The mission of the Institute for Intellectual Property and Social Justice (IIPSJ) is to empower politically, socially, and economically traditionally disadvantaged and excluded groups through facilitating their creation, use, and exploitation of intellectual property.
The Institute undertakes numerous programs and activities to further its mission. Foremost among these is the IIPSJ Intellectual Property Law and Policy Think Tank, which is the only IP Think Tank dedicated to evaluating IP law and policy and IP-related issues from the social justice perspectives of inclusion and empowerment.
The two major aspects of the Think Tank are the academic and policy advocacyside on the one hand and the community-focused impact work on the other.
The IIPSJ Think Tank functions (1) as an incubator for developing new social justice oriented IP legislation and amending existing IP law; (2) as a institution around which Civil Rights activism and community awareness, education, entrepreneurship, and empowerment in the field of IP are centered; and (3) as a locus for scholarly and professional involvement on important national and international IP law and policy controversies.