Mary W. S. Wong
Professor of Law & Chair, IP Programs
- LLB, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- LLM, Cambridge University, UK
- mwong@piercelaw.edu
- (603) 513-5143
- Courses: Contemporary Issues in International Copyright Law, Copyright Law, Copyright Licensing, Intellectual Property in the Information Society
- Committees: Appointments, Dean Search Committee, Entertainment Law Society Advisor, Moderator/Facilitator, SIPLA Advisor, Graduate Programs Concentration Chairs (IP)
- Curriculum Vitae (CV)
- Scholarship
- A selection of Professor Wong's writings is available on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
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Professor Wong joined Pierce Law in 2005 from the Singapore Management University, where she was an Associate Professor of Law in the Lee Kong Chian School of Business. From 1998 to 2003 Professor Wong was Special Counsel to Morrison & Foerster LLP, resident primarily in its New York office. While at Morrison & Foerster, Professor Wong counseled American, European and Asian clients on a wide range of technology transactions, and provided advice on international and comparative legal developments in relation to the Internet, privacy, e-Commerce and intellectual property. She has also been associated with the firm's Brussels and Singapore offices, and was previously a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the National University of Singapore.
Professor Wong is the current Chair of the Graduate Intellectual Property Program at Pierce Law. In addition, Professor Wong chairs the International Copyright committee of the American Bar Association’s (ABA) Intellectual Property Law Section. She has also been appointed to the ABA’s Copyright Reform Task Force and is a member of the Editorial Board for “Landslide”, the Section’s flagship publication. In 2009, Professor Wong was elected to the Generic Names Supporting Organizations Council of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers (ICANN), representing ICANN’s Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group. 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.”
