Join Professor David Winickoff, a professor in UC Berkeley's College of Natural Resources, co-director of the Berkeley Science, Technology and Society Center, and a Greenwall Faculty Scholar in Bioethics, for a discussion on Private Assets, Public Mission: The Moral Landscape of University Technology Transfer. This lecture is the fourth and final installment of The UC Hastings Lecture Series on Bioethics, sponsored by The Lawrence M. Nagin '65 Faculty Enrichment Fund.

Since the passage of the Bayh-Dole Act in 1980, universities have had the right to own and license, with few restrictions, intellectual property arising from federally funded research. Since then, universities have become not only the locus of knowledge creation, but also agents of its commercialization. Public controversies concerning the management of academic intellectual property have raised serious questions about university commitments to research, teaching and public service. This talk will canvass some of these IP controversies and interpret their implications for the public mission of the modern research university.

The event is open to the public and free to attend. Sponsored by the Lawrence M. Nagin '65 Faculty Enrichment Fund and co-sponsored by the UCSF Center for Health and Community and the UCSF/UC Hastings Consortium on Law, Science, and Health Policy.

This talk is part of The UC Hastings Lecture Series on Bioethics, sponsored by The Lawrence M. Nagin '65 Faculty Enrichment Fund. The four-part series features nationally acclaimed experts who will discuss cutting-edge issues in bioethics, their legal significance, and their impact on various communities. 

Questions? Contact Professor Osagie Obasogie at obasogie@uchastings.edu.