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Alina Ng
Assistant Professor of Law
 Email: ng@mc.edu
PH: (601) 925-7176



Education:

  • Doctor of the Science of Law (JSD), Stanford Law School; 2004.
  • Master of the Science of Law (JSM), Stanford Law School; 2001.
  • Master of Law (LLM), Clare Hall, University of Cambridge; 1996.
  • Bachelor of Law (LLB), University of London; 1995.
 

Areas of Legal Expertise:

  • Cyberspace Law
  • Intellectual Property
  • Law and Economics
  • Property Law

Courses Taught :

  • Property
  • Cyberlaws
  • Copyright
  • Patent
  • Law & Economics
  • Advance Copyright

Scholarships and Academic awards :

  • Fulbright Scholarship (2000-2004)
  • Lieberman Fellowship, Stanford University (2000-2001)
  • Cambridge Commonwealth Scholarship (1995-1996)
  • Director's Prize for First Class Honors in Jurisprudence and Legal Theory (1995)

other affiliations and certifications :

  • Legal Project Lead, Creative Commons Malaysia 2006-
  • Member, Oxford and Cambridge Society, Malaysia, 2004-
  • Fellow, Cambridge Commonwealth Society, 1995-

Publications:

  • The Author's Rights in Literary and Artistic Works, forthcoming in John Marshall Intellectual Property Law Review (Fall 2009).
  • The Social Contract and Authorship: Allocating Entitlements in the Copyright System, 19 Fordham Intell. Prop. Media & Ent. L.J. 413 (2009).
  • Authors and Readers: Conceptualizing Authorship in Copyright Law, 30 Hastings Comm. & Ent. L.J. 377 (2008).
  • Copyright's Empire: Why the Law Matters, 11 Marq. Intell. Prop. L. Rev. 337 (2007).
  • Malaysia: On the Road to the Information Age with Vincent Lowe (Asian Media Information and Communication Center and School of Communication Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 1999)

Professional experience:

  • Assistant Professor of Law, Mississippi College School of Law (August 2007-present)
  • Senior Executive, Multimedia Development Corporation, Cyberjaya, Malaysia (August 2004-June 2007)
  • Research Assistant to Professors Deborah Rhode and Lawrence Lessig, Stanford Law School (May 2003-September 2003)
  • Senior Executive, Multimedia Development Corporation, Cyberjaya, Malaysia (June 1997- September 2000)
  • Tax Assistant, Arthur Andersen, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (November 1996 - May 1997)

Thesis and dissertation:

  • Commercializing Motion Pictures and Sound Recording through the Internet: Copyright Law and Technological Change (on file with Stanford Robert Crown Law Library and Stanford University Library Special Collections and University Archives, 3781 2004 N)
  • The Economics of Intellectual Property Rights, Competition and Technology Transfer in the Software Industry (on file with Stanford Robert Crown Law Library, 3781 2001 N)

works in progress:

  • Access and Progress: Copyright and the Commercialization of Sound Recordings and Motion Pictures (revision of JSD dissertation for book publication)
  • Owning Literary and Artistic Works
  • Property Rights, Economic Incentives and Access to Information
  • Social Norms and Creativity during the Renaissance Period
  • Artistic Norms, Property Rights and Copyright
  • The Ethics of Authorship
  • When Users are Authors: Authorship in the Age of Digital Media
  • Taking Copyright Seriously: When Abridging Rights is Wrong

presentations and conferences:

  • "Owning Literary and Artistic Works," 2nd Conference on Innovation and Communication Law, University of Louisville, Aug. 21-22, 2009
  • "The Author's Rights in Literary and Artistic Works," Midwestern Political Science Association Annual Conference, Chicago, Apr. 2-5, 2009
  • "Property Rights and Access to Information," Intellectual Property Scholars Roundtable, Drake Law School, Feb. 27-29, 2009
  • "Authorial Rights in the Copyright System," Works-in-Progress Intellectual Property Conference, Tulane Law School, Oct. 3-4, 2008
  • "The Social Contract and Authorship," Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, Stanford Law School, Aug. 7-8, 2008
  • "Property and Access in Copyright," Southeastern Association of Law Schools New Scholars Conference, Ritz Carlton, Palm Beach, Jul. 28-Aug. 1, 2008
  • "The Social Contract and Authorship," Intellectual Property Scholars Roundtable, Drake University Law School, Feb. 22-23, 2008
  • "Inalienability of Property in Literary and Artistic Works," Junior Property Scholar Workshop, Widener Law School, Feb. 8-9, 2008
  • "Authorship in the Commons," Asia and Commons in the Information Age, Taipei, Taiwan, Jan. 19-20, 2008

languages spoken:

  • English, Written and Spoken, Excellent
  • Bahasa Malaysia, Written and Spoken, Good