Palmira Granados
Mexican Lawyer and Ph.D Candidate at the Faculty of Law, McGill University, Quebec, Canada
Palmira Granados is a lawyer specialized in intellectual property and information technologies and a Ph.D candidate at the Faculty of Law at McGill University. She obtained her law degree from la Escuela Libre de Derecho in Mexico and her masters from the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto. Before joining the D.C.L. program at McGill University, she practiced with a Mexican leading law firm in intellectual property and information technology related matters in conjunction with American, Canadian, European, and Latin American law firms. She was also responsible for teaching Law and Public Policy at the Faculty of Law at the Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico. She has also been closely involved with the Free Software Foundation and Creative Commons Mexico.
She currently focuses her doctorate studies in the intersection between patents, human genetic information, and indigenous communities.