Notes on Contributors
Daniel Acquah
is a Postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Law, University of Turku, and a Senior Research Associate at the Institute for European Studies (IES), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). He has master’s degrees in criminology and Criminal Justice (Glasgow), in law (Turku) and double doctoral degrees in law (Turku, Brussels). Acquah has spent research periods at leading intellectual property and European Union law research sites such as the Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI), University of Strasbourg, France, and the IES, Brussels. He is a frequent speaker at international conferences and seminars. In April 2013, he was an Erasmus visiting scholar at the University of Szeged, Hungary, where he taught a comparative law course. He has been a visiting lecturer at the University of Eastern Finland since spring 2015, and also, a guest teacher at the Hanken School of Economics since 2016. He also teaches intermittently at the IES. Acquah supervises and co-supervise masters and bachelor students working on topics linked to his research interest. He has published in reputable European and international journals relating to his area of research interest.
Ainee Binti Adam
is the Deputy Dean (Research) at the Faculty of Law, University of Malaya, a position she was appointed to in April 2019. She completed her doctoral degree in 2014 at the Faculty of Law, Monash University Australia. In 2015, she took up the position as a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Law and Business at the National University of Singapore. She returned in 2016 to resume her duties as Senior Lecturer. In 2019, she spent two months at Nankai University as a Confucius Institute Visiting Scholar to work on her research project. Her current research interests lie in researching the history of intellectual property rights and exploring Asian theories and philosophies to provide an alternative view/solution on contemporary intellectual property rights issues. Ainee has published several articles in journals including the Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property, European Intellectual Property Review and the Hong Kong Law Journal. Her most recent article, ‘Pricing and Profiting in Copyright: An Introduction to Islamic Perspective’, is published in the Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property. She is also currently the Project Leader for the team from the University of Malaya for an Erasmus Project with eight other Asian and European partners.
Louise Duncan
Barrister of Law, Melbourne, has obtained a Ph.D. in Law from Monash University (1998). She was previously a Research Fellow and Lecturer in the Law Schools of both the University of Melbourne and Monash University. She is the author of The Role of Theoretical Debate in the Evolution of National and International Patent Protection: From the French Revolution to the Paris Convention of 1883 (Brill, 2021). Since 1998 she has been practising as a barrister in Australia, specialising in commercial litigation. Her main practice has been in the Federal Court of Australia, where she has had extensive experience in trials and appeals. The matters in which she has appeared include all aspects of patents, trade marks, designs and copyright law. She has also been briefed to appear in several disciplinary proceedings before the Professional Standards Board for Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys.
Johanna Gibson
is Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law, Academic Director of the Intellectual Property Law LLM and the Deputy Director of the Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS). She is also Editor-In-Chief of the Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property (QMJIP). She has consulted widely to industry, government, NGO s and practitioners, and has been a visiting professor to institutions around the world. Johanna’s research interests are in intellectual property and the creative industries, particularly fashion and film, and animal welfare law and critical animal studies. She publishes widely, including her most recent book: Owned, an Ethological Jurisprudence of Property: From the Cave to the Commons (Routledge, 2020).
Phillip Johnson
is a Professor of Commercial Law at Cardiff University and a practising barrister. He has written extensively on intellectual property law and legal history and is the editor of the Intellectual Property Quarterly and a member of the Advisory Council on National Records and Archives. His books include Roughton, Johnson and Cook on Patents (2nd to 5th Ed), Parliament, Inventions and Patents (2018) and Privatised Law Reform: A History of Patent Law through Private Legislation (2017).
Jyh-An Lee
is a Professor and Executive Director of the Centre for Financial Regulation and Economic Development (CFRED) at the Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law. Professor Lee has been featured on ABC News, BBC News, Bloomberg News, Financial Times, Fortune, South China Morning Post and Wall Street Journal as an expert on intellectual property and Internet law. His works have been cited by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and U.K. High Court of Justice. Before starting his academic career, he was a practicing lawyer in Taiwan, specializing in technology and business transactions.
Yangzi Li
is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Faculty of Law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include intellectual property law, technology law, and artificial intelligence (AI) policies. Her works have appeared in peer-review journals, such as the European Intellectual Property Review, GRUR International (OUP), Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice (OUP), etc.
P. Sean Morris
is a Research Scholar at the Faculty of Law University of Helsinki and an Affiliated Research Fellow at the Erik Castren Institute of International Law and Human Rights, University of Helsinki, Finland. Sean’s research is in the fields of public international law and intellectual property rights. He has written extensively in both areas. Sean is the editor of two recent volumes on the Advisory Committee of Jurists (ACJ): Transforming the Politics of International Law: The Advisory Committee of Jurists and the Formation of the World Court in the League of Nations (Routledge, 2021); The League of Nations and the Development of International Law: A New Intellectual History of the Advisory Committee of Jurists (Routledge, 2021). His most recent articles on intellectual property rights are, ‘Chorzow Factory: Intellectual Property and the Continuity of International Law in Investor-State Dispute Settlement’ 10(2) Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property 179–199 (2020); ‘The Contemporary Ideological Legitimacy of Global Intellectual Property Rights’ 2020 Intellectual Property Quarterly 44–73 (2020).
Péter Munkácsi
is an IP expert at the senior level at the Ministry of Justice, Budapest. He obtained a Bachelor of Law from Eötvös Lóránd University, Budapest. He gained his LL.M. degree in 1993 from Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg and a second LL.M. degree was awarded by European University Institute (EUI), Florence, in 1998. From September 2021 he is a PhD researcher at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. He is author of more than 50 scientific publications relating copyright and IP issues in Hungarian and English, the latest is: ‘Moral Rights and Cultural Aspects of Hungarian Copyright Law 1945–2000’ in: Mira T Sundara Rajan (ed.): Cambridge Handbook of Intellectual Property In Central and Eastern Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2019).
Zvi S. Rosen
is an Assistant Professor at the Southern Illinois University School of Law. He holds a J.D. from the Northwestern University School of Law and a LLM in Intellectual Property Law from the George Washington University School of Law. Prior to this he was the Abraham L. Kaminstein Scholar in Residence at the United States Copyright Office, and has taught at law schools including The Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University, the George Washington University School of Law, the University of New Hampshire School of Law, and New York Law School. He also was an Assistant Chief Counsel for Advocacy at the U.S. Small Business Administration focused on IP and trade policy for small businesses. His research focuses on the development of U.S. copyright and trademark law from its origins through today.
Devanshi Saxena
is a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Antwerp. She works as University teaching assistant and researcher in the area of Intellectual property law. Her interests lie at the intersection of human rights law, sustainable development and intellectual property law.
Johannes Thumfart
is a Senior Researcher at the research group LSTS (Law, Science, Technology and Society) of Vrije Universiteit Brussels. He has taught or held research positions at Université Paris VIII, Berlin School of Economics and Law, Freie Universität Berlin, Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico-City and University of Cincinnati. He is the co-editor of Pensar Internet (2016), one of the first Mexican anthologies about the political theory of digital technology.
Esther van Zimmeren
is Associate Professor in Intellectual Property (IP) Law and Governance at the Faculty of Law of the University of Antwerp and a member of the Research Groups Government and Law and Business and Law.