Dr. El Said, Mohammed

Lecturer in International Trade Law

Lancashire Law School

Harris Building 251

+44 (0)1772 895670

mel-said@uclan.ac.uk

Dr Mohammed El Said joined the Lancashire Law School as a Lecturer in International Trade Law.

LLm, PhD

Dr El Said is a qualified solicitor under the Jordanian Bar Association. He also worked as a consultant with leading media organizations in the Middle East and for other international organizations including the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the World Health Organization (WHO). Dr El Said has several books and publications in the ar

Membership of professional and learned bodies

The Jordanian Bar Association- qualified since 2001, Jordan.

- Member of INSouth: an Intellectual Network for the South. http://www.insouth.org

- Consultant/advisor with Health Action International (HAI), Eastern Mediterranean Region

- Board member and advisor with Health Innovation with Practice (HIP).

- Editor/reviewer:

- The Liverpool Law Review- United Kingdom

- The Journal of International Trade Law and Policy (JITLP)

- The Journal of World Intellectual Property (JWIP)

- Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing

- Studies in Ethics, Law, and Technology

- Longman Law, Pearson Education (Publishers)

- Field Editor, The Edwin Mellen Press

- Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal (EMHJ). WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean

Research

Various activities related to IP and development, IP and public health and IP and the Arab World.   

Research Projects

Dr El Said is currently working on a number of projects including a study with the United Nations Development Fund (UNDP) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) on intellectual property protection in the Arab World and access to drugs and medicines in the region. Dr El Said has just finished his research for his book to be published in 2008 on the protection of intellectual property rights in the Arab World.

He has just completed a number of research studies for the UNDP and WHO related to intellectual property protection and access to access drugs and medicines in Jordan, Qatar, and Kuwait.

Contributing a background paper on intellectual property laws in the Arab World and the state of knowledge prepared for the Arab Knowledge Report 2008 published by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation. (forthcoming November 2008).

Publications

Published Books

The Development of Intellectual Property Protection in the Arab World, The Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston: 332 pages, 2008. ISBN10:  0-7734-5045-9   ISBN13:  978-0-7734-5045-5. Link available at  http://www.mellenpress.com/mellenpress.cfm?bookid=7465&pc=9

IPRs in Jordan, the International Encyclopedia of Laws, Intellectual Property, Kluwer Law International BV, the Netherlands, October 2009. ISBN 978-90-654-4887-3.

Published Policy Guide

(2010). The Policy guide titled ‘Public Health Related TRIPS-Plus Provisions in Bilateral Trade Agreements: A Policy Guide for Negotiations and Implementers in the Eastern Mediterranean Region’ is the first of comprehensive guide of its type dedicated to the Arab World. The policy guide provides a historical background about the global trading regime and the participation of Arab and developing countries in that regime. The guide also focuses on bilateral free trade and association agreements concluded between the developed countries and other Arab states with special attention to the health-related IPRs provisions concluded under these agreements. More importantly, the guide provides policy options and recommend policies to countries in the region in order to improve their negotiation position and enable them to apply their national intellectual property regimes from a development-oriented manner.

The Policy Guide is published by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD), 2010. 978-92-9021-666-7; 978-92-9021-753-4 (online). It is available at the following link:
http://www.emro.who.int/publications/Book_Details.asp?ID=1081

Publications in Peer Reviewed International Journals

(2010). ''The Implementation Paradox: Intellectual Property Regulation in the Arab World''. Journal of International Trade Law and Policy (JITLP), Vol 9, Issue 3, pp 221-235, (2010) . 

(2007). ‘‘TRIPS-Plus Implications for Access to Medicines in Developing Countries: Lessons from Jordan-US FTA’’. Journal of World Intellectual Property (JWIP), Vol 10, Issue 6, pp 438-475, (2007). Co-authored with Hamed El Said.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1747-1796.2007.00330.x/abstract

(2007). Guest editor for a special issue of the Liverpool Law Review on TRIPS-Plus World; issue date, April 2007. (Providing an Editorial and Article; the issue also contains special contributions by Professors Peter Drahos, Susan Sell, Raj Bhala and Andrew Griffiths).

(2007). "The European TRIPS-Plus Model and the Arab World: From Cooperation to Association – A New Era in The Global IPRs Regulation".  Liverpool Law Review (LLR), Vol 28, Issue 1, pp 143-174, (2007).

(2007). “Surpassing Checks, Overriding Balances and Diminishing Flexibilities: FTA-IPRs Plus Bilateral Trade Agreements – From Jordan To Oman”. Journal of World Investment and Trade (JWIT), Vol 8, Issue 2, pp 243-268, (2007).

(2006). “The Evolution of the Jordanian TRIPS-Plus Model: Multilateralism Vs Bilateralism and the Implications for the Jordanian IPRs Regime”. International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law (IIC), Vol 37, Issue 5, pp 501-519, (2006). 

(2005). “TRIPS, Bilateralism, Multilateralism & Implications for Developing Countries: Jordan’s Drug Sector”. Manchester Journal for International Economic Law (MJIEL), Vol 2, Issue 1, pp 59-80, (2005).  Co-author with Hamed El-Said.

(2005). “The Road from TRIPS-Minus to TRIPS to TRIPS-Plus: Implications of IPRs for the Arab World”. Journal of World Intellectual Property (JWIP), Vol 8, Issue 1, pp 53-65, (2005). This article was re-produced by the permission of the publisher and the author at http://www.bilaterals.org/, 1 May 2005.

Teaching

Postgraduate teaching: LLM internationaltrade law, intellectual property, advancned legal research methodology. 

PhD supervision in the area of international trade and intellectual property.

External

Conference Papers, Workshops, and Proceedings

November (2009). Resource person and key speaker, seminar organized by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Open Society Institute (OSI) on `ENSURING ACCESS TO MEDICINES IN KAZAKHSTAN'. Presentation titled ''The Impact of TRIPS-Plus Provisions on Public Health and Access to Medicines''. (18-21) November 2009, Almaty, Kazakhstan.

November (2009). Guest speaker, seminar organized by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the AFRICAN-ARAB SEMINAR ON LIMITATIONS AND EXCEPTIONS: Addressing the Needs of Affected Constituencies, presentation titled `Dissemination and Use of Copyrighted Works for Education and Research', Cairo, Egypt, 2 November, 2009. http://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/2009/cr_cai_09/program.html

September (2009). Guest speaker, workshop organized by Bibliotheca Alexandria on Intellectual Property Rights and Development, presentation titled `the Challenges Facing the Arab Intellectual Property Protection Regimes', (27-28) September 2009. Alexandria, Egypt. For more see http://www.bibalex.org/a2k/attachments/Newsletters/August09En_monav.pdf.

May (2009). Participant in Qatar Law Forum: the Rule of Law. Organized in Doha in the period 29-31 May, 2009. Doha, the State of Qatar.
 
April (2009). Guest speaker, the League of Arab Nations, the Third Annual Regional Conference on Intellectual Property: The Challenges facing Arab Counties in the Area of Intellectual Property Protection. (26-28) April 2009. The League of Arab Nations, Cairo, Egypt.
April (2009). Resource person and speaker, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and World Health Organization (WHO) Training Session for Arab States Patent Offices, `Examining Pharmaceutical Patents from a Public Health Perspective', presentation on the impact of FTAs on public health and access to medicines. (14-15) April 2009, Cairo, Egypt.

February (2008). Paper presented with Dr Hamid El Said titled ‘TRIPS-Plus Implications for Access to Medicines in Developing Countries: Lessons fro Jordan-United States Free Trade Agreement’ at the ‘International Conference on Globalization, Economic Reforms, Aid and Democracy in the Arab World’ organized by the Arab Thought Forum, (3-4) February 2008, Amman Jordan. 

January (2008). Participant in the First International Conference of Arbitration, organized by the Qatar International Centre of Arbitration, (21-23) January 2008, Doha, State of Qatar.

December (2006). Invited as a key speaker to the Regional Meeting on Free Trade Agreements organized by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Third World Network (TWN) and Arab NGO Network for Development. Paper on the implications of TRIPS-Plus agreements on the Arab World, Cairo, Egypt.

September (2006). Presented a paper titled ‘The European TRIPS-Plus Model: From Co-operation to Association - The Implications of Strengthened IPR's Protection for the Arab World’, at the Society of Legal Scholars, Legal History Conference, Keele University, United Kingdom.

November (2004). Presented a paper titled ‘TRIPS, Bilateralism, Multilateralism and Developing Countries: The Case of Jordan’s Pharmaceuticals’, at a conference organized by Kuwait University, (23-24) November, 2004, Kuwait City, State of Kuwait.

November (2004). Presented a paper titled ‘The Road from TRIPS-Minus to TRIPS to TRIPS-Plus: Implications of IPRs for the Developing Countries’, at a conference organized by Kuwait University, (23-24) November, 2004, Kuwait City, State of Kuwait.

awards:

Emerald Literati Outstanding Reviewer Award for the Journal of International Trade Law and Policy. Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence, 2009.