Patrick Goold: September 2011; August - September 2012

Patrick completed his LL.B. at Newcastle University in 2008 and his LL.M. at Cornell Law School in 2009. His thesis was on antitrust history. Whilst at Cornell he worked as a part-time researcher for the law faculty and sat on the editorial board of the Cornell International Law Journal. He was admitted to the New York State Bar Association in 2010. Since October 2009 he has been a scholarship holder and PhD candidate of the International Max Planck Research School for Competition and Innovation supervised by Prof. Dr. Reto M. Hilty. His doctoral studies use historical and formalistic methodologies in order to better understand current copyright law. In addition to his doctoral studies, Patrick is interested in examining the interplay between IP law and the general principles of private law.