Monthly Archives: May 2015

The Doctoral Dissertation Defense and Submission

May 5, 2015 at 3:40 PM

On March 30, 2015, I defended my doctoral dissertation at Boston University. Because it was a long-awaited event in my PhD life, I thought of how I would defend successfully, but it just happened. Come to think of it now, having spent two years on the job market, defending the main argument in the dissertation […]

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Completing a Fellowship in Washington – South Korea and the TPP

May 4, 2015 at 3:18 PM

On the first day of the year 2015, I moved from Boston to the Greater Washington DC area to serve as Asia Studies Fellow at the East-West Center in Washington. At the EWC, I would focus specifically on intellectual property issues in the TPP negotiations and the ramifications for U.S.-Northeast Asian economic relations. However, for […]

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Intellectual Property in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)

May 2, 2015 at 12:49 PM

Back in February, I gave a presentation on intellectual property in the TPP and the TTIP at the TAPS Conference at the BMW Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown. It had been a long while since I had prepared a presentation for contents involving the European region, because I had focused on U.S.-Northeast […]

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