Chinenye Helen Eze

Chinenye Helen Eze is a Ph.D student at the Peter Allard School of Law, where she completed her LLM in 2022. She has a passion for intellectual property and social justice. Her research examines the effect of human gene patents on medical research in the United States of America and Nigeria. Chinenye seeks to examine this issue through Critical Intellectual Property lens and a qualitative and comparative methodological approach.

Before Allard, Chinenye had a obtained a Master of laws degree from the University of Nigeria, a bachelor of laws degree from the University of Nigeria Nsukka and has been called to the Nigerian Bar in 2016. She has over 6 years of law practice and has volunteered and worked for NGOs in Nigeria (Stand-to-end rape, FIDA, LIN Global) and Canada advocating on issues of social justice. Chinenye is also a published Author and has deployed creative writing to create awareness on issues affecting teenage girls and women in Nigeria.

She is a receipent of the SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship and the Four year  Doctoral Fellowship (4YF).

Supervisor: Graham Reynolds

• Eze, H Chinenye. Creating New Narratives: Arguments for Property Rights in Human Genetic Materials. (2023). 
• A Critical Perspective of Missappropriation of Human Genetic Materials through Patents. (2023).

Presentations

• (2014) “The Role and achievements of International Organizations in International Humanitarian Law”: Past and present perspectives. Presented by me at the University of Nigeria Enugu, International Humanitarian Law event 2014.
• (2019) “Legal right of ordinary Citizens that offer legal Assistance to Road Accident Victims in Nigeria” at the National rescue summit held by the Emergency Rescue information control centre (ERICC) at the University of Ibadan on the 26th of September in 2019.
• (2023). Protecting the Genie in the Bottle: The Gold rush for Human Genes and Misappropriation through Patents.24th Annual Interdisciplinary Legal studies Graduate Conference, Vancouver, Canada
• (2023). "I didn't agree to that": The Patent and Copyright Problem of Researching Human Genetic Materials. Future of the Global IP System Workshop, Vancouver, Canada.