Janewa OseiTutu
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law
- oseitutu@pitt.edu
Professor J. OseiTutu is visiting at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law for the 2009-10 academic year. She holds a J.D. from Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada, where she won the Fasken Campbell Godfrey Prize in Torts and the Reuben Wells Leonard Prize in Legal Issues in Canada-U.S. Trade. Professor OseiTutu also holds an LL.M. (with distinction) in International and Comparative Law from McGill University, with a focus on Intellectual Property and International Trade.
She has practiced with one of the leading law firms in Canada, served as an intellectual property attorney with the Department of Justice Canada, and recently served as an associate legal officer and law clerk with the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Tanzania.
Currently Teaching
- International Intellectual Property (Fall 2009)
- International Trade Law (Spring 2010)
Selected Publications
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Current Research Project The World Trade Organization TRIPS Agreement: implications for developing countries.
Short Publications
J. Janewa OseiTutu, “Intellectual property: a menace to the public domain?” Oxford Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice (March 2009) Vol. 4, No. 3 pp. 220-221; book review of Intellectual Property: The Many Faces of Public Domain by Charlotte Waelde and Hector MacQueen (eds).
J. Janewa OseiTutu, “Prosecutor v. Brima, Kamara and Kanu: First Judgment from the Appeals Chamber of the Special Court for Sierra Leone,” 12 American Society of International Law Insights 10, available online at the ASIL website (May 2008) (with C. Jalloh).