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Professor Zahr Said has been appointed as the new faculty director of the ������Ƶ’s renowned . CASRIP, which flourished under the long-term leadership of Professor Toshiko Takenaka, is home to the law school’s academic programs and scholarly leadership in intellectual property, technology, innovation and entrepreneurship. In appointing Professor Said, Dean Kellye Testy celebrated her as “an exciting scholar and talented leader” who is “deeply respected by academics and policy-makers alike.” 

CASRIP works domestically and globally to link law and policy to the innovation economy. One of its most successful recent collaborations is the Tech Policy Lab, a joint initiative of the UW School of Law, the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, and the Information School. ������Ƶ Professor Ryan Calo, one of the Lab’s co-directors, called Said “the perfect person to build on CASRIP’s incredible momentum in leading the national conversation around law and technology at the highest level.”

Professor Sean O’Connor has led CASRIP for the past several years, during which it hosted the Asia Pacific IP Forum as well as the national Works-in-Progress IP Colloquium () and expanded its focus on innovation and entrepreneurship. Also the founder of CASRIP’s Entrepreneurial Law Clinic, which has helped launch hundreds of new business ventures throughout the Northwest, O’Connor noted that he was “thrilled that Said has stepped up to lead CASRIP because her deep understanding of IP and innovation law will be an invaluable asset.”

In addition to its research and teaching activities, CASRIP also sponsors many notable events, such as the annual , the , and the Shidler Lecture.

“I'm eager to continue to make CASRIP even greater than its many individual strengths,” said Said, “so that we can make even deeper contributions to wise law and policy as technological innovations advance ever more quickly into most every area of our lives.”