CURRICULUM VITAE - 2011 BROOK KINGSTON BAKER
Professor of Law Northeastern University School of Law
400 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02115
(617) 373-3217 FAX (617) 373-5056
E-mail: b.baker@ neu.edu
EDUCATION:
LAW SCHOOL: Northeastern University School of Law, J.D., 1976
COLLEGE: Harvard University, B.A. (cum laude) 1969
ACADEMIC AND LEGAL EXPERIENCE:
Jan-May 2011 Sabbatical University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban S. Africa
1995-present Professor of Law at Northeastern University School of Law
2009-12 Honorary Research Fellow, University of KwaZulu Natal, S. Africa, Faculty of Law
Jan-July 1997 Sabbatical University of Durban-Westville, Durban, S. Africa
1989-1995 Assoc. Professor at Northeastern University School of Law
1989-2006 Director of Legal Practice Program
1987-1989 Full-time Lecturer at Northeastern University
1986-87 Visiting Assistant Professor at Boston College Law School,
Director Urban Legal Laboratory
1985-86 Senior Researcher and Lecturer at Northeastern University and Assistant Director Skills
and Advocacy Training of New York Department of Social Services Attorneys
1984-85 Full-time Visiting Professor at Northeastern University
1979-84 Part-time Visiting Assistant Professor of Law or Lecturer at Northeastern University
1976-87 Associate and Of-Counsel, Law Offices of Stahlin and Bergstresser, Inc.
I. AIDS RELATED PUBLICATIONS AND ACTIVITIES – pp. 1-2
II. LEGAL EDUCATION RELATED PUBLICATIONS AND ACTIVITIES – pp. 20-29
I. AIDS-RELATED PUBLICATIONS AND ACTIVITIES Aids-Related Publications
Sean Flynn, Margot Kaminski, Brook Baker, Jimmy Koo, Public Interest Analysis of US TPP Proposal for an IP Chapter, PIJIP Research Paper Series (in press 2011)
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Brook K. Baker, Settlement of India/EU WTO Dispute re Seizures of In-Transit Medicines: Why the Proposed EU Border Regulation Isn‟t Good Enough, PIJIP Research Paper Series (in press 2011) http://infojustice.org/public-events/global-congress/access-to-medicines-tpp-acta-and-eu-border-regulation Jen Cohn, David Holtzman & Brook K. Baker, Efficiencies in AIDS Programming: The Rhetoric and the Realities, 58 J. AIDS 228-31(2011) http://journals.lww.com/jaids/Fulltext/2011/11010/Efficiencies_in_AIDS_Programming___The_Rhetoric.1.aspx
Brook K. Baker, ACTA: Risks of Third-Party Enforcement to Access to Medicines, 26 Am. U. Int’l L. Rev. 579-599 (2011) http://www.auilr.org/pdf/26/26.3.3.pdf
Brook K. Baker, Letter – Effect of development assistance on domestic health expenditures, 376 Lancet 589-590 (2010) http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(10)61289-5/fulltext?elsca1=TL-210810&elsca2=email&elsca3=segment
Brook K. Baker, The Impact of the International Monetary Fund‟s Macroeconomic Policies on the AIDS Pandemic, 40 Int’l J. Health Services 347-363 (2010) http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/ds450/details/40_3p.pdf Jennifer Cohn & Brook K. Baker, Obstacles and Opportunities on the Road to Universal Access to ARVs, 7 Current HIV/AIDS Reports 161-167 (2010) http://infojustice.org/download/gcongress/access_to_medicines:_tpp,_acta,_and_eu_border_regulation/cohn%20article.pdf Jennifer Cohn, Asia Russell, Brook K. Baker, Alice Kayongo, Esther Wanjiku, Jael Amati, Paul Davis, Using Global Health Initiatives to Strengthen Health Systems: A Civil Society Perspective, Global Public Health 1-16 (2010) http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2010.521165 WHO Positive Synergies Civil Society Research Group, Interactions Between Global Health Initiatives and Health Systems – Evidence from Countries (2009) http://www.who.int/healthsystems/publications/MPS_civil_society_case_studies.pdf Patents, Pricing, and Access to Essential Medicines in Developing Countries, 11 AMA J. Ethics – Virtual Mentor 527-32 (July 2009) http://virtualmentor.ama-assn.org/2009/07/pfor1-0907.html World Health Organization Maximizing Positive Synergies Collaborative Group, An Assessment of interactions between global health initiatives and country health systems, 373 Lancet 2137-69 (June 20, 2009) Brook K. Baker, Eva Ombaka, Viewpoint – The Danger of Drug Donations (In-Kind Contributions) To the Global Fund – Adverse Market and Therapeutic Effects, 373 Lancet 1218-21 (2009) The Long and Tortured Road to Adequate, Sustained, and Spendable Domestic and Donor Financing for Health, April 2009 www.healthgap.org/bakeronhealthfinancing.htm Ending drug registration apartheid – taming data exclusivity and patent/registration linkage, 34 AM. J. LAW & MED. 303-344 (2008) David McCoy, Sara Bennett, Sophie Witter, Bob Pond, Brook Baker, Jeff Gow, Sudeep Chand, Tim Ensor, Barbara McPake, Gavin George, Health worker salaries and incomes in sub-Saharan Africa, 371 Lancet 675-681 (2008)
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Gorik Ooms, Wim Van Damme, Brook K. Baker, Paul Zeitz, Ted Schrecker, “The „diagonal‟ approach to Global Fund financing: a cure for the broader malaise of health systems? 4 Globalization & Health 6 (2008) http://www.globalizationandhealth.com/content/pdf/1744-8603-4-6.pdf
Drug Registration Barriers and Logjams, in MISSING THE TARGET #5: IMPROVING AIDS DRUG
ACCESS AND ADVANCING HEALTH CARE FOR ALL, 49-58 (ITPC Dec. 2007)
http://www.aidstreatmentaccess.org/itpc5th.pdf
Placing Access to Medicines on the Human Rights Agenda in The Power of Pills: Social, Ethical
& Legal Issues in Drug Development, Marketing & Pricing, 239-248 (Jillian Clare Cohen, Patricia
Illingsworth & Edo Schüklenk eds., 2006).
Processes and Issues for Improving Access to Medicines: Willingness and Ability to Utilize
TRIPS Flexibilities in Non-Producing Countries, U.K. Dept. for Int’l Development, Health Systems
Resource Centre (September 2004)
http://www.iprsonline.org/resources/docs/Baker_TRIPS_Flex.pdf
Arthritic Flexibilities for Accessing Medicines, Analysis of WTO Action Regarding Paragraph 6 of
the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health, 14 Ind. Int’l & Comp. L. Rev.
613-715 (May 2004).
Working Paper: Analysis and Response to Recent WTO Action Regarding TRIPS Agreement
and Public Health, United Nations Millennium Development Goals Project, Task Force 5:
Infectious Diseases and Access to Essential Medicines (Dec. 2003).
Teaching Legal Skills in South Africa: A Transition from Cross-Cultural Collaboration to
International HIV/AIDS Solidarity, 9 J. Legal Writing Inst. 145-183 (2003).
2011 Policy papers/analyses, periodicals:
Brook K. Baker, Health GAP Policy Analysis: U.S. Patent and Data Protection Proposals in Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiations – A Grave Threat to Access-to-Medicines (Nov. 28, 2011) Brook K. Baker, Novartis: Keeping Its Head in the Sand re the Impact of Its Challenge to the India Patent Act (Nov. 11, 2011) http://actupbasel.org/actupbasel/?Novartis-Keeping-Its-Head-in-the Brook K. Baker, US Trade-Enhancing Access to Medicines (Access Window) in its proposed TPP IP text is a sham (Oct. 25, 2011) Brook K. Baker, US Doha flexibilities in its proposed TPP IP text are not nearly good enough (Oct. 23, 2011) Brook K. Baker, Analysis of Civil Society Petition to the Medicines Patent Pool (Oct. 13, 2011) Brook K. Baker, Biased IP Technical Assistance, Judicial Independence, and Recusals – Novartis‟s attack on India Patent Act and Beyond (Sept. 11, 2011) http://donttradeourlivesaway.wordpress.com/2011/09/12/biased-ip-technical-assistance-judicial-independence-and-recusals-novartiss-attack-on-india-patent-act-and-beyond/ Co-author, Public Citizen & Health GAP, Briefing Memo: Vietnam and the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (2011) http://www.citizen.org/documents/Vietnam-and-the-Trans-Pacific-Partnership-Agreement.pdf and Chart: Comparative Analysis of the U.S. Intellectual Property Proposal and Vietnamese Law (2011) http://www.citizen.org/documents/tppa-access-chart.pdf
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Co-author, Public Citizen, Health GAP, TWN, & I-MAK, Briefing Memo: Risks of the Trans-Pacific Free Trade Agreement for Access to Medicines - Analysis of the Leaked U.S. Paper on Eliminating Pre-Grant Opposition (2011) http://www.citizen.org/documents/analysis-of-leaked-US-paper-on-eliminating-pregrant-opposition.pdf Brook K. Baker, Corporate Self-Interest and Strategic Choices: Gilead Licenses to the Medicines Patent Pool, IP-Watch (July 21, 2011) http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2011/07/21/corporate-self-interest-and-strategic-choices-gilead-licenses-to-medicines-patent-pool/ Brook K. Baker & Tenu Avafia, The Evolution of IPRs from Humble Beginnings to the Modern Day TRIPS-plus Era: Implications for Treatment Access, UNDP/UNAIDS Global Commission on HIV and the Law (commissioned paper June 2011) Kevin Outterson and Brook Baker, Stand firm on Pharmac – law expert, Pharmacy Today (June 3, 2011) http://www.pharmacy-today.co.nz/blog?objId=54b5b550-67da-4dfd-94d6-fe70371c8886 Brook K. Baker, Mission Crash: The Intolerable Policy Incoherence in US AIDS Policy, Global and Domestic (May 14, 2011) http://www.africafocus.org/docs11/hiv1105.php
2010 Publications, Policy paper/analysis, Newspaper articles:
Brook K. Baker, Background Paper: Global Fund CS/PS Pre-Consultation on the Joint Health System Strengthening Platform, 27-28 January 2010, Geneva Brook K. Baker, Health GAP Policy Analysis: Making a Mistake on Treatment – PEPFAR‟s New Five-Year Strategy, Feb. 5, 2010 http://www.healthgap.org/documents/WaitinginlinetodiethenewObamaglobalAIDSpolicy.pdf. Brook K. Baker and Asia Russell, Health GAP (Global Access Project) Remarks in the Matter of 2010 Special 301 Review, United States Trade Representative, (March 3, 2010) www.healthgap.org/documents/testimony_HGAPasia301watchlist2010.doc. Brook K. Baker, CTL-for-Health/FTT-with-Health: Resource-Needs Estimate and an Assessment of Funding Modalities (paid consultancy 2010) http://www.actionforglobalhealth.eu/fileadmin/AfGH_Intranet/AFGH/Publications/CTL-HSS_Funding_Mechanisms_Final.pdf. Brook K. Baker, UNITAID Patent Pool Royalties – A Range of Alternatives (2010). Brook K. Baker, ACTA: Risks of Intermediary Liability to Access to Medicines (June 2010) Brook K. Baker, IMF Macroeconomic Fundamentalism and the AIDS Pandemic, Mass. Dissent (2010) http://www.nlgmass.org/2010/04/
Brook K. Baker, Truths, Half-Truths, and Untruths: The Obama Administration Defense of its Failing Global AIDS Strategy (August 2010) http://takeanumber.org/facts/truth.html. Brook K. Baker, Letter – Effect of development assistance on domestic health expenditures, 376 Lancet 589-590 (2010) http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(10)61289-5/fulltext?elsca1=TL-210810&elsca2=email&elsca3=segment. Brook K. Baker, ViiV Licenses vs. the Patent Pool: Unanswered Questions and Unwarranted Antipathy (August 2010) http://www.healthgap.org/trips/viiv_analysis.htm.
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Tenu Avafia & Brook K. Baker, Background Paper: Laws and Practices that Facilitate or Impede HIV-Related Treatment Access, UNDP/UNAIDS Global Commission on HIV and the Law (commissioned paper September 2010) Joint Expert Letter to Government of Thailand on Including Resident Non-Citizens as Eligible Recipients of Medicines Produced under Renewal of Compulsory Licenses in Thailand (September 29, 2010) Brook K. Baker, Flat Funding for Global AIDS: What are the facts; what is the human cost, Achieve (Fall 2010) http://www.gmhc.org/files/editor/file/r_a_fall10.pdf Brook K. Baker, Comments to the Government of India on the Compulsory License Policy of India (September 30, 2010)
2011 Presentations, Expert Consultations, and Trainings
Second Global Forum on Human Resource for Health, January 25-29, 2011, Bangkok, Thailand
Presentation of CS Platform, Side Session Health Workforce Advocacy Initiative, January 25
Moderator, Global Health Workforce Alliance Members Post-Forum Session, January 30 HEARD, Slums and HIV Meeting, February 16, 2011, UKZN, Westville, S. Africa OSF Public Health Program seminar, A Taste of their own Medicine! Campaigning on Intellectual Property Rights and Access to Essential Medicines, March 28-30, 2011 Livingstone, Zambia Presentation: African Health Workforce & Panel: Targeting Specific Drivers to Fast Track Rebuilding the Healthcare Sector, Leaders in Healthcare Conference, Johannesburg, South Africa, May 9, 2011 UNDP-SADC Workshop on Intellectual Property Enforcement and Access to Essential Medicines, Pretoria, South Africa, June 22-23, 2011
Panelist, Potential impact of Partnership Agreements (EPAs) negotiations on public health
Moderator, Proliferation of National Anti-Counterfeiting Legislation: The Experience of EAC Countries
Co-facilitator, Mitigating the negative impacts of anti-counterfeit legislation and developing a public health agenda for ensuring safe and efficacious medicines of good quality
Co-Instructor, Intellectual Property and Access to Medicine Two-Week Intensive, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, S. Africa, June 27-July 8, 2011 Global Congress on Public Interest Intellectual Property Law, American University, August 25-27, 2011
Panel, Limitations and Exceptions for Special Subjects and Objects
Co-Chair, Access to Medicines I: FTAs and Enforcement
Co-Chair, Access to Medicines II: Patent Pool and Licenses
Panelist, UNDP/Government of Brazil Side Event on “Promoting Access to Essential Drugs at Home and in the Global South” at the UN High Level Meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases, September 20, 2011, New York City, New York Presentation, The Role of the Medicines Patent Pool in access to HIV Medicines – What Can the Pool Offer, What to do Where the Pool Cannot Deliver, UNITAID 3
rd Consultative Forum, October
4-5, 2011, Geneva, Switzerland
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Commentator, Reflections and Next Steps: Opportunities for Collaboration, Questions and Research Topics, IP/Innovation Connection, Northeastern University, September 27, 2011 Guest Lecture, Introduction to IP: Alternative Perspectives, Intro to IP course, Nov. 7, 2011 Panelist, Conflicting Trajectories – The Promise of Treatment as Prevention, NUSL World AIDS Day Panel 2012: The Beginning of the End of AIDS?, Northeastern University Dec. 1, 2011 Discussant, Water and HIV, NUSL Human Rights Caucus Forum, Northeastern University, Dec. 7, 2011 Faculty Roundtable, Treatment as Prevention: Addressing Ethical, Policy, and Implementation Conundrums, Northeastern Program on Health Policy & Law, Dec. 12, 2011
2010 Presentations, Expert Consultations, and Trainings
Global Fund CS/PS Pre-Consultation on the Joint Health System Strengthening Platform, 27-28 January 2010, Geneva Improving Access to Essential Medicines by Implementing the WTO August 30 2003 Decision: Challenges and Opportunities, UNDP, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, UNICEF, 17 February 2010, New York City Workshop: Reforming Canada‟s Access to Medicines Regime (CAMR) Bill c-393 – Finding the Expeditious Solution, UNDP, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, UNICEF, 18 February 2010, New York City U.S. Campaigns for Universal Access to HIV/AIDS Prevention, Treatment and Care, Health Research Exchange Northeastern University, 19 February 2010 Consultation: Public Interest Analysis of the Global IP Enforcement Agenda, American University Washington College of Law, 23 February 2010, Washington D.C. Panel: Have Fiscal Policies Constrained Needed Responses to the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Developing Countries, World Bank, 23 February 2010, Washington D.C. World Bank – CSO Health Roundtable: Continuing the Dialogue on Health toward 2015, 8 April 2010, Brussels, Belgium Panel: AIDS Exceptionalism, Health Aid Efficiency Seminar, 13 April 2010, Yale University, New Haven, CT Panel: Film Series: Have You Heard from Johannesburg – Road to Resistance and Hell of a Job, 5 May 2010, Boston, Massachusetts Expert Speaker: Roundtable: Funding for health systems, Seminar: Right to Health: Challenges in funding, health systems, and universal access in development policies, 1 June 2010, Madrid, Spain Expert Consultation – Public Interest Analysis of the International Intellectual Property Enforcement Agenda, June 16-18, 2010, American University Washington College of Law, Washington, D.C. Co-Instructor, Intellectual Property and Access to Medicine Two-Week Intensive, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, S. Africa, July 13-23, 2010
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Faculty Discussion, Responding to the Threat of Flat-Funding for Global AIDS, Northeastern U. School of Law, Sept. 13, 2010
Panel, A Case Study in Influencing Policy on a Global Health Level: Driving Down the Price of HIV and TB Drugs, Global Health Student Conference: If Not Now, When? Mobilizing for the Right to Health, Partners in Health, Boston (Sept. 26, 2010) Presentation, International Intellectual Property Regime and Access to HIV Medicines, NUSL International Law Society, October 12, 2010 Co-Facilitator, Panel: Immigrant Communities and Well-being: The Right to Health, the Right to Healthcare, and the Rights of Immigrants with Disabilities, NUSL PHRGE Institute: Beyond National Security: Immigrants and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Boston, October 13-14, 2010 Panel, Third Party Liability under the Anti-Countering Trade Agreement and its Impact on Access to Medicines, Consultation with the UN Special Rapporteur on Health, American University Law School, Washington D.C., October 28, 2010
Health GAP: Bending the Curves and Fighting the Global AIDS Pandemic, Evanston H.S., Evanston, Illinois, November 27, 2010 Panel, Recent successes, the crisis in global AIDS funding, and treatment activism, Universal Access and Human Rights: Panel on Global HIV/AIDS Policy and Practice, Northeastern U. School of Law, December 1, 2010 Global AIDS Strategy Retreats, Health GAP, NYC, October 24, 2010; Washington, D.C., December 3-5, 2010
Presentation, Grounded Advocacy – Making Treatment Advocacy Real, HealthRoots Political Economy of Health Seminar Series, Harvard School of Public Health, December 8, 2010 Panel, Launch of Draft Boston Principle on the Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of Noncitizens, NUSL, December 10, 2010
2009 Publications, Policy papers/analysis, Newspaper articles:
GSK Access to Medicines: The Good, the Bad, and the Illusory, Feb. 15, 2009 http://www.healthgap.org/bakeronGSK.htm Skepticism about the Barton/Pfizer Access-to-Medicines Pricing Proposal, Feb. 17, 2009 http://www.healthgap.org/trips/bakeronpfizer.htm Op-Ed with Joia S. Mukherjee, The Danger of IMF Policies, Boston Globe, June 1, 2009 http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/06/01/the_danger_of_imf_policies?mode=PF Expert Submission to Government of India, Ministry of Commerce and Industry: Mashelkar Report II underestimates India‟s Right to Define Patentability Standards (October 9, 2009) http://www.healthgap.org/analysis-of-mashelkar-report.htm Brook K. Baker, Matt Kavanagh, and Christine Lubinski, Letter to U.S. Global AIDS Ambassador Eric Goosby, Recommendation for U.S. Treatment Target (October 15, 2009)
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Interview, Air America – Ron Regan Show, Obama Report Card on Global AIDS, December 1, 2009. Op-Ed with Donna Barry, An express line for AIDS treatment, Boston Globe, December 7, 2009 http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/12/07/an_express_line_for_aids_treatment/
2009 Presentations, Expert Consultations, and Trainings:
Strategy Retreat, Health Global Access Project, New York City, Jan. 24-25, 2009 Global Pharmaceutical Symposium – Pharma Wars: More ARVs, More than ARVs, More than Africa, Grinnell College, Iowa, Feb. 5, 2009 Response, Achieving Innovation + Access to Global Pharmaceutical Markets: A Discussion with Professor John Barton, Knowledge Ecology International and American University Washington College of Law Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, Washington, D.C., Feb. 19, 2009 Participant, Civil Society Forum on the High Level Taskforce on Innovative International Financing for Health Systems, London, March 5, 2009 Macroeconomic Literacy Training, Physicians for Human Rights, ActionAid International USA, Partners In Health, Health Gap, François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Cambridge, MA, March 12-13, 2009 Consultation on maximizing synergies between health systems and global health initiatives through work on building and sustaining health workforce development, WHO, Washington D.C., March 17-18, 2009 Fourth Expert Consultation on Positive Synergies between Health Systems and Global Health Initiatives, Geneva, Switzerland, March 26-28, 2009 Panel: Perspective on Global Health Delivery and Workshop Leader, GlobeMed Global Health Summit, Northwestern U., Evanston, IL, April 4, 2009 Panel: Making medicine affordable in the developing world: the importance of multi-sectoral collaboration, Harvard International Relations Council's Global Health Day, April 8, 2009 Women and HIV: Myths and Realities of Vulnerabilities and Burdens, Webster College, St. Louis, April 16, 2009 Co-Instructor, SACD Region Parliamentarians: Access to Medicines, University of Pretoria, May 12-14, 2009 Resource Needs Estimates - Bridging the Gap: A Dialogue Between HIV/AIDS and Primary Health Care Advocate, Partners in Health, Stony Brook Conf. Center, NY, May 15-17, 2009 Expert Consultation to develop a framework for performance-based governance for Country Coordinating Mechanisms, Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Geneva, May 27-29, 2009 Panel: Biomedical Innovation: Current Issues and Potential Solutions with Perspectives from Academia and Public Policy, Mt. Sinai Medical School, NY, June 1, 2009
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Co-Instructor, Intellectual Property and Access to Medicine Two Week Intensive, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, S. Africa, June 29-July 10, 2009 Presentation: The Pernicious, Continuing Impact of IMF Macro-Economic Constraint Policies on Domestic and Donor Health Spending, Conference of the Society of Law Teachers of Southern Africa, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, S. Africa, July 14, 2009 Accelerating the Impact of HIV Programming on Health Systems Strengthening: Cape Town Pre-IAS AIDS Conference Meeting July 17-18, 2009. Co-Instructor, OSI Public Health Program Workshop: Intellectual Property, Trade and Access to Medicines in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Nat’l U. Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kiev, Ukraine, Sept. 14-18, 2009 Participant, Global Responsibilities for Global Health Rights Conference, Concert Noble, Brussels, Belgium, October 19-21, 2009; Follow-Up Civil Society Meeting, Antwerp, Belgium, October 22, 2009 Co-Moderator, Panel – Paris Accord Round II: Medical Research and Development, Paris, France October 23-24, 2009 Panel 2: UNITAID HIV/AIDS Patent Pool Initiative, Biotech Patent Pool Workshop, University of California, Berkeley, November 6, 2009 Strategy Retreat, Health Global Access Project, New York City, November 13-15, 2009 Informal Consultation: Advocacy and Communication Priorities for 2010-2011, Global Health Workforce Alliance, Geneva, Switzerland, November 19-20, 2009
2008 Publications, Policy papers/analysis, Newspaper articles:
Brook K. Baker, PEPFAR I vs. Bush‟s PEPFAR II: The Only Outcome that Doubles is Deaths; Bush Proposal Dramatically Scales-Back U.S. Funding, Treatment, Prevention & Care (Jan. 24, 2008)
Commentary: India and Thailand show the way on access to medicines, Scrip World Pharmaceutical News (Feb. 1, 2008)
Co-Author, Global Health Workforce Alliance, Health Workforce Advocacy Initiative, Principles
that should inform National Health Workforce Strategies (Feb. 2008)
Expert Letter to Thai Ministry of Health and Prime Minister, The Legality and Propriety of Thailand‟s Public Non-Commercial Use Licenses for AIDS, Heart-Disease, and Cancer Medicines, Feb. 19, 2008 Brook K. Baker, U.S./E.U. Doubletalk on Proposed Trade Sanctions against Thailand for its Continuing Compulsory Licensing Policy (March 21, 2008) Estimates of potential costs savings on second-generation antiretroviral medicines – single-source monopolies vs. patent-pool open competition, Annex 2, Update for the Secretariat on Patent Pool UNITAID/EB8/2008/11/1, June 11, 2008
Expert Comments – Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) and Access to HIV Treatment: Draft UNAIDS, UNDP & WHO Policy Brief, (Sept. 9, 2008) Voluntary Licenses for Local Production of Antiretrovirals in Brazil, (Sept. 9, 2008)
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Skepticism about the Health Impact Fund, Nov. 24, 2008 http://www.healthgap.org/trips/bakeronHIF.htm
2008 Presentations, Expert Consultations, and Trainings:
NGO Strategy Meeting, Challenging IMF Macroeconomic Restraint Policies, Washington, D.C, Jan. 3, 2008 Expert Opinion: Appeal of the Thai Competition Commission Decision of 27 December 2007Thailand v. Abbott Laboratories, Jan. 14, 2008 Technical Paper: The TRIPS Agreement and the Paris Convention Do Not Require Pipeline Patents, submitted to General Attorney of the Republic of Brazil, Mr. António Fernando Barros e Silva e Souza, Jan. 18, 2008 Civil Society Consultation, Community System Strengthening, Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Geneva, Jan. 15-16, 2008 Symposium, Tackling Global Health Issues Through Law & Policy, Boston University School of Law, Feb. 2, 2008 Presentation: HIV and the Gendered Politics of Care in South Africa: Paying Community Health Workers, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, Feb. 12, 2008 Consultation, University of KwaZulu Natal, Certificate Program on Intellectual Property Rights and Access to Medicines, Durban, South Africa, Feb. 22-29, 2008. Guest lecture, IPRs and Access to Medicines, Public Health Law class, University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban, South Africa, Feb. 28, 2008 First Global Forum on Human Resources for Health, Kampala, Uganda, March 2-7, 2008 Breakout Session 5.1. - Advocacy for financing
Macro-economic literacy training workshop
Global Justice Conference, Washington D.C., March 29-31, 2008 Access to Medicines – the New Pharma Wars Answering Questions – Pharma Myths and Facts
Pharma Wars, Universities Allied for Essential Medicine and Physicians for Human Rights Workshop, U. Mass. Medical School, Worcester, MA, March 31, 2008 Global AIDS Strategy Retreat, Health GAP, New York City, New York, April 5-6, 2008 Conference Planning Meeting, Africa Community Health Worker Conference: Policies, Practices and Training, George Washington U., Washington, D.C., April 9, 2008 Presentation: Introduction to Compulsory Licenses, Second Global South Dialogue on HIV/AIDS and Access to Treatment, New Delhi, India, April 18-21, 2008 Presentation: Overview of Civil Society Principles on the IHP+, Civil Society Forum on the International Health Partnerships Plus Related Initiatives, Movenpick Hotel, Geneva (23 May 2008) Winning the Fight against AIDS in Africa, Dorchester People for Peace (June 2, 2008)
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Health Alliance International: Macroeconomic Literacy Training, Seattle Washington (June 19 and 20, 2008) Intensive Two-Week Course: Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines, University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban, South Africa, July 7-18 (2008) International AIDS Conference, Mexico City, Mexico, August 2-8, 2008
Skill Workshop Panel – IMF Policies Blocking the Response to HIV/AIDS: A Call to Action, August 4
Second Expert Consultation – Maximizing Positive Synergies Between Health Systems and Global Health Initiatives, Mexico City, August 5
B. Baker, T.R. Corcoran, A. Russell, A. Lugg, THPE0961 Abstract: Addressing gaps in financing for HIV and human resources for health, August 7
A. Russell, A. Boyle, J. Flynn, B. Baker. THPE1032 Abstract: Overcoming Barriers to Registration of Essential AIDS Medicines, August 7
B. Baker, E. Ombaka. THPE0962 Abstract: The Danger of Drug Donations to the Global Fund, August 7
Expert Consultation Academic Group, Maximizing Positive Synergies Between Health Systems and Global Health Initiatives, Harvard School of Public Health, August 15, 2008 Presentations – Trends in Donor Financing for Health and How and Why the IMF Blocks the Global Response to HIV/AIDS, Joint Retreat CS Delegations, UNAIDS, GF, UNIAID, GAVI, and IHP+, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, September 2-4, 2008 Third Expert Consultation on Positive Synergies between Health Systems and Global Health Initiatives, Geneva, Switzerland, October 2-3, 2008 Global Health Workforce Alliance 1st Coordination Meeting of the Task Forces and Working Groups GHWA, Geneva, Switzerland, October 3, 2008 Panel: Translating critical understandings into real-world change: Policy, Action and Global Health, 2
nd Annual Student Global Health Conference Building a Movement: Action for Justice,
Boston U. School of Public Health, October 5, 2008 Presentations – Drug Company Economics and the R&D Excuse; TRIPS/TRIPS-Flexibilities/TRIPS-plus and Novartis v. India, Workshop - Bridging the Gap - PharmFree joins Access to Essential Medicines, University of Illinois, Chicago, October 11, 2008. Presentations – IMF Macroeconomic Constraints on Global Health Spending; UNITAID Patent Pool Advocacy, Student Global AIDS Campaign New England Regional Summit, Harvard University, Nov. 8, 2008 Presentation, IMF Expenditure Ceilings and Health Financing in Africa, Conference of Africa Chairs of Health, HIV, Gender & Finance Parliamentary Committees, UKNECA Conf. Center, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Nov. 12-14, 2008 Guest Lecture, Global AIDS Campaigns, NU Politics of Health Care Policy, Nov. 19, 2008 Radio Interview, World AIDS Day, WORT-FM Community Radio, Madison, Wisconsin, Dec. 1, 2008 Panel Discussion World AIDS Day, Our Research, Our Responsibility: Making University Innovations Available in Developing Countries, Northeastern U. School of Law, Dec. 2, 2008 Panel, Leadership in the Global Response to HIV/AIDS, Boston University, Dec. 4, 2008
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2007 Publications, Policy papers/analysis, Newspaper articles:
Civil Society Options Paper on Community System Strengthening, Meeting Report: Increasing Civil Society Impact on the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria: Strategic Options and Deliberations, 5-7 January 2007 http://www.icaso.org/resources/CS_Report_Policy_Paper_Jan07.pdf PhRMA lies and Distortions - Thai Compulsory Licenses, Jan. 26, 2007 http://www.cptech.org/blogs/ipdisputesinmedicine/2007/01/phrma-lies-and-distortions-thai_28.html Mashelkar Report Misstates India‟s Right to Define Scope of Patentability and Threatens Access to Medicines, Jan. 26, 2007 http://www.cptech.org/blogs/ipdisputesinmedicine/2007/01/mashelkar-report-misstates-indias.html A deconstruction of Novartis‟ defense of its patent case against India, Feb. 7, 2007 http://www.cptech.org/ip/health/c/india/hgap02072007.html A New Low in the Pharma Drug Wars – Abbott Withdraws Seven Medicines in Thailand, (March 14, 2007) http://www.cptech.org/blogs/ipdisputesinmedicine/2007/03/new-low-in-pharma-drug-wars-abbott.html A deadly game of pharmaceutical apartheid, The Nation (Thailand) (March 16, 2007) http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2007/03/16/opinion/opinion_30029417.php NGO Response to Abbott‟s announced $1000 price for Aluvia in Low- and Lower-Middle Income Countries (April 10, 2007) http://www.abbottsgreed.com/index.php?title=NGO_Response_to_Abbott_Price_Reduction Abbott‟s Blackmail against Thailand continues – Lives Hang in the Balance (April 12, 2007) http://www.essentialdrugs.org/edrug/archive/200704/msg00054.php The Eight Deadly Lies of Big Pharma, The Nation (Thailand) (April 21, 2007) http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2007/04/21/opinion/opinion_30032324.php Brook K. Baker, Sean Flynn and Judit Rius Sanjuan, Specious Arguments on Thailand‟s Compulsory Licensing: World‟s Premier Law Firm goes to Bat for Abbott, The Bangkok Post (April 27, 2007) http://www.readbangkokpost.com/business/pharmaceuticals/intellectual_property_or_savin_2.php Published Interview in Brazilian Press: Fabiane Leite, Industries Try to Discredit Country, Affirms Consultant, Revista da Fohla – Folha de S.Paulo, May 7, 2007 Health GAP, Essential Action NGO Analysis - The efficacy of compulsory licenses and international cooperation: Thailand and Brazil, the Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative and generic companies, and UNITAID and WHO all combine forces to lower AIDS drug prices. Bold moves on several fronts are helping to lower the price of key second-line and improved first-line therapies for HIV/AIDS helping to pave the way to Universal Access by 2010 (May 8, 2007) US Action Plan for Thailand Comes Straight from Big Pharma (May 9, 2007) http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/ip-health/2007-May/011145.html Fixing, Not Just Clarifying, New Trade Policy Rules on Exceptions to Data Exclusivity and D.E. Concurrency (May 15, 2007)
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Twice As Many Die: Scrutinizing Bush‟s duplicitous new AIDS plan, Dollars & Sense 8-10 (July/August 2007) http://www.dollarsandsense.org/archives/2007/0707baker.html Rick Rowden & Brook K. Baker, Background Memo: NGOs Continuing Concern about IMF Policies (August 2007) http://www.actionaidusa.org/pdf/Over-120-International-NGOs-Call-On-IMF.pdf E.U. Demands on Thailand are Based on Lies and Misrepresentations (Aug. 16, 2007) http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/ip-health/2007-August/011586.html The Retreat from Universal Access Goals and Resource Needs for Access to Treatment (Aug. 22, 2007) Co-Author, Civil Society Critique and Proposed Edits to UNAIDS Resource Needs Estimates to Achieve Universal Access to HIV Prevention, Treatment, Care and Support 2009-2015 (Sept. 18, 2007)
Comments, Human Rights Guidelines for Pharmaceutical Companies in relation to Access to
Medicines, UN Special Rapporteur (Sept. 28, 2007) Simon Collins, Brook K Baker, Gregg Gonsales, Marco Gomes, The dangers of attacking disease programmes for developing countries, 335 British Med. J. 646 (Sept. 29, 2007) http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/335/7621/646 Co-Author, Global Health Workforce Alliance, Health Workforce Advocacy Initiative, Systems Support for Task Shifting (Geneva, Oct. 5, 2007) Comment: Negative Impacts of IMF Fiscal Restraint Policies on Scaling-Up the Global Response to Orphans and Vulnerable Children, Joint Learning Initiative on Children and HIV/AIDS (Oct. 9, 2007) Letter to the Editor, Standing up to Big Pharma, knowing the law and the facts, The Hill (0ct. 24, 2007) http://thehill.com/index2.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=69302&pop=1&page=0&Itemid=73 International Trade and IPR Rules: Myths and Facts (Thailand Conference Paper, Nov. 21-23 2007) Co-Author, HWAI response: Task shifting guidelines, Nov. 26, 2007 Confronting Macroeconomic Constraints that Impact UNICEF‟s Commitments (Nov. 29, 2007)
Global Health Workforce Alliance, Health Workforce Advocacy Initiative, Principles that should
inform National Health Workforce Strategies (Dec. 2007)
2007 Victories – Fewer Patents, More Compulsory Licenses: The Knock-Off Effects of India's Strict Patent Act and Thailand's Compulsory Licenses (Dec. 11, 2007)
2007 Presentations, Expert Consultations, and Trainings:
Strategic options to increase civil society participation in the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria', Amsterdam, the Netherlands, January 5-7, 2007
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Strategic Retreats, Health GAP, New York City, Jan. 13-15, March 24-25, 2007, Sept. 8-9, 2007, Dec. 15-16, 2007 Recent Development: India, IPRs, and Access to Medicines, Meeting on India and Access to Medicines, Stop HIV/AIDS in India Initiative, Washington D.C., Jan. 17, 2007 Radio interview, Michael Hatchey, WERS, Boston, aired Feb. 4, 2007 Workshop, IPRs, Trade, and Access to Medicines, Global Justice Conference on AIDS, Trade & Child Survival, Washington, D.C., Feb, 3, 2007 2007 Trade Strategy Conference, AFL-CIO, Alliance for Responsible Trade, Citizens Trade Campaign, Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch, and others, Washington, D.C., Feb. 2, 2007 Novartis v. India Teach-In, NUSL, Feb. 12, 2007 Novartis v. India Teach-In, Harvard AIDS Alliance, Feb. 13, 2007 Radio interview (1 hour), Public Health Radio – Marvin Malek, March 20, 2007 NUSL, Comparative Constitutional Law class, Right to Health, March 28, 2007
Panel: A Prescription for Global Access: Patent Law and the Availability of Life-saving Medications, Harvard Law School Human Rights Program, April 4, 2007 Workshop, The New Pharma Wars: Novartis v. India and Abbott v. Thailand, Harvard AIDS Tank, April 5, 2007 Workshop, Access to Medicine: The Bigger Access to Medicines Picture – Life Beyond TRIPS, UK Dept. for International Development and the Lancet, London, April 19-20, 2007 Presentation, Human Rights and African AIDS Pandemic, Human Rights Forum, The Violence Prevention and Diversity Program (VPD) at the Center for the Study of Sport in Society, Northeastern University (May 2, 2007) Workshop, The New Pharma Wars: India and Thailand, Partners In Health, May 24, 2007 and July 19, 2007 Radio interview, Wakeup Call (WBAI 99.5FM)New York City May 31, 2007 Presentation: Critique of the Global Architecture for Financing HRH/HSS, Meeting Global Health Workforce Alliance, Advocacy Working Group, Washington, D.C., July 15-17, 2007 NU, Pharmacy class, Patents, Prices, and Trade Agreements: Impacts on the Global AIDS Pandemic, July 18, 2007 Presentation, Patent and Registration Issues Affecting Access to Medicines, Health GAP Allies Strategy Retreat, NYC, Sept. 8-9, 2007 Pharma Wars – The WTO Doha Declaration and Thai Compulsory Licenses, Panel: Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines in the Developing World, DePaul University College of Law and Doctors Without Borders, Chicago, Sept., 20, 2007 http://140.192.59.145/centers_institutes/ciplit/emails/doctors_wo_borders.html
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Presentation, Student Global AIDS Campaign, New England Strategy Retreat, AIDS as a Symptom: The Broader Issues of Debt, Trade, and Treatment Access, Smith College (Sept. 29, 2007)
Expert Review, Walking the Talk: Putting Women‟s Rights at the Heart of the HIV and AIDS Response (VSO-ActionAid 2007) Attendance, Meeting Children's Needs in a World with HIV/AIDS: An International Symposium, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, Sept. 24, 2007
Attendance, Food, Nutrition and Health Conference, Cambridge, MA (Oct. 11-12, 2007) Presentation, How the IMF Restricts Health/Education Sector Spending, NUSL Law & Development Study Group (Oct. 11, 2007) Presentation: IPRs and Access to Medicines, ABA SubCommittee on HIV/AIDS, Chicago (Nov. 2, 2007) Globalization, Governance and Development class, Boston University, Nov. 5, 2007
Race, Gender and Class class, Northeastern U., Nov. 7, 2007 Panel, One Campaign – Millennium Development Goals, Boston University (Nov. 15, 2007) Presentation and Paper, International Trade and IPR Rules: Myths and Facts, INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE ON COMPULSORY LICENSING: INNOVATION AND ACCESS FOR ALL – BANGKOK, NOV. 21-23, 2008
Advocacy in Pharmacy Health Policy class, Northeastern U., Nov. 28, 2007
Dan Rather Reports, New India Patent Act (Dec. 4, 2007) http://www.hd.net/drr240.html
2001-2006 Shorter AIDS-Related Articles
TRANSATLANTIC CONSUMER DIALOGUE, Producing HIV/AIDS Medicines for Export/Import
under TRIPS, Articles 31(f), (k) and 30 (November 6, 2001) (Presented Dec. 3-4, 2001, TACD
Conf.)
Activist Response to the African AIDS Pandemic, Spark Magazine (Summer 2002). Brook K. Baker and Michael Hochman, Death Sentence, The American Prospect online (Dec. 20, 2002). Intellectual Property Rights and Access to Medicines: The USTR‟s Dismal Economics and Death by Patent, Econ-Atrocity – Center for Popular Economics online (Dec. 2002). Responding to the African Aids Pandemic, Mass Dissent (Mass. Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, April 2002). Demographics of the African AIDS Pandemic, Mass Dissent (Mass. Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, May 2002). U.S. Trade Policy Intensifies the AIDS Pandemic, Mass Dissent (Mass. Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, March 2003)
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Women and the Global AIDS Pandemic, Mass Dissent (Mass. Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, March 2004) INDIA‟S 2005 PATENT ACT: Death by Patent or Universal Access to Second- and Future-Generation ARVs? 93 Global AIDSLink 17 (Sept./Oct. 2005). Pills Without Providers: Where are the Health Workers?, 15(4) ACRIA Update 6-8 (2006).
Price-cut handcuffs: Thailand must stand up to Merck‟s counter-offensive and fully implement its compulsory licence on efavirenz, 196 Third World Resurgence 23-24 (Dec. 06) http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:71AEroa28IQJ:www.twnside.org.sg/title2/resurgence/196/cover6.doc+price+cut+handcuffs&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=netscape-pp .
U.S. Pursuit of TRIPS-plus Intellectual Property Rights and its Opposition to Thailand‟s Lawful Compulsory License for Merck‟s Efavirenz Undermines its own Global AIDS Initiative, Threatening a Fivefold Increase in the Costs of Medicines, Dec. 22, 2006 http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/ip-health/2007-January/010470.html
2005-2006 Policy papers and analyses (selected)
Health GAP Report: Missing the Target – An Assessment of Major Multilateral and Bilateral HIV/AIDS Programs (Dec. 1, 2005)
NGO Policy Brief: Myths and Realities Impact of U.S.-Thai FTA on Access to Medicines (Jan. 25,
2006)
Health GAP Report - Between the Lines - GAO Report on PEPFAR Prevention Programs: U.S. Abstinence/Being Faithful-Only Programs Produce Stigma and Death (April 5, 2006) Health Gap Policy Review of HRH/HSS Proposals in the 2005 World Bank Global HIV/AIDS Program of Action (April 7, 2006)
Fundamental Criteria for HRH/HSS Campaigns (June 2006)
NGO POLICY BRIEF: Free Trade Agreements and Intellectual Property Doom Access to
Medicines (August 16, 2006)
NGO POLICY BRIEF: Drug Companies‟ Negative Role in Access to Medicines
(August 13, 2006) Paying for Care Labor: Choices and Contradictions in a Community Healthcare Worker Campaign (September 2006) Market Dynamics and The Global Fund: Background Research And Analysis (McKinsey & Company, 30 August 2006) Civil Society Critique Re: Competition Fostering (September 2006) Long Term Global Funding Need and the Right Global Fund Size: The Case for Option C ($8-$11 billion/year by 2010) (September 2006) U.S. Pursuit of TRIPS-plus Intellectual Property Rights and its Opposition to Thailand‟s Lawful Compulsory License for Merck‟s Efavirenz Undermines its own Global AIDS Initiative, Threatening a Fivefold Increase in the Costs of Medicines, Dec. 22, 2006
2001-06 AIDS- Related Consultations, Submissions, and Selected Presentations
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Next Steps and Strategies on Bilateral Free Trade Agreements Panel Presentation: Using FTA Side Letters and Congressional Letters to Authorize Waiver of Data Exclusivity and Linkage
Consumer Project on Technology (Nov. 16, 2006) La Propiedad Intelectual Desde La Perspectiva Del ALBA. Contribuyendo A La Conformación De Un Mundo Multipolar.
Presentation: The PhRMA Wars: U.S. 301 Watch Lists and Free Trade Agreements Presentation: The WTO TRIPS Agreement, TRIPS Flexibilities, and Access to Medicines
Caracas Venezuela (November 4-5, 2006)
Caribbean Regional Workshop On Intellectual Property And Access To Medicines, presentation, Patents & Trade Agreements- Implications on access to HIVAIDS medicines, Round Table Session II Regional Procurement of Drugs & Access to Medicine, UNDP, PAHO, CARICOM, PANCAP, Trinidad, October 23-26, 2006 Panel, Law and the Global AIDS Pandemic, NU School of Law Student Global AIDS Campaign, Sept. 21, 2006 Panel, Reflections on the 16
th International AIDS Conference:
Time to Deliver, Northeastern University, Sept. 21, 2006.
Panel, Forum on University Innovations and Global Health, Universities Allied for Essential
Medicines, University of Pennsylvania, Sept. 14, 2006
XVI International AIDS Conference, Toronto, Canada, August 12-18, 2006
J. Cohn, B.K. Baker, A. Russell, R. Weissman, MOPE0978 Abstract: Impact of IMF
macroeconomic policies on scaling up AIDS spending and spending for HRH/HSS
Press Conference: Call for a Moratorium on Free Trade Agreements and
Enforcement of TRIPS-plus IPRs
OSI Consultation: Civil society‟s role in the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and
Malaria
Task Force: International Coalition on IPRs and Access to Medicine
Panel: Women, HIV, and Human Rights – Access to Treatment, University of
Toronto
Presentation: Trade, Intellectual Property, and Access to Medicines: How Data Exclusivity and
Registration/Patent Linkage Bar Access to Generic Drugs, Conference of Society of Southern
Africa Law Teachers, Cape Town, South Africa, July 11, 2006
Participant: Global Fund Partners‟ Forum, Durban, South Africa (July 1-3, 2006).
Colloquium: Intellectual property rights, access to medicines, and human resources for health challenges in international HIV/AIDS advocacy, University of Cape Town Law Faculty, South Africa, June 22, 2006 Magistrate’s Training, HIV/AIDS in the Courtroom and the Community, Limpopo Province (June 28, 2006) Consultation, Centre for Positive Care, Limpopo, South Africa (June 25-26, 2006) Consultation, Ethekwini Municipality City Health Unit (June 15, 2006) Consultations, Children‟s Rights Centre (June 13, July 13, 2006)
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Roundtable Participant, Women, War, and Violence: Liberia, Digital Video Conference with Liberian women’s organizations and Liberian educators co-sponsored by U.S. Embassy in Liberia and Department of Women’s Studies, Northeastern University (May 8, 2006).
Expert Review Committee, The Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility report
"Benchmarking AIDS" (2006).
Panel, Human Trafficking Awareness Day, Northeastern University, April 10, 2006
Panel, Structures of Militarization and War for Women‟s Rights and Health, Conference on
Women, War, and Violence: The Local, National, and Global Impact of War on Girls and Women,
Northeastern University (March 18, 2006).
Presentation, Effective Activism and Future Activism in Fighting the Global AIDS Pandemic,
Mass. Lawyers Guild (March 14, 2006).
Consultation: Strategy and Business Plan for a Global Health Workforce Alliance, World Health
Organization, Oslo, Norway; co-chair break-out group – disseminating information and advocacy
(March 12-13, 2006).
Presentation: Access to Essential Medicines: Overcoming Intellectual Property and Health
System Barriers, UMass Access to Access to Essential Medicines and Physicians for Human
Rights, U. Mass. Medical School (Feb. 28, 2006).
Workshop: Intellectual Property, Free Trade Agreement, and Sustainable Development, The
Center for International Environment Law, American University Washington College of Law, Third
World Network, Sociedad Peruana De Derecho Ambiental, and Trade Law Centre for Southern
Africa (Feb. 27, 2006).
Consultation, Office of Senator Leahy: Life-Saving Medicines Export Act (winter 2005-summer 2006)
Consultation, Office of Senator Durbin: S. 3775 African Health Capacity Investment Act of 2006
(spring & summer 2006).
Colloquium, Globally Engaged Activism on HIV/AIDS in South Africa, South Africa Reading
Group, New York Law School (Feb. 17, 2006).
Presentation: Dismantling Barriers to Access: Intellectual Property Regimes, Free Trade
Agreements, and Health Sector Structural Adjustments, AIDS Tank, Harvard University (Feb. 16,
2006).
Commentor, Rashida Manjoo, Recent Development of Social, Economic, and Cultural Rights in
South Africa, Northeastern U. School of Law Human Rights Program (Feb. 7, 2006).
NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL – SOUTH AFRICA READING GROUP: Presentation: International Human Rights Activism and HIV/AIDS – Access to Medicines and Access to Treatment, February 17, 2006 VENEZUELA INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR – INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND ACCESS TO MEDICINES: Presentation: Placing Access to Medicines on the Human Rights Agenda; Presentation: Bird Flu/Tamiflu Crisis; Presentation: Simplifying Compulsory Licensing Procedures, Caracas, November 17-18, 2005
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WORKING GROUP: PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE HUMAN RIGHTS FRAMEWORK - Framing the Relationships between Human Rights and Public Health (with Wendy Parmet), Northeastern University School of Law, REALIZING ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS: COMMUNITIES, COURTS AND THE ACADEMY , June 16-17, 2005 NGO/HEALTH GAP SUBMISSION TO THE INDIAN TECHNICAL EXPERT GROUP ON PATENT LAW ISSUES: It Is Fully Trips-Compliant To Limit The Scope Of Patentability For Pharmaceutical Substances To “New Chemical Entities” Only, Sept. 22, 2005
Workshop, New England AIDS Education and Training Center, University of Massachusetts
Medical School, New England HIV Education Consortium, Codman Square Community Health
Center, Recent Developments: Progress and Bottlenecks in Responding to the Global AIDS
Pandemic, March 4, 2005 Consultation, Future Directions for the International AIDS Conference, Geneva, March 18, 2005 Consultation, World Health HIV/AIDS Unit and Human Resources for Health Unit, Geneva, March 17, 2005 Consultation, U.K. Dept. for Int’l Development, Access to Medicines and International Issues, March 2005
Youth AIDS Summit Workshops, Trade, Intellectual Property, and Access to Medicines;
Poverty, Racism, and Globalization: Structural Determinants of the Global AIDS Pandemic,
George Washington University, Feb. 27, 2005
Press Conference, Global AIDS Alliance, Critique of Proposed India Patent Legislation, Feb. 25, 2005
Consultation and Presentations, ASEAN-Rockefeller Foundation Project: Regional Workshop
on Intellectual Property Laws Review and Capacity Building on IPRs Related to Public Health in
the ASEAN Region, Bali (Dec. 10-12, 2004) Faculty Colloquia NU School of Law
New Barriers to Accessing Medicines: U.S. Attacks on WHO Prequalification of Fixed-dose Combination ARVs and Drug Registration Catch 22‟s, October 14, 2004 Intellectual Property and Trade Issues Affecting Access to Medicines, December 11, 2002 African AIDS, Globalization, Pharmaceutical Apartheid, and Legal Activism, March 21, 2001
Boston Social Forum (July 23 & 24, 2004) Organizer and Panelist: Globalization, Pharmaceutical Apartheid, and the African AIDS Pandemic Panelist: Global Trade Agreements, Democracy and Health
XV International AIDS Conference, Bangkok, Thailand (July 11-17, 2004)
Panelist: Trading Away Health? Free Trade Agreements and HIV/AIDS Treatment
Access
Skills Building Workshop: Access to Treatment, public health, and the U.S.-Thai Free
Trade Agreement
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Consultation, U.K. Dept. for Int’l Development, London (June 10, 2004), Processes and Issues
for Improving Access to Medicines: Willingness and Ability to Utilize TRIPS Flexibilities in Non-
Producing Countries,
Workshop, Center for Popular Economics, Trade, IPRs, and AIDS Activism,
Amherst, MA, June 5, 2004
Conference Panel, Striving for Equity in South Africa: International Health Partnerships, South Africa Partners, Boston, MA (May 18, 2004). Panel, Witnessing Democracy in South Africa: Art, Politics, and Change, Northeastern U. (May 8, 2004). Participant, Conference on Fixed-Dose Combination (FDC) Drug Products: Scientific and Technical Issues Related to Safety, Quality and Effectiveness, Gaborone, Botswana, March 29-30, 2004.
Presentation, New Barriers to Accessing Medicines: U.S. Attacks on WHO Prequalification of
Fixed-Dose Combination ARVs and Drug Registration Catch 22‟s, Centre for AIDS Programme of
Research in South Africa (March 26, 2004).
Panelist: AALS Annual Meeting, Joint Program of Sections on Africa and Minority Groups, HIV in Africa, Atlanta, January 5, 2004. Meeting of Global Experts, HIV Treatments, Vaccines and Microbicides, November 17-19, 2003.
Panel Organizer and Presentation, Intellectual Property, Globalization, and Public Health/Public
Goods, Rethinking Ideology & Strategy: Progressive Lawyering, Globalization and Markets,
Northeastern University School of Law, November 6-8, 2003. Call to Action: Africa Action’s End Global Apartheid – National Teach-In, Boston, Securing Africa‟s Right to Health: Grassroots Perspective on Fight the AIDS Crisis in Africa, October, 1, 2003 World Bank Consultation, The Role of Generics and Local Industry in Attaining the Millennium Development Goals, in Pharmaceuticals and Vaccines, June 2, 24-25, 2003. Presentation: Puget Sound HIV/AIDS Alliance Conference, Global AIDS Activism, May 31, 2003. Panelist: European Law Research Center Spring Conference 2003, Progressive Lawyering and Social Movements: Case Study Global AIDS, April 13, 2003.
Presentation: University of Massachusetts Medical School, Global AIDS, Patents, and Pharmaceutical Apartheid (April 3, 2003). Presentation: New England Clinicians’ Workshop, Teaching Legal Skills in South Africa: A Transition to International HIV/AIDS Solidarity, February 7, 2003.
Presentation: JEA/NPSA National High School Journalism Conference, Why Should Young
Journalists be Concerned about HIV/AIDS in Africa, November 10, 2001.
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Panelist: Conference of the Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue, IP and Health Care Technologies: Implementing Paragraph 4 of the Doha Declaration on TRIPS and Public Health (October 31, 2002). Panelist: International Law Association of the New York Bar Association, International Law and the Global HIV/AIDS Crisis, October 26, 2002. Strategy Session – MSF and Others: The Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), Intellectual Property Rights & Access to Medicines (October 3, 2002). Participant: Yale University Workshop on Access to Essential Medicines and University Research: Building Best Practices, September 25, 2002. Presentation: Northeast Regional Conference of the National Lawyer's Guild, African AIDS and Legal Activism, September 22, 2002.
Presentation: XIV International AIDS Conference in Barcelona, Spain, Satellite Meeting (Health GAP and Doctors Without Borders) Time To Treat: Transforming Aids Treatment From Right To Reality, The Global Fund To Treat AIDS, TB, And Malaria: Fulfilling Or Betraying The Promise Of Treatment, July 7, 2002.
Policy Roundtable Discussion: Harvard Health Caucus, Building a Legal Framework for Global
Health: How can the US and UN Work to Reduce Global Disparities, March 20, 2002.
Presentation: Harvard Institute for Health and Social Justice, Death by Patent: The International Intellectual Property Regime, July 17, 2001 Conference Organizer: Boston Global Action Network Africa AIDS Project, Access to Affordable Medicines under National and International Intellectual Property Regimes, April 7, 2001 Presentation: Gordon College Convocation, Global Causes and Global Solutions to the African AIDS Pandemic (April 2, 2001)
2003 Attendance Multi-Lateral Forums and Conferences
First South Africa AIDS Conference, Durban, South Africa, August 4-7, 2003. Bi-Annual Congress, Treatment Action Campaign, Durban, South Africa August 1-3, 2003. World Health Assembly (May 18 to 25, 2003) Geneva, Switzerland Board Meeting of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria (January 28 to February 2, 2003) Geneva, Switzerland.
2001-06 Student Group and Classroom Presentations (Selected)
NU, Introduction to Women’s Studies class, Responding to Women‟s Heightened Vulnerability to HIV/AIDS, October 12, 2006 NU Law, International Human Rights Law Research Seminar: Race, Gender, Culture, Nation in Post-Colonial Perspective, HIV/AIDS and Human Rights Activism, Sept. 26, 2006
NU, pharmacy class, Global AIDS and Pharmaceutical Apartheid, July 20, 2006 NU, Introduction to Women’s Studies class, Responding to Women‟s Heightened Vulnerability to HIV/AIDS, January 26, 2006
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NU World AIDS Day Forum: Responding to Women‟s Heightened Vulnerability to HIV/AIDS, December 1, 2005 Harvard Law School Advocates for Human Rights, Activism and the AIDS Pandemic in Africa, September 24, 2005
Discussant, United Against AIDS Summit, Activist Lunch, Harvard, April 23, 2005
AIDS Tank, Trade, Intellectual Property, & Access to Medicines, Harvard University, Feb. 17, 2005 NU World AIDS Day, Forum: Activist Response to the Global AIDS Pandemic and to U.S. Policy Miasma; Panel: Global AIDS Pandemic, December 1, 2004 Why Me? Teach-In, African AIDS Activism, Tuft University, October 24, 2003 University of Massachusetts Medical School (April 3, 2003) Global AIDS, Patents, and Pharmaceutical Apartheid. NU pharmacy class, Global AIDS and Pharmaceutical Apartheid, February 25, 2003, July 22, 2004, July 13, 2005. NUSL, Int’l Trade Law class, Treatment Activism and Access to Medicines, Feb. 7, 2003 NUSL Committee Against Institutional Racism, Global AIDS Pandemic, October 17, 2002.
Cambridge College Workshop – Pharmaceuticals and Health Care Reform,
International Issues in Access to Medicines (March 9, 2002)
Harvard Activist Training: Multinational Corporate Complicity In The Aids Pandemic, On The Impact Of Globalization On The Aids Pandemic, And On Treatment Activism And The Coca-Cola Campaign (October 8, 2002). MIT Multinational Corporate Complicity and the AIDS Pandemic (October 8, 2002).
NULS Committee Against Institutional Racism – Community Forum, Racial
Issues in the South African AIDS Pandemic (January 24, 2001) II. LEGAL EDUCATION-RELATED PUBLICATIONS AND ACTIVITIES COURSE BOOK Peggy Maisel, Lesley Greenbaum, and Brook K. Baker, TEACHERS’ MANUAL: INTRODUCTION TO LAW AND LEGAL SKILLS (Butterworths S. A. 2001)
Published Articles - Refereed
Learning Through Work: An Empirical Study of Legal Internship,
co-authored with Daniel J. Givelber, Jack McDevitt, and Robyn Miliano
45 J. Legal Educ. 1-48 (March 1995)
Learning to Fish, Fishing to Learn: Guided Participation in the Interpersonal
Ecology of Practice, 6 Clinical L. Rev. 1-84 (1999)
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Published Article - Non-Refereed
Beyond MacCrate: The Role of Context, Experience, Theory and Reflection in Ecological
Learning, 36 Ariz. L. Rev. 287-256 (1994).
Transcending Legacies of Literacy and Transforming the Traditional Repertoire:
Critical Discourse Strategies for Practice, 23 William Mitchell L. Rev. 491-563 (1997).
Traditional Issues of Professional Responsibility and a Transformative Ethic of
Client Empowerment for Legal Discourse, 34 New England L. Rev. 809-906 (2000).
Language Acculturation Processes and Resistance to In'doctrine'ation in the Legal Skills Curriculum and Beyond: A Commentary on Mertz's Critical Anthropology of the Socratic Doctrinal Classroom, 34 John Marshall L. Rev. 131-61 (2000). Incorporating Diversity and Social Justice Issues in Legal Writing Programs, 9 Perspectives 51-57 (2001).
Brook K. Baker, Practice-Based Learning: Emphasizing Practice and Offering Critical Perspectives on the Dangers of “Co-op”tation, 56 N.Y.L.S. L. Rev. 401-439 (2011-12)
Book chapters
Back to the Future: Co-op and Northeastern‟s Twice Born Law School, TRADITION AND
INNOVATION: REFLECTIONS ON NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY’S FIRST CENTURY
(Deborah Rhode ed., 1998)
Dissemination of Research to Reform Practice: Fishing (and Lawyering) to Learn, in Handbook for Research in Cooperative Education and Internships (Patricia L. Linn, Adam Howard and Eric Miller, eds., Lawrence Erlbaum and Associates, 2004).
Submitted Papers
Brook K. Baker, Practice-Based Learning: Emphasizing Practice and Offering Critical Perspectives on the Dangers of “Co-op”tation (draft 2010)
CONFERENCE PAPERS (Unpublished):
“Self”-Directed Learning Post-Modernized: Autonomy, the Search for Self, and Self-Realization in Law Student Work Experience, (Practice Oriented Education: Transforming Higher Education, Northeastern University, April 25, 2001) Practice-Based Learning – Emphasizing Practice, Practice Oriented Education: Transforming Higher Education, Northeastern University, April 27, 2001); Practice Oriented Education Mini-Conference, Northeastern University, May 2, 2000
Pedagogical Justifications and Empirical Investigations of Teaching Assistant Effectiveness, 1-28
(1999 Association of Legal Writing Directors Biennial Conference, New England Law School, July
29, 1999)
Critical Pedagogies for the Classroom and Critical Discourse Strategies for Practice, 1-22 (Legal
Writing Institute, July 18, 1996).
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Learning to Fish, Fishing to Learn: Theory and Data in Support of Cooperative Learning, 1-16
(National Society for Experiential Education, November 9, 1995).
A Theory of Contextualized, Ecological Learning and its Implications in Research, Analysis, and
Writing Programs, 1-41 (Legal Writing Institute, July 28, 1994).
What is Said, What is Meant, What is Understood: Interpretative Communities and Legal
Discourse, 1-12 (Legal Writing Institute, August 1, 1992).
Teaching Values Through Legal Writing, 1-17 (Legal Writing Institute, August 1, 1992).
Conventionalism, Contextualism, and Interpretative Communities: Are These Helpful Theories for
Legal Writing Instructors? 1-10 (Midwest Conf. of the Legal Writing Institute, July 16-17, 1991).
Choices in Feedback on Legal Writing: Reader- Response, Priorities, Reinforcement, and
Directiveness, 1-13 (Midwest Conference of the Legal Writing Institute, July 16-17, 1991).
Diagnosing Legal Writing Problems: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives for Giving Feedback,
1-22 (Legal Writing Institute, July 28, 1990).
Mike Meltsner, Dan Givelber, Jim Rowan & Brook Baker, Training for Competency in Getting and
Giving Supervision, (UCLA-Warwick International Clinical Conference, Winter 1986-87)
CLINICAL TEACHING MATERIALS:
Casterbank v. South End Family Planning Clinic, Inc., wrongful discharge
case (1981).
Heller v. Sherman, a premise liability case co-developed with Mary O'Connell
and Jim Rowan (1981).
Nelson v. Sherman, a contract dispute (1987).
NU Gift Problem, (1987).
United States v. Smith, a complex, federal criminal civil rights case (1987).
Agar v. Housing for Humanity, Inc., a low-income cooperative housing simulation involving
breach of security and multiple public-interest issues (1991).
Singh v. Expanded-Care, Inc., a 200-page whistleblower-protection case simulation, co-
developed with Melinda Drew (2002)
Negotiation Course Materials consisting of five major simulations:
State v. Bins, a criminal plea bargain (modified from work by Michael Meltsner); N.O.W. Conflict
of Interest case, an intra-firm mediation/negotiation (modified from work by Brian Lutch and Gilda
Tuoni); Kosmo v. Slabi, a dispute over a mortgage contingency deposit; Homelessness
Mediation, a four-party public sector mediation (co-authored with James V. Rowan); and Maxwell
v. Garcia Transportation Co. Inc., a wrongful discharge case (co-authored and modified from
materials developed by instructors at Boston College Law School) (1987-1988).
Negotiation Course Materials: Seven simulations relating to the Africa AIDS Pandemic: UNITAID
Patent Pool Negotiation; Regulatory Implementation – Access to Medicines; Competition
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Commission Case; Doha Declaration Negotiations; Mother-to-Child-Transmission negotiation;
US-SACU Free Trade Negotiations; Medicines Patent Pool (2001-2011).
Analytical Skills Workshop Course Materials consisting of 15-20 exercises and other instructional
materials (1987-2011).
Urban Legal Laboratory Course Materials: upper level simulation materials and assignments to
teach planning, mediation, interviewing, counseling, negotiation, pleading, discovery, and trial
practice at Boston College (1986).
Introduction to Lawyering and Professional Responsibility. Co-authorized simulation and
assignments for first-year skills course at Boston College (1986).
New York Department of Social Services Legal Department. Co-authored training materials with
James V. Rowan on homelessness to teach lawyering skills to legal staff (1986).
LEGAL EDUCATION-RELATED CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS
Panel: Organizing and Delivering Clinical Legal Education, Clinical Theory Workshop 25
th
Anniversary Conference, New York Law School, Oct. 1-2, 2010
Presentation: Northeastern University Practice-Oriented Education Retreat, The Promise and Danger of Practice-Based Learning (November 18, 2002). Presentation: Bi-Annual Conference of the Legal Writing Institute, Cross-Cultural Challenges: Teaching LRW in South African - Lessons in International Solidarity, May 30-June 2, 2002. Presentations: New England Legal Writing Consortium,
Diversity Training for Legal Writing, June 15, 2001 Building Relationships Between Students and Teachers That Encourage Receptivity to Feedback, March 23, 2001
Presentation: Northeastern University POE Mini-Conference – Good Practices for Practice-
Oriented Education: Demonstrations and Discussion (November 3, 2000)
Presentation: Languages of Race, Feminism, Philosophy, and Anthropology: Translating
for the Legal Skills Classroom Conference, John Marshall School of Law Teaching Lawyers
the Language of Law: Legal and Anthropological Translations – Response, November 4, 1999.
Panel Presentation: AALS Conference in New Orleans on “New Opportunities in Legal
Exchange” - A Sabbatical In South Africa: Cross-Cultural and Political Perspectives on
Educational Reform (Jan. 10, 1999)
Presentation: Learning From Practice: Developments in Externship Pedagogy Columbus
School of Law, Learning Through Guided Participation in the Interpersonal Ecology of Practice
(Washington D.C., March 6, 1998)
Faculty Colloquia: Northeastern U. School of Law
Dilemmas of Cross-Cultural Lawyering and Teaching: Six Months In South African Clinics, April 8, 1998.
Critical Pedagogies for the Classroom and Critical Discourse Strategies
for Practice, September 28, 1995.
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A Theory of Ecological Learning, January 27, 1994.
Presentations: Legal Writing Institute and Association of Legal Writing Directors
Conferences: See titles of Conference Papers July 1990, July 1991, August 1992, July 1994,
July 1996, July 1999
Presentations: New England Clinical Law Teachers Conferences:
Dealing with Issues of Stereotype Threat in Clinical Practice (December 3, 1999)
Learning Through Guided Participation in the Interpersonal Ecology of Practice” (March
27, 1998) Dilemmas of Cross-Cultural Lawyering and Teaching: Six Months In South African Clinics (Nov. 21, 1997)
Critical Writing Strategies for Clinicians (Feb. 2, 1996)
A Theory of Ecological Learning (March 1995)
Evaluating a Case for Settlement (Feb. 1985)
Presentation: New York Law School - Clinical Theory Workshop:
Learning Through Work: An Empirical Study of Legal Internship (Dec. 6, 1996)
Presentation: Southern New England School of Law, Participant Practical Skills Forum:
Work-Based Pedagogies (Dec. 12, 1996)
Presentations: Northeastern University Asa S. Knowles Office for the Study of Work and
Learning,
Learning to Fish, Fishing to Learn: Theory and Data in Support of Learning on Co-op
(Sept. 24, 1996)
Ethical Dilemmas of Helping Students Face Ethical Dilemmas on Co-op, Part IV (April 9,
1998)
Panel on Political Correctness, New England Cable Network News, April 27, 1992.
Massachusetts Bar Association, Young Lawyers Div., Planning for Negotiations (Nov. 22,
1988)
TEACHING, CONSULTING, COLLOQUIA AND PRESENTATIONS IN SOUTH AFRICA
Development student and instructor course materials Fatima Khan vs. Anil Singh (sexual harassment simulation) – Legal Skills in Context, University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban, S. Africa, April-May 2011 Co-Author, Practical Guide to Writing Research Papers and Dissertation, University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban, S. Africa, May 2011 Co-Lecture LLB Course, Teaching Legal Skills, University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban, S. Africa, Feb.-May 2011 Co-Lecture LLM Course, HIV and the Law, University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban, S. Africa, Feb.-May 2011 Proposal to Teaching and Learning Office, Integrated First and Second Year Skills Program, University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban, S. Africa, March 2011 (funded for over R800,000)
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Consultation, Law Faculty, Student Development Program, and Vice Chancellor, University of Zululand, April 6, 2011 LLM Research Workshop, University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban, S. Africa, February 19, 26 and March 5, 2011 Consultation, Integration of University of Durban-Westville and University of Natal-Durban Clinical Programs, University of KwaZulu Natal, June 13, 2006 Colloquium: Mentoring Junior Faculty to Ensure Academic Success: Challenges and Possibilities, University of Cape Town, June 21, 2006 Presentation: Mentoring Junior Faculty to Ensure Academic Success: Challenges and Possibilities, University of KwaZulu Natal, July 12, 2006
Graduate Student Workshop, Legal Research and Writing, University of KwaZulu-Natal,
Westville Campus (March 27, 2004).
UDW Law Clinic, March-April 2004, August, 2003, April – May 2002, supervision of students re client representation and classroom instruction on HIV/AIDS-related issues (mother-to-child-transmission, post-exposure prophalaxis) University of Natal-Durban, May 2002, Instructing Law Students – Creating A Pedagogical Alliance July 2000 Congress of the Society of Law Teachers of Southern Africa: Intensifying the Writing Skills Curriculum in Law Faculties and Diagnosing Legal Writing Problems.
South African Regional Client Counseling Competition Training student contestants and
judges (February 15-19, 1999)
UND Faculty Colloquium Diagnosing Legal Writing Problems: Theoretical and Practical
Consequences for Giving Feedback (March 1, 1999) including 21-page colloquium paper
Saturday Workshop for Teaching Legal Skills Course: Multi-Culturalism, Running Your Tutorial,
and Feedback on Student Writing UND (Feb. 27, 1999)
Co-Instructor Teaching Legal Skills Course UND (February 21 - March 13, 1999)
Co-Author Course Materials Introduction to Law course and Teaching Legal Skills Course
Lecture: Critical Perspectives on U.S. Legal Education and U.S. Law, Professional Legal
Training Course UDW (March 1999)
UDW Faculty Colloquium - Expanding the Skills Curriculum - First Year and Beyond (March
1999)
UDW Seminar - Lawyering in the Year 2000. This three-day seminar focused on practical skills;
values and ethics, as well as cultural diversity issue in S. African law (May 25-27, 1998)
UDW Faculty Colloquium - Building an Intellectual Community (June 10, 1998)
UDW Faculty Colloquium - Teaching Effectiveness (June 23, 1998)
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Association of University Legal Aid Institutions - KwaZulu Natal Clinicians Meeting (June 2,
1998)
Training Academic Development Program Tutors at UDW (June 10, 1998)
Discussion of Initial Report by the Legal Aid Transformation Team to the Minister of Justice
(June 21, 1998)
Staff Seminar, Creating a More Active, More Critical Pedagogy at Durban-Westville (July 1,
1997)
Staff Seminar, Teaching Law Through Practice-Based Learning, Virtual Realities, and Other
Authentic Ways of Learning, University of Natal, Durban, South Africa (May 9, 1997)
Law Students Council Workshop, American Perspectives on Disciplinary Rules, University of
Durban-Westville, Durban, South Africa (April 13, 1997)
Guest Lecture, Overview of American Systems of Taxation, University of
Durban-Westville, Durban, South Africa, March 3, 1997
Co-Instructor Practical Skills Training and Jurisprudence Courses, University of Durban-
Westville, February-June 1997
Clinical Instructor University of Durban-Westville and University of Natal-Durban, February-June
1997
OTHER ACTIVITIES IN SOUTH AFRICA
Workshop on Masculinity and Schooling, Innovation Centre, University of
Natal, Durban, South Africa, July 5-6, 1997
University of Durban Gender Studies Seminar, Durban, South Africa, March
13, 1997
COSATU KNZ Provincial Gender Conference, Workshop on Gender
Sensitivity and Self-Reliance, Durban, South Africa, February 15, 1997
UMKHOSI KA DR JL (MAFUKUZELA) DUBE (Peace Ceremony in honor of
ANC Founder, Dr. Dube), Ohlange High School, Inanda, South Africa,
February 16, 1997
Regular participation in the University of Durban-Westville’s Women’s Forum
Consultation on University Disability Policy for the University of Durban-Westville
Consultation with the Durban Legal Resource Center on the Nadesan v. KwaZulu Natal
Department of Education
PROFESSIONAL AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE:
University:
Board of Directors, Women’s Studies Program 2004-2006
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Practice Oriented Education Conference Committee 2000-01
Advisory Group 2001-03
ACE Interest Group in Experiential Learning 1996-98
Ad hoc University Committee, Office of the Ombudsperson, Hate Crimes 1993
Department of Justice:
Community Advocacy Education: Building Safe and Healthy Neighborhoods
(Dec. 4, 2000)
Law School:
Law, Culture, and Difference
Ad Hoc Task Force: Law, Culture, and Difference 1991.
Faculty Facilitator for Small-Group Discussions (1991-1998).
Supervision of LCD groups, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
Panel Presentations - "Juror-Decision-Making," Feb. 18, 1992; "Dealing with Difference:
Dilemmas in Immigration - Visions of Assimilation vs. Images of Cultural Pluralism,"
November 2, 1995. "Cognitive Structure of Prejudice and Master-Stories of Race and
Gender in Sexual Harassment," Sept. 1, 1994.
Co-operative Legal Education Program
Panel Presentation, "Supervision-on-the-Job," 1990-1992.
Presentation, "Professional Values, Lawyering Roles, and Legal Culture," 1990-
1993.
Co-op Residency Program, 1990-1992, 1999.
Committees
Law, Culture, and Difference Committee, 1992-93, 1994-95
Curriculum Committee, 1988-1992, 1994-97, 2001, 2004
Committee Against Institutional Racism, 1989-1993, Chair, 1997-98, 1999-2003
Library Committee, 1991-1992
Co-op Committee, 1989-1991
Public Interest Requirement Committee, 1994-1997
Ad Hoc Committee on Merit Pay Policy, 1998-2000
Chair 2001
Ad Hoc Committee on Academic Support, 1987- 2003
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Committee on Teaching Effective, Chair 1997-99
Task Force on Bar Pass Rate 2000-03
Tenure and Promotion Committee 2000-01, 2008-2009 (Chair), 2009-2010
Upper-Level Rigorous Writing Requirement Committee 2003, 2004-07, 2009-2010 (Chair)
Ad hoc Committee on First Year Research and Writing 2005
Ad hoc Committee on Experiential Learning 2005
Student Organizations
Faculty Advisor, Moot Court Society, 1990-1992
Faculty Advisor, Latino/a Law Students Association, 1990-1992
Faculty Advisor, Disability Law Caucus, 1994-96
Faculty Advisor, NUSL Student Global AIDS Campaign, 2002-2009
COMMUNITY SERVICE:
Consultation and Training - Office for Civil Rights, U.S. Dept. of Education: Interest-Based
Negotiation Theory and Practice (1995, 1998)
Codman Square Neighborhood Council, Housing Comm. 1991-1992
Dorchester Central America Action Committee, 1988-1994
Host multiple visitors from S. Africa, 1997-2006 HIV/AIDS:
Boston Global Action Network – Africa AIDS Project 2000-02
Health GAP (Global Access Project) Policy Analyst 2001-2009, Chairperson 2007-present
Health Workforce Advocacy Initiative, Steering Committee 2007-present
Northern NGO Delegation to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria:
Consultant Group 2007-present
NGO Representative to UNITAID, Consultant Group 2009-present
Reference Group, Global Health Workforce Alliance, 2009-2011
MEMBERSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
American Bar Association, 1991-2009
Legal Writing Institute, 1988-2005
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AALS Clinical Law Section, 1988-2005
Clinical Legal Education Association, 1991-2005
Northeast Clinical Law Teachers, 1984-2009
Coordinator of Discussion Group, 1990-1992
Faculty Discussion Group - Critical Race Theory 1994-2000
Faculty Discussion Group - Addressing Issues of Difference in Law Teaching 1995-1996.
Board of Directors, Massachusetts Lawyers Guild, 1998-2000
HONORS AND APPOINTMENTS
Faculty Appreciation Award Dec. 2000.
Public Policy Distinguished Professor 1998-99
Honorary Research Fellow: Faculty of Law, University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban, South Africa,
Nov. 2009 – Oct. 2012
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