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FULBRIGHT

SCHOLARS

UHLC Professors Knake and Kumar

named Fulbright scholars

University of Houston Law Center Professors Renee
Knake and Sapna Kumar have been awarded Fulbright grants
to conduct research in their specialty areas in Australia and
Europe respectively for the 2019 spring semester.
Knake, the Law Center’s Director of Outcomes and
Assessments, Professor of Law and the Larry and Joanne
Doherty Chair in Legal Ethics, was awarded the Fulbright
Distinguished Chair in Entrepreneurship and Innovation
at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Fulbright
Distinguished Chair Awards are viewed as among the most
prestigious appointments in the Fulbright Scholar Program.
She will research Australian innovations in access to
justice and legal ethics from January through July as part of a
forthcoming book project, “Law Democratized: A Blueprint
for Access to Justice.”
“I’m incredibly humbled and thankful to be selected for
such an important international award, and I look forward
to sharing the amazing work we do at the University of
Houston with the global community of Fulbright scholars,”
said Knake. Her Fulbright award not only supports the
research and writing she will engage in during her time at
the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology but also public
lecture opportunities throughout Australia.
The award is designed to foster collaboration between
Australia and the United States to stimulate interest and
increase innovation and entrepreneurship.
Kumar, Law Foundation Professor of Law and co-director
of the Institute for Intellectual Property and Information
Law, was selected as a Fulbright-Schuman Research Scholar
and awarded an innovation grant. She will spend five months
in Europe, including four at the Max Planck Institute

Renee

KNAKE

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