Robert G Howell
Professor
Robert G Howell
| Robert G Howell Tel: 250-721-8186 Fax: 250-721-8146 |
Faculty of Law University of Victoria PO Box 1700, STN CSC Victoria, BC V8W 2Y2 Map |
I joined the Faculty of Law as assistant professor in 1980 and was promoted to professor in 1993. From 1977 to 1979, I was a part-time tutor at Victoria University of Wellington, and a Teaching Fellow at the University of Illinois from 1979 to 1980. I was co-director of the International Intellectual Property Summer Program from 2002-2007. From 2008 to 2018 I was a member of the Board of the British Columbia Law Institute (BCLI) and was elected an Emeritus Member of the Institute in 2018. I currently teach Property, Intellectual Property, Private International Law (Conflict of Laws), Managing Intellectual Property, Telecommunications, and Internet-related law.
My research interests include intellectual property, cultural property, technology, telecommunications, private international law (conflict of laws), and Asia-Pacific issues. I have published extensively and have organized several international conferences and seminars. In 2011 my book Canadian Telecommunications Law: Dimensions in a Digital Age was published by Irwin Law, Toronto.
- LLB – Wellington (1976)
- LLM – University of Illinois (1984)
- "The Nature and Scope of Property in a Domain Name" in New Paradigms in the Protection of Inventiveness, Data and Signs, ed. Mistrale Goudreau and Margaret Ann Wilkinson, Editions Yvon Blais, Montreal (2019) at pp. 91 - 116
- "Security Rights in Intellectual Property in Canada : Common Law" in Kieninger ed. Security Rights in Intellectual Property, lus Comparatum - Global Studies in Comparative Law (GSCL), vol.45 (2020), at pp167-195, Springer, Cham.
- Canadian Telecommunications Law: Dimensions in a Digital Age
- "Intellectual Property Rights and Private International Law : A Tangled Web" (2016) 28 IPJ 187 – 236