committee on New Predictive Genetic Technologies as a member of the Subcommittee on Gene Patenting (2001); to the provincial government on the e-Laws project for the Ministry of the Attorney General (Ontario) Office of the Legislative Counsel (OLC), as editor and annotations editor for the online delivery of access to laws; and served briefly as a legislative drafter with the OLC. She is called to the Bar of Ontario (2000). Bita welcomes the opportunity to discuss impactful research for transformative change with colleagues and students from across disciplines.