Dr Mireille van Eechoud: September 2009 - September 2012

Mireille van Eechoud is an associate professor at The Institute for Information Law (IViR), University of Amsterdam and teaches Information Law.

Her research focuses on international and European intellectual property law, especially copyright, related rights and database protection. Her most recent book in this field, co-authored with Hugenholtz et al. is Harmonizing European Copyright Law. The Challenges of Better Law Making(Kluwer Law International 2009).

Her doctoral thesis was entitled Choice of Law in Copyright and Related Rights, Alternatives to the Lex Protectionis (Kluwer Law International 2003) and the private international law aspect of information law has been a recurrent theme in her work. Mireille is a member of the European Max-Planck Group for Conflict of Laws in Intellectual Property (CLIP).

Mireille is the project leader of a multidisciplinary research project on creativity and collaborative authorship in copyright law (2010-2012). This collaborative research project funded by ESF/HERA, is a partnership between IViR, Infomedia (University of Bergen, Norway) and CIPIL. Her other current research includes the relationship between fundamental rights aspects of access to public sector information in relation to intellectual property rights and the commercial use of government information.