Lecturers

A brief description of the experience

Fulbright Scholar, Syracuse University (USA). Master of Laws (LL.M.), Michigan State University (USA) and Central European University (Hungary). Lawyer and patent attorney, founder and director of the law firm "NB Legal." The main areas of his scientific and practical interests are Intellectual Property Law and Internet Law. He has published 15 scientific works in Georgia and the USA. His works mainly relate to copyright, protection of neighboring rights, intellectual property rights on the Internet, freedom of expression and other issues. Levan Nanobashvili has been teaching at GIPA since 2008. He also teaches at the University of Georgia and the Business and Technology University. In 2015 he was invited to Masaryk University (Czech Republic), where he taught Media Law.

Courses: 

• Intellectual Property Law
• Internet Law 

Research and publications: 

• "It All Started with a Mouse.” Intellectual Property and Technology Law Blog of the Georgian-German Journal of the Comparative Law, 1/2024
• “Compliance of Georgia with its international obligations for the protection of copyright and neighboring rights” (co-author). Georgian-German Journal of the Comparative Law, 12/2023
• „Definition of the Metaverse and its legal challenges.” Georgian-German Journal of the Comparative Law, 11/2022
• “If the Metaverse is built, will copyright challenges come?” Review of Intellectual Property Law at the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law, 21 UIC Rev. Intell. Prop. L. 215 (2022)
• “Legal Protection of a Title of a Work.” Georgian-German Journal of the Comparative Law, 9/2021

Research interests:

The legal regulation of the Internet, Freedom of Expression, Intellectual Property Law, Media Law