Dalindyebo Bafana Shabalala (University Lecturer/Assistant Professor International Intellectual Property)
Bouillonstraat 3
Room B0.229
Maastricht
P.O. box 616
NL-6200 Maastricht
The Netherlands
E-mail: dalindyebo.shabalala@maastrichtuniversity.nl
List of publications: Metis
Curriculum Vitae
Dalindyebo Shabalala is Assistant Professor, International Economic Law (Intellectual Property) at Maastricht University. He also serves as Academic Coordinator for Project Acquisition of the Institute for Globalization and International Regulation (IGIR). He was appointed with additional funding from the India Institute of Maastricht University and his activities include research on and capacity building in India. His research focuses on Climate Change and Intellectual Property, and Intellectual Property and Development Policy.
Previously, Dalindyebo was the managing attorney of CIEL’s Geneva office, and Director of CIEL's Intellectual Property and Sustainable Development Project. He focused on issues at the intersection of Intellectual Property and Climate Change, Human Health, Biodiversity and Food Security, as well as addressing systemic reform of the international intellectual property system. Mr. Shabalala was a Research Fellow in the Innovation, Access to Knowledge, and Intellectual Property Programme at the South Centre (2005–2006), an intergovernmental organization of developing countries in Geneva, Switzerland. Before this, Mr. Shabalala worked as an intern at the South Centre with Dr. Carlos Correa in the Intellectual Property Policy Research and Development Project, researching patent policy in developing countries.
Mr. Shabalala received his B.A. degree in Political Science and Cognitive Science, from Vassar College in 1998. At Vassar he was a Ford Foundation Scholar in the Political Science Department and an Undergraduate Research Science Institute Scholar in the Cognitive Science Department. Mr. Shabalala received his Juris Doctor, cum laude, from the University of Minnesota Law School in 2004, where he worked with Prof. David Weissbrodt on researching the Human Rights Responsibilities of Transnational Corporations.
