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	Bita Amani is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, Queen’s University in Kingston where she has been teaching trade-marks and unfair competition, and tort law, since 2002. Prior to that she was co-director of and lecturer for International Aspects of Intellectual Property Law, Osgoode Hall Law School PDP, Part-Time LL.M. Professor Amani is a fellow of the Centre for Innovation Law and Policy and former doctoral fellow of theSocial Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She has presented seminars on patenting life as a visiting research fellow at the Brocher Foundation in Geneva (summer 2008), a visiting research fellow at the Oxford Centre for Intellectual Property Research, and the Centre for International Governance at Leed’s University where she is expanding her research into the European and comparative perspective on biopatenting law and policy.Professor Amani has written and published in the fields of copyright, trademarks, patents, indigenous rights, IP governance and regulatory diversity, and international law. She has a forthcoming book, “Patenting Life in International Law and State Agency: Merchants and Missionaries” to be published by Asghate Publishing in its Globalization and the Law Series (2008). Dr. Amani has served as policy consultant to the Ontario Advisory Committee on Predictive Genetic Technologies, to the Ministry of the Attorney General as editor and annotations editor of laws and regulations for the E-Laws Project, and as policy co-consultant to the Department of Justice and Status of Women Canada on recognizing foreign polygamous marriages with a recent published report. Dr. Amani also serves as legal expert for various media, including CBC Radio’s IDEAS programme; she was called to the Bar of Ontario in 2000.

	Shamnad Basheer is the Ministry of HRD Professor in IP Law at the National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS) in India. Till recently, he had been the Frank H Marks Visiting Associate Professor of Intellectual Property Law at the George Washington University law school. He is also the founder of SpicyIP, a leading blog dedicated to analyzing IP and innovation policy news and cases from India. He graduated from India’s premier law school, the National law school of India University, Bangalore. He then worked with a leading IP law firm in india, Anand and Anand, doing both contentious and non contentious IP matters. He went on to complete the BCL (as a Shell Centenary scholar) with distinction at the University of Oxford, where he is currently reading for the DPhil (PhD) as a Wellcome Trust scholar. His specific interests are patents and innovation policy for developing countries, regulation/protection of traditional medicines and international trade issues. He has published papers in leading technology journals on the above themes; recently, his paper on the Novartis-Glivec patent case in India won the best prize in a competition held by ATRIP, an international association of IP scholars. In the past, he has been an invited research fellow at the Institute of Intellectual Property (IIP), Tokyo, an International Bar Association (IBA) scholar and an Inter Pacific Bar Association (IPBA) scholar.

	Kathy Bowrey was appointed as a Professor to the Faculty of Law, UNSW in 2007. Her publications primarily relate to the cultural aspects of intellectual property and information technology regulation, reflecting a broad range of interests pertaining to socio-legal history, media and cultural studies, and legal theory. Her book, Law and Internet Cultures (Cambridge University Press, 2005) raises the profile of socio-political questions about the global technology and information market, assessing the diffuse ways that US practice, policy and law dominates, and a consideration of how influence is negotiated and resisted locally. Her doctoral research titled Don’t Fence Me In: The Many Histories of Copyright (1994), was an interdisciplinary study of the development of copyright from medieval to postmodern times. Current research projects include a critique of copyright’s “public” side, indigenous cultural rights and a consideration of the relevance of copyright’s categories and exceptions in global media markets.

	Graham Dutfield is Professor of International Governance at the University of Leeds. He has a DPhil from the University of Oxford. He was formerly Herchel Smith Senior Research Fellow in Intellectual Property Law at Queen Mary, University of London, and Academic Director of the UNCTAD-ICTSD Capacity-building Project on Intellectual Property Rights and Development, based in Geneva. From 2002-8 he was Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development. He remains a Senior Member of the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre at St Peter’s College, University of Oxford. Prof. Dutfield is also a member of the IPBio Network.His books include Global Intellectual Property Law (2008, with U. Suthersanen), Intellectual Property, Biogenetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge (2004), and Beyond Intellectual Property: Towards Traditional Resource Rights for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (1996, with D. Posey). His second edition of Intellectual Property Rights and the Life Science Industries, now subtitled Past, Present and Future, will come out in Spring 2009. His recent and current scholarly interests include law and politics of intellectual property especially in relation to the life sciences; innovation and creativity in law, history, economics and anthropology; and intellectual property, health, genetic resources, traditional knowledge and folklore.

	Dev Gangjee lectures at the London School of Economics, with a primary research interest in Intellectual Property (IP). He is a graduate of the National Law School of India (BA, LLB) and the University of Oxford (BCL, DPhil), where he was a Rhodes Scholar. Dev’s present research interests focus on laws governing signs and labels, such as Trademarks, Geographical Indications and Domain Names. He’s presented scholarship on Geographical Indications in Japan, the UK, US, China and India and is writing a monograph on the subject. Additional research interests include the political economy of IP, the protection of traditional knowledge, linguistic theory and legal history. Alongside his affiliation with Osgoode Hall, he is also an Associate of the Oxford IP Research Centre. As an expert he has advised both governments and law firms in the area of trademark law.

	Greg Hagen is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Calgary. He is called to the Bar of British Columbia and has practiced law at two national law firms. Prior to entering the field of law, Professor Hagen earned his Ph.D. in the philosophy of science at the University of Western Ontario. His research focuses on intellectual property law and the regulation and commercialization of technology. He is especially interested in international and philosophical perspectives on these topics.

	Abraham Hollander is Professor of Economics at the University of Montreal. He obtained his PhD from the University of Minnesota. His fields of specialization are industrial economics, competition and trade policy and the economics of copyright. He has published scientific articles in these fields and is the co-author of a graduate textbook in international trade. Dr. Hollander has consulted widely for governments, international organizations and the private sector. He has held a position with the World Bank and was T.D. Mac Donald Chair at the Bureau of Competition Policy in 1994-1995.

	David Lametti is the Associate Dean (Academic) and Associate Professor of Law, McGill University as well as a co-founder and member of the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy at McGill. He teaches and writes in the areas of Civil and Common law property, intellectual property and legal theory. He obtained a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from the University of Toronto in 1985, and received his first Common and Civil law degrees from McGill in 1989. He received an LL.M. from the Yale Law School in 1991, and a doctorate in law at Oxford University; his thesis was entitled “Ethical Aspects of the Theory and Practice of Private Property”. Professor Lametti was a clerk to Justice Peter Cory of the Supreme Court of Canada in 1989-90. He was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1996 and the Bar of Quebec in 1998, and is a domain name arbiter for WIPO and ResolutionsCanada (CIRA). Professor Lametti currently holds an SSHRC research grant entitled “Copyright’s Cross-Currents” which looks at the changes that copyright discourse is currently undergoing. He is also the Co-ordinator of the Improvisation, Law and Justice Sub-Group of the SSHRC-funded Major Collaborative Research Initiative entitled Improvisation, Community and Social Practice, an international team studying improvisation in its many settings.

	Jacqueline Lipton is the Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research at Case Western Reserve University School of Law. She is also the Co-Director of the Center for Law, Technology, and the Arts, and Associate Director of the Frederick K Cox International Law Center. She previously held faculty positions at Monash Law School (Australia) and the University of Nottingham School of Law (UK). Her research and teaching focuses on commercial law, cyberlaw, and intellectual property law with a comparative/international focus.She has authored numerous law review articles in these areas, including recent publications in the Northwestern University Law Review, the Iowa Law Review, the UC Davis Law Review, the Boston College Law Review, Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, the Berkeley Technology Law Journal, the Washington and Lee Law Review, the Washington University Law Review, the Hastings Law Journal, the Wake Forest Law Review, the Florida Law Review, and the Cardozo Law Review (de novo inaugural online supplement). She is the co-author of the second and third editions of Cyberspace Law: Cases and Materials (Aspen, 2006 & 2010) with Professor Raymond Shih Ray Ku. She also authored Security Over Intangible Property (Thomson, 2000), the first text devoted solely to the issue of securitization of intangible property, including intellectual property. She is currently completing a text on Internet domain name governance issues with particular focus on the balance between trademark interests and free speech for the Edward Elgar International Intellectual Property series. Prior to her academic work, Professor Lipton held positions in several leading Australian commercial law firms, as well as serving as inhouse counsel for a major Australian bank. In the spring of 2010, Professor Lipton will be a visiting professor at the University of Florida Levin College of Law, and Acting Director of its International Center for Automated Information Research (ICAIR).

	Fiona Macmillan is Professor of Law at Birkbeck, University of London. Previously, she has held academic positions at the University of New South Wales, the University of Leicester, and the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London. Immediately prior to her appointment in the School of Law at Birkbeck in 2000, Fiona Macmillan was Associate Professor of Law and Copyright Director of the Asia Pacific Intellectual Property Institute at Murdoch University in Western Australia.Her research has focussed on the areas of corporate regulation and intellectual property law. She has a particular interest in the ways in which business enterprises use intellectual property rights as a basis for entrenching power. Recently, her work has addressed the legitimacy and use of corporate power internationally through a consideration of the role and functions of the World Trade Organisation.

	Michael J. Meurer is the Michaels Faculty Scholar and Professor of Law at Boston University. His research and teaching concerns patent law, law and economics, antitrust law, copyright law, contract law and regulation. Before joining BU Law he was an economics professor at Duke University and later a law professor at the University at Buffalo. He also taught short courses in American intellectual property law at the law faculties of the University of Victoria and the National University of Singapore. As an undergraduate he majored in economics, and interdisciplinary science at MIT. He has a Ph.D in economics and a J.D. from the University of Minnesota. Professor Meurer has received numerous grants and fellowships, including, the David Saul Smith Award from BU Law, a grant from the Kauffman Foundation, two grants from the Pew Charitable Trust, a Ford Foundation grant, an Olin Faculty Fellowship at Yale Law School and a postdoctoral fellowship at AT&T Bell Labs. Professor Meurer served as the director of the BU Law Institute for Business, Law & Technology, he is on the editorial advisory board of the Journal of Public Policy and Marketing, he has served on NIH and NSF grant panels, and he has organized several economics and law conferences.

	Catherine W Ng hails from Osgoode Hall Law School (LLM). She then completed her DPhil on intellectual property law at the University of Oxford (UK) and her research fellowship at the Institut de hautes études internationales (now L’Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement, Switzerland). She currently teaches intellectual property law and coordinates the Intellectual Property LLM Programme at the School of Law, University of Aberdeen (UK). In November, she will also assume Directorship of the Research Student Training Programme at the School. She is a research associate at the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre, a member of the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada, the International Trademarks Association, and a founding member of the International Cultural History Society. Her wide-ranging works on intellectual property law have been published both in Canada and in the UK. Her research and teaching interests remain in intellectual property and related laws.

	Ng-Loy Wee Loon is the Director of the LL.M (Intellectual Property and Technology) program at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore, and a member of the Board of Governors of the Singapore IP Academy. She has also served on the Singapore Government Parliamentary Committee (for Law and Home Affairs), as well as on the Board of Directors of the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore. She is the author of the book Law of Intellectual Property of Singapore (Sweet & Maxwell, 2008). She has also published in various international journals.

	Sean O’Connor is a Professor at the University of Washington School of Law and Chair of the Law, Technology & Arts Group. Professor O’Connor specializes in intellectual property and business law involving biotechnology, cyberspace/information technology, and new media/digital arts. He holds a J.D. from Stanford Law School, M.A. (Philosophy) from Arizona State University, and B.A. (History) from University of Massachusetts, Boston. He is Of Counsel to Seed IP Law Group. Professor O’Connor lectures and publishes on IP and business law around the world, including India, Japan, Italy, Spain, Mexico, and Canada. His articles have been translated for publication into multiple languages. He began practicing law at major international business and technology law firms in New York and Boston, and was General Counsel to Rhizome.org from 2000-2006. Professor O’Connor began his academic career at the University of Pittsburgh before joining the faculty at the University of Washington School of Law in 2003, where he was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2006 and then Professor in 2009. He was Visiting Professor and Kauffman Fellow in Law & Entrepreneurship at University of California Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) in 2007. Professor O’Connor is also a Member of the Center for Advanced Studies and Research on IP (CASRIP); Faculty Fellow, Institute for Public Health Genetics; Faculty Fellow, Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship; and Faculty Fellow, Economics Policy Research Center. He has written numerous articles and book chapters, and is co-author of Genetic Technologies and the Law (with Patricia Kuszler & Katherine Battuello; Carolina Academic Press 2007).

	N. Ayse Odman Boztosun was born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1973. She is a member of the Faculty of Economics, Akdeniz University, Turkey and has been appointed the Head of the Commercial Law Department. Obtained BA degree from İstanbul University Faculty of Law, MJur and MSt degrees from Oxford University, PhD from İstanbul University. Served as a Doctoral Fellow at İstanbul University Faculty of Law for 6 years and transferred to Erciyes University Faculty of Law where she served as an Associate Professor lecturing on IP related courses including Patent Law and Copyright Law. Her PhD thesis is on the mutual role of IPRs and Competition Law in the Innovation Process and her most recent book deals with plant variety rights from a comparative perspective. She has published articles on various IPR-related issues including the role of TRIPs in fostering innovation, sui generis protection and utility models. She is serving as referee to various journals, especially on works related to IPRs and Competition Law. She has launched the first national annual symposium on recent developments in Competition Law six years ago and is still chairing the organizing committee. She is also a member of the International Advisory Board of the Institute for Consumer Antitrust at Chicago, Loyola School of Law.

	Chidi Oguamanam practised intellectual property law in Lagos, Nigeria in one of that country’s top corporate law firms before moving to the University of British Columbia for graduate studies. He served in the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)’s Technical Expert Working Group on Genetic Use Restriction Technologies (GURTs). He is a graduate fellow of the Canada Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Training Program in Ethics of Health Research and Policy. He is called to the Bar in Nigeria and Canada and is a member of Nigerian Bar Association and Nova Scotia’s Barristers’ Society.As a professor in the Dalhousie Law School, Dr. Oguamanam teaches courses in Contracts and Judicial Rule-Making, Sale of Goods, Law and Technology, Advanced Intellectual Property, which are aspects of his diverse research interests. In January 2007 he became the Acting Director of the Law and Technology Institute to which he is primarily affiliated in the Dalhousie Law School and was appointed the substantive Director of the Institute in July 2007. Dr Oguamanam is also a Faculty Associate of the Marine and Environmental Law Institute and the Health Law Institute in the Law School.

	Burton Ong, LL.B (NUS), BCL (Oxon), LL.M (Harv), is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law of the National University of Singapore and has been called to the Singapore and New York state bars. He teaches and researches in the areas of Intellectual Property Law, Competition Law and Contract Law at both undergraduate and graduate levels. A fellow of the IP Academy in Singapore, where he has taught courses in Copyright Law and Patent Law to legal practitioners, in-house counsel, IP executives, government officers and research scientists, his research interests include IP-related issues arising from biological innovations, the interface between Competition Law and Intellectual Property Rights, and the legal regulation of acts of unfair competition.

	Tina Piper is an Assistant Professor of Law and member of McGill’s Centre for Intellectual Property Policy. Before joining McGill University, Professor Piper clerked for the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. She completed graduate work at the University of Oxford as a Canadian Rhodes Scholar and was a Research Associate to the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre and Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies.Previously, Professor Piper graduated from the University of Toronto’s Engineering Science program as a National Scholar with a specialization in Electrical/Biomedical Engineering. She then graduated as the gold medallist at Dalhousie Law School in 2001.Professor Piper researches why people create and innovate in science and the arts and how we can better encourage and disseminate their works. She explores this from different angles starting from intellectual property law, and including insights from history, empirical studies, and from other academic disciplines. She is particularly interested in distributed collaboration, open networks, and novel legal approaches to intellectual property. Her research is both theoretical and applied; she is involved in pro-bono advocacy, research and support for NGOs (for e.g. Creative Commons www.creativecommons.ca) and advises governments and international organizations on innovation strategies.

	Graham Reynolds is an Assistant Professor at Dalhousie University Schulich School of Law, where he teaches copyright law, intellectual property law, and property law. The recipient of an award for excellence in teaching, Graham is the Co-Editor in Chief of the Canadian Journal of Law and Technology and a member of Dalhousie University’s Law and Technology Institute. Graham’s research is focused on the development of a just information society. He conceives of a just information society as one that promotes and protects human rights.Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Graham began his university education at the University of Manitoba, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in English and Psychology. Graham graduated from the University of Manitoba with the Gold Medal for the highest standing in the Faculty of Arts.Graham attended law school at Dalhousie University Schulich School of Law, where he was a Law Foundation Scholar. While at Dalhousie University, Graham was awarded prizes for the highest standing in intellectual property law, legal profession and professional responsibility, business associations, international trade law, civil procedure, and property law.After graduating from Dalhousie University, Graham pursued graduate studies at the University of Oxford, where he studied on a Rhodes Scholarship. At the University of Oxford, Graham read for and was awarded both a Bachelor of Civil Law (B.C.L.) degree and a Master of Philosophy in Law (M.Phil.) degree. As part of his B.C.L. program, Graham wrote a dissertation that explored the impact of the legislative protection of technological protection measures on fair dealing and freedom of expression. As part of his M.Phil. program, Graham wrote a dissertation that explored the consequences of granting patents on nanotechnology’s building blocks. He was awarded a Distinction for this work. Following his second year at the University of Oxford, and prior to taking up his position at Dalhousie University Schulich School of Law, Graham served as law clerk to the Honourable Lance Finch, Chief Justice of British Columbia. In addition to a Trudeau Foundation Doctoral Scholarship, Graham holds a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship.

	Giovanni Maria Riccio is Professor of Private Comparative Law at the University of Salerno and is also an associate in the Mazzetti Rossi e Associate law firm in Italy. He teaches Comparative Media Law. He also teaches Private Law at the University of Malta – Link Campus in Rome.He has been an invited professor at the Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble – France) and at the Ovidius University (Constanta – Romania). He has also been an academic visitor at the Intellectual Property Research Centre (St. Peter’s College – Oxford University, UK). He has been a consultant of the European Commission – DG Internal Market (MARKT/2006/ 09/E for a study on the liability of internet intermediaries) and national reporter at the XVIIth Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law (session: “Cyber consumer protection and fair trading – unfair commercial practises”). He is the author of 2 books and of more than 40 papers (articles, comments, notes, etc.), published on Italian and international reviews (he has published on France, US, Argentina, Spain, Germany, Belgium, Czech Republic).

	Andrea Slane is an Associate Professor in the Legal Studies Program at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. She received her J.D. (Honours) from the University of Toronto in 2003, and was called to Ontario bar in 2004. She has a PhD in Comparative Literature (Cultural Studies) from the University of California, San Diego. Before joining UOIT in 2009, Andrea was the Executive Director of the Centre for Innovation Law and Policy (CILP) at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, and prior to that practiced trade-mark, copyright, privacy and technology law in Toronto. She has published articles on unsolicited bulk email, online hate complaints, and international online defamation cases. She has done policy research with the support of the Department of Justice (on online hate), the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (on information sharing between private entities and law enforcement), and Public Safety Canada (on online child exploitation crime prevention strategies).

	Siva Thambisetty is a lecturer at the LSE with a research interest in the intellectual property protection of biotechnology, international and comparative aspects of patent law, the economics of information, and institutional aspects of the patent system. Siva completed her first degree in law at the National Law School of India, and a two year BCL degree from the University of Oxford funded by a Felix Scholarship. Her Dphil, funded by the Wellcome Trust was completed under the supervision of Prof David Vaver at Oxford.Her published work includes an expert report presented to the UK Government Comission on Intellectual Property Rights, several papers in peer reviewed journals and book chapters. She is currently the sole academic expert on a study commissioned by the UK Intellectual Property Office on controversial proposals to set up a European Patents Court.At the LSE Siva teaches intellectual property law, and in 2005 began convening a graduate course in Patent Law. She also teaches on the interdisciplinary MSc Biomedicine, Bioscience and Society Course and is a member of the Steering Committee of the BIOS centre at LSE. For more information and a link to recent work click here.

	Samuel Trosow joined the University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law in Fall 2001 and holds a joint appointment in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies. He previously taught part-time at the Golden Gate University School of Law, in the School of Library and Information Science at San Jose State University, in the School of Information Resources and Library Science at the University of Arizona, and at the People’s College of Law in Los Angeles. He is a member of the California and United States Supreme Court Bars, and was previously engaged as a sole-practitioner in Los Angeles and Berkeley, California, in general civil litigation with an emphasis on tenants’ rights law. He served as a Staff Attorney/Clinical Instructor in the housing unit at the Berkeley Community Law Centre. From 1995 until joining the faculty, Professor Trosow was a librarian at the Boalt Hall School of Law (University of California, Berkeley). His doctoral work in the Department of Information Studies at UCLA focused on information policy issues.

	Darren Wershler is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University whose writing and research focuses on the connections between media history and the arts. His research interests include digital media, the history of technology, video game studies, the 20th and 21st-century avant-gardes, poetics, cultural policy, intellectual property, plagiarism and appropriation. His most recent nonfiction book is The Iron Whim: A Fragmented History of Typewriting (McClelland & Stewart/Cornell UP).

	Peter K. Yu (余家明) holds the Kern Family Chair in Intellectual Property Law and is the founding director of the Intellectual Property Law Center at Drake University Law School. He is also a Wenlan Scholar Chair Professor at Zhongnan University of Economics and Law in Wuhan, China. In the summer, he serves as Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law. Before joining Drake University, he founded the nationally-renowned Intellectual Property & Communications Law Program at Michigan State University, at which he held faculty appointments in law, communication arts and sciences, and Asian studies.Born and raised in Hong Kong, Professor Yu is a leading expert in international intellectual property and communications law. He writes and lectures extensively on international trade, international and comparative law and the transition of the legal systems in China and Hong Kong. A prolific scholar and an award-winning teacher, he is the author or editor of three books and more than 50 law review articles and book chapters. His latest publications include a four-volume reference book set entitled Intellectual Property and Information Wealth: Issues and Practices in the Digital Age (Praeger Publishers 2007).Professor Yu has spoken at events organized by the World Intellectual Property Organization, the International Telecommunication Union, the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the Chinese, Hong Kong and U.S. governments and at leading research institutions from around the world. His lectures and presentations have spanned more than fifteen countries on five continents, and he is a frequent commentator in the national and international media. His publications, which have been translated into Chinese, Croatian and Japanese, are available on his website at www.peteryu.com. He divides his time between Des Moines, Iowa and Hong Kong.

	In Memoriam: We remember Mark Rogers as a dear friend and pre-eminent scholar of IP economics. Mark Rogers was a valued IP Osgoode research affiliate since its inception in 2008. His research focused on applied analysis of IP and performance, which uses firm-level data and asks, for example, whether firms that use IP perform better. His analysis also measured the impact of a firm’s IP on its competitors. Another project looked at the IP activity of all UK firms, including SMEs and micro firms, and whether small firms benefited from the IP system. His other research interests included the measurement of intangible assets in the service sector, university use of IP, and copyright and compulsory licensing. Mark conducted research for WIPO and the UK and Australian IP offices, along with a range of other government departments. His last book, co-authored with Oxford Professor Christine Greenhalgh, is entitled “Innovation, IP and Economic Growth” and was published in 2010 by Princeton University Press.