• Sustainability, Environment and Technology Policy at the International and Domestic Level
• Implementation and Evaluation of UN Sustainable Development Goals for firms, NGO’s
• Technology Contracts, Licensing and Intellectual Property Business Models

Advising firms, non-profits, and countries on implementation of policies relating to sustainability and environmental norms, goals and obligation, especially in relation to technology.
Managing Advocacy and Policy Organizations

Dalindyebo Shabalala is a Professor at the Suffolk University Law School. His primary teaching responsibilities are in Contracts, as well as Intellectual Property and International Environmental Law. He is Academic Co-Director of the Suffolk IP Center. His research focuses on the interaction of intellectual property law, especially patent law, with the rights of indigenous peoples and climate change law. He conducts research on the rights of indigenous peoples and traditional communities to their traditional knowledge and culture and the role of international intellectual property treaties in enabling or preventing the realization of those rights. He also conducts research on the interaction of patent law with climate change, focusing on the role of technology licensing and transfer in enabling the technology goals of the climate change convention (UNFCCC). He continues to provide advice on patent law and technology licensing to developing countries and civil society organizations in climate change negotiations.

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I am available for consulting, presentations and advisory work at dalindyebo.shabalala(at)suffolk.edu