Michael Blakeney
is Winthrop Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law, uwa. He has held academic positions at a number of Universities in Australia and the UK and formerly worked in the Asia Pacific Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organization. He is an arbitrator with the International Court of Arbitration.
Enrico Bonadio
is Reader in Law at City, University of London. He teaches, researches, and advises in the field of intellectual property (ip) law. His research agenda is wide-ranging, having recently focused on the intersection between ip and technology and ip protection of non-conventional forms of creativity, amongst other areas. Enrico has been delivering classes and talks in more than 130 universities and research institutions in six continents.
Patricia Covarrubia
is a Reader in Law at The University of Buckingham and an ip consultant at the Latin America ipr sme Helpdesk, co-funded by the EU Commission. She holds an llm in European Law and PhD in Intellectual Property. Previously, she worked at the University of Brunel teaching ip Law and European Law. She has worked at bpp, School of Law, London where she was EU leader tutor for the Graduate Diploma in Law (gdl). She taught in Bucks New University and in Holborn College, North Greenwich where she ran Liverpool John Moores, Wales University and London University programmes.
Christine Haight Farley
is a Professor of Law at American University Washington College of Law where she serves as Co-Faculty Director of the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property and teaches Intellectual Property, Trademark Law, Contracts, Art Law, and Advertising law. Her scholarship has focused on the international aspects of intellectual property law, conflicts between intellectual property rights and freedom of expression, intellectual property lawâs treatment of art, and the expansion of intellectual property rights. She has been a visiting professor at Boston University, the University of Paris West, the University of Puerto Rico, the University of Havana, Monash University, and the National Law University in Lucknow, India, and serves on the Board of Directors for the Center for Inter-American Legal Education.
is a Scholar at c-ip2 and an Associate Professor of Law at Faulkner Universityâs Thomas Goode Jones School of Law. With a background in both law and sociology, Lauraâs research and teaching interests include: law & religion; economic sociology; social theory; the history and development of intellectual property; and historical sociology.
Giacomo Gabbuti
is a Assistant Professor at the Institute of Economics, Scuola Superiore SantâAnna, Pisa. He was awarded a DPhil in Economic and Social History at the University of Oxford His research focus on economic inequality, social mobility and wellbeing in Modern Italian history, with a focus on the Fascist period.
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, ngos and practitioners, and has been a visiting professor to institutions around the world, including the Queensland University of Technology (Australia), Monash University (Australia), the University of Toronto (Canada) and the Institute of Musical Research (School of Advanced Studies, UK). Johannaâs research interests are in intellectual property and the creative industries, particularly fashion and film, and animal welfare law and companion animal behaviour and science.
Phillip Johnson
is a Professor of Commercial Law at Cardiff University. He has written extensively on intellectual properrty history, including Privatised Law Reform: A History of Patent Law through Private Legislation (Routledge 2017), Parliament, Inventions and Patents: A Research Guide and Bibliography (Routledge 2018) and Booksellersâ Bill 1774 Legislating in the 18th Century: A view from Sir Henry Cavendishâs Parliamentary Diary (Wiley 2022).
Ekaterina Kirsanova
is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law/ School of Digital Law and Bio-Law, Higher School of Economics Moscow. She completed her doctoral studies at the Moscow State University including a residential programme in
Anat Lior
is an ai Schmidt Visiting Scholar and Lecturer in Global Affairs with the Jackson School at Yale, and a Yale Affiliated fellow at the Yale Information Society Project. Her research interests include ai governance and liability, the intersection of insurance and emerging technologies and intellectual property law.
P. Sean Morris
is a Research Scholar in the Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki and an Affiliated Fellow at the Erik Castren Institute of International Law and Human Rights, University of Helsinki. Sean is a generalist international lawyer and works in international intellectual property, legal history and contemporary practices of international law.
Alessandro Nuvolari
is Professor of Economic History and Director of the Institute of Economics at Scuola Superiore SantâAnna. He was educated at Bocconi University, Milan, Italy and at Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands, where he received a PhD in Economics.
Emmanuel Kolawole Oke
is a Senior Lecturer in International Intellectual Property Law at Edinburgh Law School. His research interests include international and comparative aspects of intellectual property law. Specifically, his research explores the interface between intellectual property and other branches of international law such as international trade law, international investment law, and international human rights law.
Véronique Pouillard
is Professor of Modern International History at the Institute for Archaeology, Conservation, and History, University of Oslo. She research and has published books and articles in business and economic history, with focus on topics including the media, fashion, and the history of intellectual property rights. She is the author of Paris to New York: The Transatlantic Fashion Industry in the Twentieth Century, Harvard University Press, 2021. She is also the co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Luxury Business, Oxford University Press, 2021.
is a Student of Law at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi, India. She has a background of internships in different facets of commercial law at practice area-specific and full-service law firms. She has also worked on multiple research projects and authored publications dealing with emerging legal issues in the fields of Arbitration, Intellectual Property Rights and Technology law.
Anele Simon
is a legal researcher who earned her ll.b degree from the University of Pretoria and an llm in International Trade and Investment Law from the Catholic University of Lyon, France. Her research focuses on international Intellectual Property (ip) law and international trade law. She currently serves as the Secretary General of the Independent Continental Youth Advisory Council on the AfCFTA (icoyaca).
Caterina Sganga
is Professor of Comparative Private Law at Scuola Superiore SantâAnna since August 2024. She joined SantâAnna as an Associate Professor in October 2018. Prior to her appointment at Santâ Anna, she was Assistant and later Associate Professor of Law at the Department of Legal Studies and Department of Economics and Business of Central European University (ceu, 2012â2018). She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Private Law from SantâAnna, an ll.m. from Yale Law School, and an ll.b. and J.D. from University of Pisa.
Noppanun Supasiripongchai
is an Associate Professor of Business Law, School of Law, University of Phayao, Thailand. He holds a Ph.D. in Law from University of Edinburgh, an LL.M. in Intellectual Property Law from Australian National University, an LL.M. in Commercial Law from Monash University and an LL.B. from Bangkok University.
Masabumi Suzuki
is a Professor, Faculty of Law, Waseda University, Tokyo Japan. He is a leading expert on Japanese and international intellectual property law, and published a number of works in both English and Japanese. He was for several years an official at the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.
is the Dean and Professor of Law at the Harry Radzyner School of Law, Reichman University (idc), Herzliya, Israel. Prof. Zemer is the Founder and Director of the ma Program in Law, Technology and Business Innovation, an innovative and multidisciplinary program bridging between law, science, technology and business innovation for both law and non-law graduates.