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Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law

 

Email

lb329@cam.ac.uk

Faculty Contact Details

Room: S15

Tel: 01223 762876

College Contact Details

Room: Room 2, 13 Park Terrace

Tel: 01223 331795

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Professor of Intellectual Property Law (Herchel Smith)

B.A. Law 1986 (University of Cambridge)

CV / Biography

Born July 2, 1964.

Formerly Lecturer in Law, University of Keele; Professor of Law, King's College, London.

Yong Shook Lin Visiting Professor, National University of Singapore (2007); Visiting Professor of European Law, Columbia University (2008); Visiting Distinguished Professor, University of Toronto (2014); Visiting Professor, University Technology, Sydney (2019).

Associate Tenant, 11 South Square, Gray's Inn (www.11southsquare.com)

Editor-in-Chief, Cambridge Law Journal

Series Editor, Cambridge Intellectual Property and Information Law. Editorial Board, European Intellectual Property Review; Editorial Board, Intellectual Property Quarterly (2022-); Media and Arts Law Review.

Former General Editor, International Copyright Law and Practice (New York: Lexis-Nexis, annually updated) 2013-2021, 2013 (with Paul Geller), 2014-2019 (as sole General Editor), 2019-2021 (with Burton Ong)

Member, European Copyright Society (Chair, 2015-16) (www.europeancopyrightsociety.org)

Founding Director, International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property (www.ishtip.org)

Co-director, Primary Sources on Copyright (www.copyrighthistory.org)

Advisory Board, Institute of Brands and Innovation Law, UCL; Osgoode Hall IP Programme. Honorary Legal Advisor, Royal Historical Society.

Selected publications