Steven D. Jamar
Professor Jamar joined the Howard University School of Law faculty in 1990 as Director of the Legal Reasoning, Research, & Writing Program, a position he held from 1990 to 2002. He has taught a variety of other courses at HUSL and elsewhere, including International Law of Human Rights, IP in International Business Transactions, International Moot Court Team, LRRW I & II, Drafting, Contracts, UCC, ADR, Computer Law, Civil Litigation Clinic, and Introduction to Intellectual Property.
Prof. Jamar is the Associate Director of the Howard Intellectual Property Program (HIPP). HIPP addresses the relationship between intellectual property and social justice and works to improve the opportunities for HUSL students to enter IP practice. HIPP performs its mission in several ways, including supporting relevant scholarship, involving HUSL students in IP courses and issues, designing the IP curriculum, sponsoring student internships, CLE instruction in IP to practicing attorneys, and advocacy on IP issues with a significant social justice component.
Professor Jamar has made numerous professional presentations and has published articles in international human rights and IP. Another significant project to which Prof. Jamar contributed was the Howard University commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education. Prof. Jamar was a member of the Brown@50 Planning Committee and is the webmaster and lead author for the content on the Brown@50website: http://www.brownat50.org.
Prof. Jamar's scholarly work is wide-ranging. His recent work has concentrated on various aspects of social justice and intellectual property, including IP's relationship to international human rights; copyright in the social networking context; the relationships among IP, social justice, entrepreneurship, and economic empowerment; and the importance of a social justice underpinning for an IP Institute. Prior work includes presenting a paper on the international human right of freedom of religion at an Oxford Round Table Conference at Oxford University in 2002, as well as publishing articles and making presentations in comparative law, legal rhetoric, ADR, Brown v. Board of Education, and international human rights. Many of his works are available for download from his SSRN author's page at SSRN Author Page: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_devAbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=812426.
Professor Jamar also consulted with the Law Library of Congress on its GLIN GLIN (Global Legal Information Network): https://www.glinf.org.project, where he was one of the authors of an early version of an XML DTD for GLIN. At the 2003 GLIN Annual Meeting of member countries from around the world, he moderated a panel on the right of access to legal information.
In the late 1990s, he consulted with NASA and the Law Library of Congress on the ELIS (Environmental Legal Information System) project. The ELIS investigators explored the use of computer-related technology and the Internet to link environmentally-related data, including both GIS information and remote sensing data (such as satellite-generated images), to environmental treaties, laws, and regulations. This was done to make information more accessible to environmental policymakers, environmental planners, and environmental law enforcement offices worldwide.
