Mary Wong

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Mary W.S. Wong is a GNSO Councillor at ICANN and Professor of Law at University of New Hampshire School of Law (formerly Franklin Pierce Law Center).She is the current Chair of the Intellectual Property Graduate Programs at the University of New Hampshire School of Law.

Professor Wong is currently an Associate Fellow of the IP Academy of Singapore.

Career History

Law

Prior to joining University of New Hampshire, she was an associate professor of law at Singapore Management University. From 1998 to 2003, Prof. Wong worked as Special Counsel at the Morrison & Foerster LLP. At M&F, she counselled clients from all over the world in a wide range of technology transactions, and provided advice on international and comparative legal developments relating to the Internet, privacy and e-Commerce. She has also been a Senior Lecturer at the National University of Singapore. Prof. Wong has been the chair of International Copyright committee of the American Bar Association’s (ABA) Intellectual Property Law Section and a member of the inaugural Editorial Board for “Landslide", the Section’s flagship publication. She has also served on the ABA's Copyright Reform Task Force.

Previously, she has been a member of the New York New Media Association's Programs Committee, the Singapore Government's e-Commerce Consultative Committee, and the Singapore Academy of Law's Membership and Social Committee. Prof. Wong was the co-founder of Project Law Help.

ICANN

Prof. Wong was elected as the GNSO Council for ICANN in 2009, representing ICANN’s Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group in its main policy development body.

Meetings and Conferences

Professor Wong is also a frequent speaker at conferences in the United States, Europe and Asia. She attended ICANN Singapore. In 2008, she represented Pierce Law at ICANN Cairo.

Research

Prof. Wong's current research is focused on the intersection of copyright and human rights, and comparative copyright issues related to user-generated content.

Publications

She wrote a Chapter in the book Global anti-terrorism law and policy.

Education

Prof. Wong holds an LLM from the University of Cambridge and an LLB from National University of Singapore.

External Links

• 1st Annual IP Cafe: Inaugural Speech by Mary Wong
• Talk - Mary Wong - The IT Standards Battle and Why We Are the Spoils of War
• Professor Mary Wong - Internet and Society 2007

Generic Names Supporting Organization. Develops and recommends to the Board substantive policies relating to generic top-level domains and other responsibilities set forth in the Bylaws (ICANN Bylaws).