College Contact Details
Room: H6 (Gibbs Building), King's
Tel: +44 1223 76712
Professor of Law; Co-Director of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL); Fellow and Director of Studies (King's College)
Interests
My research, teaching and expert advice focuses on International and European Intellectual Property (IP) protection and development issues, World Trade and Investment Law; as well as on interfaces among different legal regimes and private orders in international law (see THE PROTECTION OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN INTERNATIONAL LAW, Oxford University Press, 2016 and THE PROTECTION OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS UNDER INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT LAW, OUP 2020). In this context, I am particularly interested in broader interface between law, automation and technology, and in particular the global regulation of and private ordering by online platforms. Recently, I have also embarked on projects related to questions of responsibility for historic wrongs and injustices, in particular related to transatlantic chattel slavery. Some of my publications are available online.
Dear prospective PhD students with an interest in research on International, European, UK IP, trade and investment Law, and/or related private ordering: The Faculty welcomes applications to undertake doctoral research across all fields of legal scholarship, including those within my own field of research. For further details of the Faculty’s application process, please see: https://www.law.cam.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate-research
I try to maximize the practical impact of my research: For many years, I have been serving as a legal expert for the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and for other international organizations with a focus on on tailoring IP law and policy to suit the domestic economic, social, and technological environment (see for example the UN ESCAP Handbook on Negotiating Development Oriented Provisions in Trade and Investment Agreements. I also advise NGOs as well as developing- and developed country governments on international IP, trade and investment law.
CV / Biography
After working at the Universities of Muenster (Germany), Leicester (UK), and the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich, I joined the University of Cambridge in 2013. At Cambridge I am a Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL), a Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, and Director of Studies and Fellow at King’s College, Cambridge.
Outside Cambridge, I have been appointed as Global Hauser Visiting Professor at New York University (NYU) for 2024, and have had various visiting appointments, including as Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Studies at Munich University (LMU) in 2021, at the Weizenbaum Institute in Berlin in 2020, as a Visiting Professor at Australian National University (2018-2019) and had been elected as Distinguished Fellow at the Hanken School of Economics (Helsinki) for 2016 and 2017. I also served as an external research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich (Germany) from 2013-2022; and am a Fellow at McLaughlin College, York University, Toronto (Canada) as well as at the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (McGill University, Montreal).
I am passionate about a contextual and critical approach to teaching International, European and UK IP Law. At Cambridge, I teach and supervise International, European and UK IP Law, as well as WTO Law and IP aspects of Global Governance.
For many years now, I have been teaching International IP Law and Policy at institutions such as:
- the Munich Intellectual Property Law Centre (MIPLC),
- the Universities of Oxford, Berlin, Strasbourg (CEIPI) and Alicante,
- Australian National University (Canberra), and
- the Hanken School of Economics (Helsinki).
I am a member of the editorial board of the World Trade Institute (WTI) Advanced Studies Series and co-founder of the international IP network at the Society of International Economic Law (SIEL).
Prior to joining the University of Cambridge in 2013, I have held various permanent and visiting faculty positions in academia in Europe, the Americas and Asia: I worked as as a senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law (2007-2013), as a lecturer in international trade law at the University of Leicester (2005-2007) and a research fellow on IT and Media Law at the University of Muenster, Germany (1999-2005). Next to my recent monograph on THE PROTECTION OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN INTERNATIONAL LAW (OUP, 2016), and an earlier monograph on European and International IP Law (Peter Lang, 2004), I have published widely in peer-reviewed international academic journals, edited volumes and research handbooks, as well as policy papers and reports for International Organizations and NGOs (with some of my publications available online at http://ssrn.com/author=1144871).
I have been a visiting scholar on WTO-, international trade- and IP law at Universities in Islamabad, Pakistan (2004-2005), Frankfurt, Germany (2007), and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2011). I also taught IP and international economic law at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) and at the International Max Planck Research School for Competition and Innovation (IMPRS CI).
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