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.

Career History

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

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. 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.

She has since been elected to serve as the Vice-Chair of the GNSO Council. Professor Wong is also the immediate past chair of the

Professor Wong is currently an Associate Fellow of the IP Academy of Singapore, and has served previously as 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. She was also the co-founder of Project Law Help, an initiative adopted by the Law Society of Singapore to provide pro bono corporate and transactional legal services to charities and nonprofit organizations in Singapore.

Professor Wong's research interests are centered on the legal and policy challenges presented by digital technology and the Internet, in particular to the international intellectual property rights framework. Her current research focuses on the intersection of copyright and human rights, and comparative copyright issues related to user-generated content. Professor Wong is also a frequent speaker at conferences in the United States, Europe and Asia.

"Given my background and the nature of digital technology, I suppose it's natural that I should think it's important for lawyers to have an awareness of legal issues and developments in countries and systems other than their own. This can be a challenge when many laws are historically and essentially territorial in nature. I also believe it's important for a law teacher to try to convey to students a sense of the intellectual allure and social relevance that law by its nature possesses. I hope that my students leave my classes with the ability not just to be good practicing lawyers, but also with a passion for thinking about and possibly helping to shape the outcome of the legal issues of their day."