Primary Job Title Professor of Law Primary Organization 
Howard University School of Law
Location Washington, District of Columbia, United States Regions Washington DC Metro Area, Southern US Gender Male
Lateef Mtima is a Professor of Law at the Howard University School of Law and the Founder and Director of the Institute for Intellectual Property and Social Justice, an accredited Non-governmental Organization Member of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
Professor Mtima received his J.D. degree from Harvard Law School, where
he was the co-founder and later the editor-in-chief of the Harvard BlackLetter Journal.
Currently a member of the Advisory Council for the United States Court of Federal Claims and the Bloomberg BNA Patent, Trademark & Copyright Journal Advisory Board, Professor Mtima has held the post of Distinguished Libra Visiting Scholar in Residence at the University of Maine School of Law, is a past President of the Giles S. Rich Inn of Court for the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and was a member of the founding Editorial Board for the American Bar Association intellectual property periodical Landslide.
