Prof. Samuel Samiái Andrews, SJD, LL.M, LL. B (Hons), BL, LL.M
https://yue.yu.edu.sa/faculty/dr-samuel-andrews/
https://www.asurams.edu/academic-affairs/college-of-business-education-professional-studies/criminal-justice/faculty-staff.php
Prof. Samiái is currently on the faculty of the Al Yamamah University College of Law in Al Khobar, Eastern Province of the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He is the foundation and founding (first) law teacher/instructor at the College of Law, which started operations in the Fall of 2023. He was formerly a faculty member of the College of Law, Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University as an Assistant Professor. He was a Professor of Intellectual Property Law at the University of Gondar, Ethiopia. He speaks English, Yoruba, and Ibibio fluently. He is a Professor of Intellectual Property Law. He is a USA Ambassador’s Distinguished Scholar. He holds a Doctor of Juridical Science (SJD) degree from Suffolk University Law School Boston, Massachusetts, USA (2018). He holds an LL.M degree in Intellectual Property Law & Policy from the University of Washington, Seattle, USA (2008). He also holds another LL.M degree in International Law & Jurisprudence (2000) and an LL. B (Honors) degree (1989), all from the University of Uyo, Nigeria. He holds a Barrister-at-law (BL) (1990) diploma from the Nigerian law School, Lagos, and a practicing license from the Supreme Court of Nigeria to practice law in the entire federation of Nigeria. He is currently an Adjunct Professor of Criminal Justice and Legal Environment of Business at Albany State University in Albany, Georgia, United States of America. He teaches law courses which includes intellectual property law subjects, engages in research and curriculum development, teaches core law courses, and explores international comparative law and international law and Sharia Legal System. As a founding law instructor and teacher at Al Yamamah University, Al Khobar, College of Law and with a focus on intellectual property and international law, his tenure at Al Yamamah University has been dedicated to pioneering a comprehensive legal curriculum that intertwines with Sharia legal system. His expertise in IP law is complemented by his experiential capacities in developing an effective Law School curriculum, and other Law fora, where students, legal professionals and academics converge to discuss cutting-edge legal challenges. His goals include molding law students into professionals adept at navigating the global legal landscapes. As of-Counsel, at The Law Temple Associates, he provides expert legal advisory services, leveraging deep knowledge in IP rights management and commercial law. With expertise in intellectual property (IP) law & policy, digital IP laws and international comparative law, Dr. Andrews’ contributions extend beyond academia to influence the global understanding and enforcement of indigenous creative goods. He has extensive teaching and professional practice experience as an international lawyer and an academic. 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 rose to be its managing partner and chief executive, a successful mid-size law firm. He mainly practiced law as a corporate-commercial attorney in the banking-financial services sector, around intellectual property law. He performed a substantial number of pro bono legal works as part of his community service. His teaching experiences spread across the graduate and undergraduate levels of universities in North America, Europe, Middle East, and Africa. His research interest intellectual property rights, Law, culture & technology, Geographical indications, Law curriculum development, Artificial intelligence, and creative rights. He sits on the editorial board of reputable scholarly journals and publications. He is an author. He has published more within the last five years than twenty peer reviewed papers in reputable academic journals and publications around intellectual property law. He has presented papers extensively in international academic conferences in Asia, North America, Middle East, Africa, and Europe. 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, The Copyright Act 2022 (Nigeria), which he received a Recorded commendation from the Nigerian Copyright Commission. 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, Andrews, S.S. (2023). ‘Copyright Originality in the Digital Space: The Saudi Arabia’s Creatives’ in: Gupta, I. (eds) Handbook on Originality in Copyright by Springer.
Supervisors: Prof. Michael L. Rustad, JD, LL.M, Ph.D., Prof. Andrew Beckerman-Rodau, Prof. Elizabeth Trujillo, Prof. Jessica Silbey (former Chair, SJD Committee)., Prof. Thomas Koenig (Northeastern University, Boston, and USA).
Phone: +966135120014
Address: https://youtube.com/@SamuelAndrewssamiai
https://therealsamiai.link/pioneering439abe2642
https://www.asurams.edu/academic-affairs/college-of-business-education-professional-studies/criminal-justice/faculty-staff.php
Prof. Samiái is currently on the faculty of the Al Yamamah University College of Law in Al Khobar, Eastern Province of the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He is the foundation and founding (first) law teacher/instructor at the College of Law, which started operations in the Fall of 2023. He was formerly a faculty member of the College of Law, Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University as an Assistant Professor. He was a Professor of Intellectual Property Law at the University of Gondar, Ethiopia. He speaks English, Yoruba, and Ibibio fluently. He is a Professor of Intellectual Property Law. He is a USA Ambassador’s Distinguished Scholar. He holds a Doctor of Juridical Science (SJD) degree from Suffolk University Law School Boston, Massachusetts, USA (2018). He holds an LL.M degree in Intellectual Property Law & Policy from the University of Washington, Seattle, USA (2008). He also holds another LL.M degree in International Law & Jurisprudence (2000) and an LL. B (Honors) degree (1989), all from the University of Uyo, Nigeria. He holds a Barrister-at-law (BL) (1990) diploma from the Nigerian law School, Lagos, and a practicing license from the Supreme Court of Nigeria to practice law in the entire federation of Nigeria. He is currently an Adjunct Professor of Criminal Justice and Legal Environment of Business at Albany State University in Albany, Georgia, United States of America. He teaches law courses which includes intellectual property law subjects, engages in research and curriculum development, teaches core law courses, and explores international comparative law and international law and Sharia Legal System. As a founding law instructor and teacher at Al Yamamah University, Al Khobar, College of Law and with a focus on intellectual property and international law, his tenure at Al Yamamah University has been dedicated to pioneering a comprehensive legal curriculum that intertwines with Sharia legal system. His expertise in IP law is complemented by his experiential capacities in developing an effective Law School curriculum, and other Law fora, where students, legal professionals and academics converge to discuss cutting-edge legal challenges. His goals include molding law students into professionals adept at navigating the global legal landscapes. As of-Counsel, at The Law Temple Associates, he provides expert legal advisory services, leveraging deep knowledge in IP rights management and commercial law. With expertise in intellectual property (IP) law & policy, digital IP laws and international comparative law, Dr. Andrews’ contributions extend beyond academia to influence the global understanding and enforcement of indigenous creative goods. He has extensive teaching and professional practice experience as an international lawyer and an academic. 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 rose to be its managing partner and chief executive, a successful mid-size law firm. He mainly practiced law as a corporate-commercial attorney in the banking-financial services sector, around intellectual property law. He performed a substantial number of pro bono legal works as part of his community service. His teaching experiences spread across the graduate and undergraduate levels of universities in North America, Europe, Middle East, and Africa. His research interest intellectual property rights, Law, culture & technology, Geographical indications, Law curriculum development, Artificial intelligence, and creative rights. He sits on the editorial board of reputable scholarly journals and publications. He is an author. He has published more within the last five years than twenty peer reviewed papers in reputable academic journals and publications around intellectual property law. He has presented papers extensively in international academic conferences in Asia, North America, Middle East, Africa, and Europe. 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, The Copyright Act 2022 (Nigeria), which he received a Recorded commendation from the Nigerian Copyright Commission. 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, Andrews, S.S. (2023). ‘Copyright Originality in the Digital Space: The Saudi Arabia’s Creatives’ in: Gupta, I. (eds) Handbook on Originality in Copyright by Springer.
Supervisors: Prof. Michael L. Rustad, JD, LL.M, Ph.D., Prof. Andrew Beckerman-Rodau, Prof. Elizabeth Trujillo, Prof. Jessica Silbey (former Chair, SJD Committee)., Prof. Thomas Koenig (Northeastern University, Boston, and USA).
Phone: +966135120014
Address: https://youtube.com/@SamuelAndrewssamiai
https://therealsamiai.link/pioneering439abe2642
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Reenter Society Transformed Safely Transitioning Every Person Act (“First Step Act”), could effectuate restorative and rehabilitative justice.
Samuel Samiai Andrews*
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In Criminology and Criminal Justice System, the relevance of their objectives in jurisprudence has been an ongoing debate in existing literature. Criminological schools of thought oscillate from the higher values of one theorem and doctrinaire to the other. Between the deterrence, punishment, and restorative-rehabilitative divide, most literature evaluates their conclusions from the Western jurisprudential and sociological prism. Few analyses have focus on existing criminal justice systems of traditional African societies. For example, the South African Truth Commission (The Truth Commission) represents an indigenous African jurisprudential approach to criminal justice and criminological explorations of socio-political malaise in society. The Truth Commission highlighted the tilt towards restorative-rehabilitative essence of how most Africans approach crime and injustice. This article explores the continuing jurisprudential issues from the traditional African customary law systems, using Nigeria and its film industry as a case study. The paper critically examines criminal justice and criminology systems based on their essence in the customary laws of traditional and modern society. In conclusion, this article recommends an incorporation of the customary law regimes, which tilt towards restorative justice in the scale of objectives of criminal justice.
*Samuel Samiai Andrews, SJD is a Professor of Intellectual Property Law and USA Ambassador’s Distinguished Scholar, University of Gondar, School of Law, Ethiopia. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Legal Environment of Business and Cybercriminology at Albany State University, Albany, Georgia. USA. He has lectured in the Doctor of Juridical Science (SJD) Colloquium, Seminar & Workshop Program of Suffolk University Law School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He holds a Doctor of Juridical Science degree from Suffolk University Law School Boston. USA. He holds an LL.M in Intellectual Property Law & Policy from the University of Washington, Seattle. USA. He also holds an LL.M in International Law & Jurisprudence | Legal Theory and an LL. B (Hons) all from the University of Uyo, Nigeria. He holds a Barrister-at-law (BL) diploma from the Nigerian law School, Lagos. Samuel Samiai Andrews, © 2019 Samuel Samiai Andrews. All Rights Reserved.
Reenter Society Transformed Safely Transitioning Every Person Act (“First Step Act”), could effectuate restorative and rehabilitative justice.
Samuel Samiai Andrews*
Abstract
In Criminology and Criminal Justice System, the relevance of their objectives in jurisprudence has been an ongoing debate in existing literature. Criminological schools of thought oscillate from the higher values of one theorem and doctrinaire to the other. Between the deterrence, punishment, and restorative-rehabilitative divide, most literature evaluates their conclusions from the Western jurisprudential and sociological prism. Few analyses have focus on existing criminal justice systems of traditional African societies. For example, the South African Truth Commission (The Truth Commission) represents an indigenous African jurisprudential approach to criminal justice and criminological explorations of socio-political malaise in society. The Truth Commission highlighted the tilt towards restorative-rehabilitative essence of how most Africans approach crime and injustice. This article explores the continuing jurisprudential issues from the traditional African customary law systems, using Nigeria and its film industry as a case study. The paper critically examines criminal justice and criminology systems based on their essence in the customary laws of traditional and modern society. In conclusion, this article recommends an incorporation of the customary law regimes, which tilt towards restorative justice in the scale of objectives of criminal justice.
*Samuel Samiai Andrews, SJD is a Professor of Intellectual Property Law and USA Ambassador’s Distinguished Scholar, University of Gondar, School of Law, Ethiopia. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Legal Environment of Business and Cybercriminology at Albany State University, Albany, Georgia. USA. He has lectured in the Doctor of Juridical Science (SJD) Colloquium, Seminar & Workshop Program of Suffolk University Law School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He holds a Doctor of Juridical Science degree from Suffolk University Law School Boston. USA. He holds an LL.M in Intellectual Property Law & Policy from the University of Washington, Seattle. USA. He also holds an LL.M in International Law & Jurisprudence | Legal Theory and an LL. B (Hons) all from the University of Uyo, Nigeria. He holds a Barrister-at-law (BL) diploma from the Nigerian law School, Lagos. Samuel Samiai Andrews, © 2019 Samuel Samiai Andrews. All Rights Reserved.
This article explores the intersectionality between enhanced national copyright laws and economic growth of African creative industries. Recently, African creative industries, which include films, fashion, traditional cultural expressions, music, and literary arts, resurged into various national economic productive spaces. This article critically examines and analyzes the connecting thread between African creativity and economic growth. I use Nigeria as a case study to critically analyze how a strong national copyright regime may impel an indigenous creative industry, for example, “Afrollywood.” Nollywood, the Nigerian film industry is the third largest globally in terms of production index. Hollywood is the leading film industry while Bollywood and Nollywood occupy the second and third position respectively. Most developing economies in Africa, including Nigeria suffer from legal lag in their intellectual property (IP) right regimes. The consequences of playing “catch-up” in IP policies and rights enforcement stalls the developing of robust regional and international trade systems and creative industrial bases. Therefore, Africa interacts in a monetized creative field that is uneven. This article concludes that a starting approach to spur the African creative industrial economic engine and artistic forces is reforming and enhancing its copyright laws to recognize digital era productive realities.
I made a case that Africa and other Global Southern economies should adopt a more measurable and realistic strategy (Indigenous IP Jurisprudence and political force) in their advocacy for recognition of their rich/effective creative-innovative regimes.
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Let us do a brief retrospection: The heightened advocacy for artificial intelligence (AI) to have the capacity and privileges of humans and persons, including economic rights of owning-authorship of an invention/creative works have been around us for less than a decade. Meanwhile, indigenous and traditional peoples of the Global South, including some in the North America, Australia and certain geographical sections of Europe who, have been creating arts, songs, medicine, forms of entertainment, inventions, performing music/songs, oral poetry and the likes have been begging for their creations and inventions to be legally protected with derivable economic benefits for longer than three decades. The recognition and protection of these indigenous creations is not just a matter of justice but a call to action for all of humanity. AI advocates and its corporate backers have made the issue of legal personhood for AI, the core focus of contemporary legal and public policy persuasion. I agree that AI without doubt will contribute beneficially to societal developmental growth and advancement. This paper posits here that intellectual property’s core and classic objective is rooted in equity and justice-that one ought to be rewarded for their entrepreneurial work or efforts or sweat. Further, that one who solves problems or creates benefits to society ought to be rewarded. The question may be asked- What equity? It is innately moral and an agency for balancing mischiefs or hardships created by humans or events, which adversely impacted other persons or groups of persons. However, the effluxion of time, political and ideological suasions have aggravated the unevenness of the technological developmental fields tilted unfairly against the Global South including Africa. Sub-Saharan Africa for long has been exploited by forces outside of her hemispheres for economic advantages, which came about through circular competitive economic advantages. For example, it took more than three decades for the world to agree on an international regime for traditional knowledge (TK) and genetic resources (GR). Traditional expressions, TK and GR largely have been products that the Global South derives a huge competitive economic advantage. African indigenous creative and innovative regimes like customary law have always rewarded, enforced and promoted inventions and creations. African IP jurisprudence has always been with us. Although either deliberately or unwittingly, these indigenous regimes have attracted low global visibility. These regimes had a strong influence on substantive and procedural justice rooted in the norms and ethos of its people. Communal transmission of customary laws, which includes African IP jurisprudence contributes to their effectiveness and efficiency. The mostly Global Southern peoples including Africans express their creative crafts and arts, including their unique inventions, that embody tribal identities, spiritual cohesion and socio-economic development in continuum. This paper analyses the concept of ‘justice’ from an African jurisprudential perspective and the classic criminological construct. It conceptualises African indigenous creative and innovative regimes as an agency of development justice, particularly its procedural and substantive subsets. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) are coated with the principles of equity, justice and fairness. However, does global humanity reflect on how the concept of justice implicates the creations and innovations of the indigenous and traditional peoples of Africa and the Global South? The need for equitable IP frameworks is urgent and cannot be overstated. It does appear to us that the current global political and economic structures are not amenable to a flourishing Global South’s techno-creative growth. The SDGs that interact most with the knowledge economy and the concept of justice are Goal 4 (Quality education), Goal 9 (promote inclusive and sustainable industrialisation and foster innovation—build resilient infrastructure), and Goal 16 (Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions). Ingrained in these goals and others are the principles of justice, equity, and social development of societies. Therefore, this paper seeks to critically examine and analyse how these justice themes ought to be heightened within the prism of years of unfair misappropriations and infringements of intellectual property rights of Africans, particularly Sub-Saharan Africans of their copyrights, neighbouring rights and performance rights, traditional knowledge, traditional expressions, genetic resources and life preserving-curative resources, and inventive outcomes. The paper concludes by offering suggestions and recommendations on how these indigenous inventions, natural resources and creative works could become a currency for the emerging unified trade and socioeconomic fronts for the Global South including Sub-Saharan Africa.
Keywords: Development Justice, Global Knowledge Governance, Intellectual Property, Sustainable Development Goals, Traditional Expression, Artificial Intelligence.