One of the members of the audience at the Arab-British Chamber of Commerce seminar on combating IP crime on the 12 Dec 2013 was Dr. Elvira DomÃnguez-Redondo of Middlesex University. Dr. Dominquez-Redondo invited me to give a talk on IP to some of her LLM and LLB students on 3 Feb 2014 an you will find a report of my talk and subsequent discussions with the Dean of the Law School in "Working With Middlesex" 7 Feb 2014 London IP.
In addition to its main campus in London Middlesex University has campuses in Dubai, Malta and Mauritius. The Dubai campus is located in the Dubai Knowledge Village which is "the world’s only free zone area dedicated to human resource management and learning excellence." The campus offers a variety of courses for undergraduates and graduate students and a variety of services for local businesses through the Centre for Innovation in Management.
Although those courses do not yet include law there may still be ways in which we can help. Anything that we may accomplish in Hendon could be replicated at the other Middlesex University campuses. The Dubai International Financial Centre has its own English speaking common law legal system and the recent extension of the jurisdiction of the DIFC courts should facilitate licensing and other knowledge and technology transfer transactions (see "DIFC Courts Spread Their Wings" 7 Dec 2011 and "DIFC Courts: Choice of Jurisdiction Clauses" 28 Dec 2012).
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