Faculty Profiles
Cameron Hutchison, Assistant Professor, B.A. (Hons.) (McMaster University), LL.B. (Osgoode Hall Law School), LL.M. with distinction (University of Nottingham) S.J.D. (University of Toronto)
Phone: (780) 492-5075
Dr. Cameron Hutchison is an assistant professor at the University of Alberta, Faculty of Law. He obtained his LL.B. from Osgoode Hall (Canada), LL.M. with distinction from University of Nottingham (UK) and his SJD from the University of Toronto (Canada). Professor Hutchison has wide ranging teaching and research interests which, over the past five years, has focused on international and Canadian intellectual property law. Many of his publications can be downloaded at ssrn.com, and include papers related to access to essential medicines, North-South technology transfer and dissemination particularly in connection with climate change technologies, the extra-territorial reach of US patent law particularly in connection with the BlackBerry patent litigation, as well as statutory interpretation and Canadian intellectual property law. Professor Hutchison’s work on technology transfer earned him an invitation by the United Nations to present his research to the Beijing High Level Conference on Technology Transfer in anticipation of the 2009 Copenhagen climate change conference. He is currently preparing a paper on judicial interpretation of law as it relates to the internet with a particular emphasis on copyright law. This paper is the first step in a proposed comprehensive empirical analysis of the interpretation of law and the internet in Canadian jurisprudence to be completed over the next couple of years. Professor Hutchison currently teaches the following courses: intellectual property, musicians and the law (advanced copyright), statutory interpretation, internet law, and conflict of laws.
