Dr. Samuel Andrews

PUBLICATIONS:

• ‘Copyright Originality in the Digital Space-The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Creatives’ in Handbook on Originality in Copyright: Cases and Materials, edited by Indranath Gupta & Ors. Publisher: Springer (2023) (book chapter).

[Andrews, S.S. (2023). ‘Copyright Originality in the Digital Space: the Saudi Arabia’s Creatives’ in: Gupta, I. (eds) Handbook on Originality in Copyright. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1144-6_9-1

• ‘Creative Disruptions and Digital Copyright Regime of an African Film Industry: Nollywood’s Present Continuous Path’ in World Intellectual Property Organization-World Trade Organization Colloquium Papers vol. 11 Pages 170-184 (2022).
• ‘Reconceptualizing Alternative Dispute Resolution Ecosystem in the Digital Era: Saudi Arabia’s Online Transactional Engagements’ International Journal of Development and Conflict, (2022) vol. 12 issue 2, pp. 173-181.
• ‘Naijacomedy: A legit ingenious and traditional entrepreneurial laughter within the digital ecosystems and jurisprudence’ Academia Letters {November 2021},https://doi.org/10.20935/AL4113
• ‘Developing a Copyright Curriculum for Nigerian Universities for the Creative Digital Space’ GRUR Journal of European International IP Law. volume 71 (4) 322-334 (2022) (first published 31 December 2021) (Oxford University Press) (GRUR International, 2022; ikab157, https://doi.org/10.1093/grurint/ikab157).
• ‘Digital Strategies in Restorative and Rehabilitative Perspectives of the Criminal Justice Reform Era’ Albany State University Criminal Justice Journal, Vol. 2 No. 1 Page 50 (2020)
• Rethinking Transactional Jurisprudence in Copyright: Nigeria’s Unconscious Edge, 15 Lagos State University Law Journal 165 (2020)
• Globalization, Sovereignty and Ethiopia in the Age of IP Creative Jurisprudence, 4 International Journal of Ethiopian Legal Studies 120-138 (2019); https://journal.uog.edu.et/index.php/IJELS/article/view/84
• Balancing Restorative Justice and Indigenous Traditional System in Criminal Justice Jurisprudence, Journal of Criminology and Forensic Studies (2019)
• Reforming Copyright Law for A Developing Africa, 66 JOURNAL, COPYRIGHT SOCIETY OF THE USA No1. Page 1. winter 2019. [66 J. Copyright Soc’y USA 1 (2018)].
• Reconceptualizing International Copyright Law to Protect African Creative Industries, OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY LAW JOURNAL vol.1. Page 217-242 (2018). ISSN: 0795-8714.

SELECTED PRESENTATION IN ACADEMIC CONFERENCES:

• “Intellectual property and contracts: Nigeria’s transactional jurisprudential shift for protecting-enforcing creative rights in the film industry of the digital era” paper presented at the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP), 41st Annual Congress at the University of Tokyo, Japan, 10 July 2023
• ‘Copyright originality theories of Saudi Arabia in the digital era: choosing from the tripartite (Gordian) knot?’ paper presented at the fifth IP & Innovation Researchers of Asia (IPIRA) Conference held at Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 1-3 March 2023.
• International Association of The Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP) 40th Congress (virtual/online event) on 22-24, June 2022 on the theme “IPR in times of crises: lessons learned from Covid-19 Pandemic’ Presented Paper entitled: “The Creative Ingenuity of Cinematic Digital Era: Nollywood’s Response in the Space of a Pandemic, Covid-19.”
• “Reconceptualizing Alternative Dispute Resolution Ecosystem in the Digital Era: Saudi Arabia’s Online Transactional Engagements” Paper Presented at International Conference on Conflict Resolution and Prevention 10 May 2022 (Virtually) organized by International Journal of Development and Conflict (2022) at PMU Al Khobar.
• Participated as a WIPO-WTO nominee on an Observer status in the 17th (virtual) WIPO-WTO Colloquium for IP Teachers, Geneva, Switzerland, November 1-11, 2021
• “Unpacking the Intersectionality of IP’s Limitation Jurisprudence and The Marrakesh Treaty: Disabilities and Expressions in Copyright- Ethiopia, Nigeria & USA” Paper Presented at 2nd IP & Innovation Researchers of Asia Conference & Workshop for IP Teachers and Researchers, Fakultas Hukum, Universitas Indonesia., February 27-29, 2020.
• “Developing the Intellectual Property Curriculum in African Law Schools to Protect and Promote the Creative Industries: Case Study on Afrollywood” Paper Presented at WIPO-WTO 16th Colloquium for IP Teachers, Geneva, Switzerland, June 17-27, 2019.
• “Geographical Indications Covering the Fields in Europe and Africa: Closing the Gap in Intellectual Property’s Economic and Creative Power Imbalances-The Continuum” Paper Presented at Second IP Researchers Europe (IPRE), jointly organized by WIPO-WTO & University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland. June 19 2019.

Before venturing formally into academia, he founded his law firm in 1995, Samuel Andrews & Co, which later merged with another firm to form a partnership, ZFC Law Firm and he rose to be its managing partner and chief executive, a successful mid-size law firm. He principally practiced law as a corporate-commercial attorney in the banking-financial services sector, in the area of intellectual property law, corporations-charities organizations law, public interest and constitutional rights, capital market-securities law and employment-labor rights  in the oil and gas industries. He performed several  pro bono legal work as part of his community service.

His teaching experiences spread across the graduate and undergraduate levels of universities in North America, Europe, and Africa. His teaching areas of specialty include intellectual property law, international Law, legal protection for creative industries particularly the film industries, commercial law, international trade law and, law & culture, criminal justice and cybercriminology. His research interests include International intellectual property rights, Law, culture & technology, Geographical indications, international human rights, international humanitarian law, Law curriculum development, Artificial intelligence, and creative rights. He sits on the editorial board of reputable scholarly journals and publications.

He has published numerous peer reviewed papers in reputable and highly impactful academic journals and publications like the Journal of the Copyright Society of the USA, GRUR International Journal of European and International Intellectual Property Law, World Intellectual Property Organization-World Trade Organization Colloquium Papers, International Journal of Development and Conflict and others around the subject of intellectual property law and the creative industries of the global South and their economies, particularly on the relevance of the legal protection of people’s culture and creative rights in the film, music and traditional-cultural industries.

He has presented papers extensively in international academic conferences in Middle East, Asia, North America, Africa, and Europe. He seeks to collaborate with other faculties and students to make YU one of the greatest centers of academic excellence in legal studies globally, and to produce subject matter experts for achieving the developmental visions of the Gulf region, and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

He submitted a technical Paper titled, “Digital Copyright and Draft Nigerian Copyright Bill” (Feb. 10, 2016), A Commentary to the Committee of Nigerian Copyright Commission on the Draft Copyright Bill (2015) (as part of amendment processes to Nigeria’s Copyright Laws) (currently, Copyright Act 2022 (Nigeria), that received a Recorded commendation from the Nigerian Copyright Commission.

In April 2023, his scholarly work on the current copyright law of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the first of its kind on the subject, has been published as ‘Copyright Originality in the Digital Space-The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Creatives’ in Handbook on Originality in Copyright: Cases and Materials, edited by Indranath Gupta & Ors. Publisher: Springer (2023) (book chapter), cited as, [Andrews, S.S. (2023). ‘Copyright Originality in the Digital Space: the Saudi Arabia’s Creatives’ in: Gupta, I. (eds) Handbook on Originality in Copyright. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org.10.1007/978-981-19-1144-6_91

Teaching Area: 

Intellectual Property Policy, Copyright, Digital Copyright, Criminal Justice, Comparative law, Social Justice, Criminology, Cybercriminology, International Intellectual Property, Jurisprudence & International Trade Law & Policy, Politics & law, Legal Writing and Research Methodology, Business & Commercial Law, Employment & Labor law, Comparative Property Law, Global Legal Systems, Psychology & Law, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Legal Ethics, Contract law, Constitutional Law, Tort Law, Corporation (company) Law, Criminal Law.

Research Area: 

Cybercrime, Traditional Cultural Expressions, Geographical Indications, Law, Culture & Technology, African Creative Industries: Food, Films & Fashion Laws, Nollywood | African films, International Human Rights & Intellectual Property Rights, Artificial Intelligence and Traditional Cultural Expressions, Race Theories, IP for Creative Industries, Criminal Justice and Social Justice, Creativity, Indigenous Creations and Innovation Law of the Gulf Cooperation Council States & the Arab Nations.