The North Carolina Journal of International Law is looking forward to hosting our annual Symposium in the spring of 2027.
Information about our 2026 Symposium, which took place in March, can be found below.
Speaker Information
Rafael Dix Carneiro is a Full Professor of Economics at Duke University. He studies how international trade impacts labor markets and development. Much of his work examines how workers, firms, and regions adjust to trade shocks. He is also interested in labor market informality, migration, firms’ responses to exchange rate fluctuations, and the links between economic conditions and crime.
Doni Bloomfield is an Associate Professor of Law at Fordham Law School. He teaches and writes in the areas of intellectual property, biosecurity, antitrust, national security law, torts, and health law. His research examines the role the law plays in encouraging technological progress while reducing risk, both to health and economic well-being. His recent scholarship has analyzed the application of export controls to intellectual property, the relationship between market competition and supply resilience, and the intersection of FDA and patent law.
Peter K. Yu is University Distinguished Professor, Regents Professor of Law and Communication, and Director of the Center for Law and Intellectual Property at Texas A&M University. Born and raised in Hong Kong, he held the Kern Family Chair in Intellectual Property Law at Drake University and was Wenlan Scholar Chair Professor at Zhongnan University of Economics and Law in Wuhan, China. He served as a visiting professor of law at Bocconi University, Hanken School of Economics, Hokkaido University, Tel Aviv University, the University of Haifa, the University of Helsinki, the University of Hong Kong, and the University of Strasbourg. He is the Vice-President of the American Branch of the International Law Association and has served as the general editor of The WIPO Journal published by the World Intellectual Property Organization. He sits on the Scientific Advisory Board of Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Germany.
John M. Conley is William Rand Kenan, Jr. Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina. His teaching and research interests law and technology, intellectual property, and scientific evidence. He has written numerous books, articles, and chapters on these topics as well as law and language, professional and institutional culture, and corporate behavior. His most recent research involves the study of the emerging practice of genomic medicine.
Sapna Kumar joined the Law School faculty in Fall 2023 as the Henry J. Fletcher Professor of Law. Her scholarship focuses on international law and administrative law issues relating to patent rights. Her most recent research examines how patent rights can hinder access to medicine during public health emergencies. Her article Contractual Solutions to Overcome Drug Scarcity During Pandemics and Epidemics (with Ana Santos Rutschman) was published in Nature Biotechnology and her follow-up book chapter Planning for Pandemic and Epidemic-Related Drug Scarcity (with Ana Santos Rutschman), will be published in Intellectual Property, COVID-19, and the Next Pandemic: Diagnosing Problems, Developing Cures (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press).