Intellectual Property: Migration

Nika Abkowicz-Bieńko (LLM in Intellectual Property and the Digital Economy) is a 2^nd year PhD student at the University of Glasgow. Her doctoral project focuses on the author’s right of translation and the practice of online unauthorised translation. It traces the historical development of the right of translation and its exceptions and examines historical and modern approaches governing the operation of cross-border publications in the absence or lack of effective enforcement of copyright protection. Her research interests include copyright, history, privacy, and the position of women.

Enrico Bonadio is Reader in Intellectual Property Law at City, University of London (The City Law School), where he teaches various modules on intellectual property law. He holds law degrees from the University of Florence (PhD) and the University of Pisa (LLB), and is Deputy Editor in Chief and Intellectual Property Correspondent of the European Journal of Risk Regulation.

Oren Bracha is the William C. Conner Chair in Law at the University of Texas, School of Law.  He is a legal historian and an intellectual property scholar. His fields of interest include intellectual property, legal history, law and technology, and private law theory. Bracha’s work focuses on intellectual property law, including both the history of the field and its contemporary institutional design, theory, and policy. His book, Owning Ideas: The Intellectual Origins of American Intellectual Property, 1790-1909, explores the history of the emergence of intellectual property in the United States during the long nineteenth century. It has been hailed as “a superb study of the transformation of American copyright and patent doctrine in the nineteenth century.... deeply researched, finely nuanced, and lucidly presented."

Gargi Chakrabarti is an Associate Professor, COE, and Director of Centre for Advocacy, Practice and Research on IP (CAPRIP) at DNLU, Jabalpur, India. She is a post-doctoral research fellow at Max Planck Institute of Innovation and Competition, Munich, Germany. She has done Ph.D. (NALSAR, Hyderabad), M.Phil. (NLS, Bangalore) & LL.M. in IPR (London, UK). She has 14 years of teaching experience, awarded WIPRO Earthian Prize (2014), and had lead role in many international/national projects. Her areas of interest: IPR, Cyber Law, Competition Law and Environment Law. She is Tutor for WIPO Academy Distance Learning Courses. She has 3 international scholarships & 40 publications in her credit and presented several research papers at international and national level.

Magali Contardi is a post-doc research fellow at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies (Italy) and intellectual property (IP) lawyer. She holds a PhD from the University of Alicante (Spain), law degrees from the University of Florence, Italy and the Catholic University of Argentina, a LLM in Intellectual Property law from the University of Alicante and post graduate degrees in Artificial Intelligence (AI) & IP from the University of Strasbourg, and in Business law and Public Manager from the University of Pisa.

Lauren Crais is a DPhil candidate investigating intellectual property theory in dialogue with cultural heritage law under the supervision of Dr Dev Gangjee at Oxford University. Her work theorizes the roles of authenticity, cultural heritage, and credit in elite British kitchen spaces to better understand how we might more effectively frame issues of cultural influence and inspiration. She was previously Head of Study for Law at Christie's Education London (in association with the Open University and the University of Glasgow). She is the external examiner for LLM modules in Art Law and Cultural Heritage and Property Law at the London School of Economics & Political Science. She frequently lectures at the LSE, Kingston University, and the Royal Academy of Arts, amongst others. She has been called to the Bar in California (2006) and before the United States Supreme Court (2016). Lauren earned her bachelor's degree in Art History with minors in Psychology and French from Duke University (NC, USA), her Juris Doctor from Georgetown University (Washington, DC), and her MSc from the University of Glasgow (Scotland, UK).

Naama Daniel is a research fellow at the Federmann Cyber Security Research Center – Cyber Law Program, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She has been working in the Israeli public sector since 2010 (currently on sabbatical). Naama managed numerous policy and legislation projects, such as the enactment of the new Israeli Designs Law of 2017, and represented Israel in various international forums. Naama is a guest lecturer and an invited speaker at various forums and academic courses, and presented her academic work at international conferences. She holds an LL.B (magna cum laude) and an LL.M (summa cum laude) from Tel-Aviv University.

Alexandra Dvorkin is a PhD student in the Art History Department at Tel Aviv University. In her MA thesis, Alexandra examined the political usage of botany by Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici. Under the supervision of Dr. Sefy Hendler from the Art History Department and Dr. Yuval Sapir from the School of Plant Sciences and Food Security, Alexandra’s doctoral dissertation focuses on printed and illustrated sixteenth-century herbals, identifying a phenomenon she calls ‘the fear of errors’. Alexandra is a recipient of the Dan David Prize Scholarship and the Rotenstreich Scholarship for Outstanding PhD Students in the Humanities.

Niva Elkin-Koren is a Professor of Law at Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law and a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. She is the academic director of the Chief Justice Meir Shamgar Center for Digital Law and Innovation, a co-director of the Algorithmic Governance Lab at TAU Innovation Lab (“TIL”) and a member of the Academic Management Committee of TAU Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science. Before joining Tel-Aviv University, she served as the Dean of the Law Faculty at the University of Haifa, and was the founding director of the Center for Cyber, Law and Policy (CCLP) and of the Haifa Center for Law & Technology (HCLT). Her research is located at the intersection between law and information technology, focusing on values in design, intellectual property, governance by AI and governance of AI.

Dave Fossum is an assistant professor of musicology in the School of Music, Dance and Theatre at Arizona State University. He researches creativity and intellectual property, focusing particularly on music in Turkey and Turkmenistan. His publications appear in journals including Ethnomusicology, Ethnomusicology Forum, Asian Music, and Analytical Approaches to World Music. His current book project examines how diverse music industry actors have experienced, debated, and shaped the dramatic reform of Turkey’s copyright system since the 1980s. The project especially focuses on the uneasy relationship between copyright and the genre of folk music. Fossum also plays guitar, Turkmen dutar, ud, and bağlama.

Alexander Hartley is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. His dissertation provides a comparative study of colonial copyright in the first half of the twentieth century, examining how writers in the British and French empires responded to the expanding legal frontier of copyright in shaping their self-presentation as authors. Beyond this project, he is broadly interested in twentieth-century culture and critical theory, and a second vein of his research focuses on ‘urban renewal’, race and the city in the poems and novels of Gwendolyn Brooks.

Aline Iramina is a Ph.D. student and researcher at University of Glasgow School of Law and UK Copyright and Creative Economy Centre (CREATe), with research thesis on “Copyright Governance by Algorithms: Towards a more transparent regime?”. She earned an LL.M degree in Intellectual Property Law at University College London (UCL). Aline is a Brazilian lawyer and civil servant in Brazil’s federal government (currently on leave), with experience working with copyright regulation at Brazil’s Copyright Office (Ministry of Culture of Brazil).

Barbara Lauriat is currently Visiting Associate Professor and Frank H. Marks Intellectual Property Fellow at George Washington University Law School. Previously, she was Senior Lecturer in Law at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London. She holds a J.D. from Boston University School of Law and a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford.

Diana Liebenau is a doctoral student and research assistant at the Chair of Professor Ansgar Ohly at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany. She is a fully qualified lawyer under German law (First State Exam, University of Bayreuth; Second State Exam, Munich Court of Appeals) and holds an LL.M. from Harvard Law School. She was a visiting researcher at Harvard Law School and Tel Aviv University. Her research focuses on the foundations of intellectual property law, the intellectual property/private law interface as well as the private law regulation of antisemitism. Besides law, she does daily yoga, tailors her own clothes and is interested in movies and art.

Nicola Lucchi is Serra Hunter Associate Professor of Comparative law at the University Pompeu Frabra of Barcelona (Spain). He holds law degrees from the University of Padua (PhD) and the University of Ferrara (LLB). Nicola research interests focus on comparative business law and policy and the interaction between law and innovation.

Vittoria Mastrandrea is a PhD candidate in the law department of the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research interrogates the construction of objects as ‘national treasures’ in the United Kingdom, with a focus on the changing legal, cultural and theoretical status of the object as it moves through this process of transition. Her thesis brings into play issues of personal property, intellectual property, administrative law and cultural theory. Vittoria has significant teaching experience in higher education, most recently as a guest lecturer on the Art Business MA at Kingston University. She has previously taught Art Law for the MSc Art, Law and Business programme at Christie’s Education, London and has guest lectured at the LSE. She is also the writer and presenter for the Christie’s Education Online ‘Art Law’ course. Her particular areas of interest include cultural heritage law, licensing and artists rights legislation (including intellectual property and resale rights), and the impact of Brexit on the legal frameworks governing the art market. Vittoria qualified as a solicitor in the UK in September 2015.

Yvonne Ndelle is a Queen Elizabeth Scholar and Postdoctoral Fellow with the Open African Innovation Research Network (Open AIR) at the Centre for Law, Technology and Society, University of Ottawa. Her research focuses on the international governance of digital sequence information (DSI) and the co-creation of value from DSI among diverse stakeholders in the agri-food supply chain. She holds a Master of Public Administration and a PhD in Public Policy from Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Saskatchewan. She also holds a BSc (Hons) degree in Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of Buea, Cameroon.

Neil Netanel holds the Pete Kameron Endowed Chair in Law at the University of California at Los Angeles School of Law. He writes and teaches in the areas of social media and democracy, copyright, trademark, and international intellectual property. His solo-authored books include Copyright’s Paradox (Oxford University Press, 2008); From Maimonides to Microsoft; The Jewish Law of Copyright Since the Birth of Print (Oxford University Press, 2016); and Copyright: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2018).

Shelly Pasternak is a PhD Candidate, at The Zvi Meitar Center for Advanced Legal Studies, The Buchmann Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University. She holds Bachelor of Law and Political Science degrees, and Masters of Law, all studied in Tel Aviv University. Her current research, under the supervision of Prof. Roy Kreitner and Prof. Anita L. Allen (University of Pennsylvania), titled ‘In Search for Jurisprudence of Self,’ focuses on the question of identity at the crossroads of the private and the public.

Maayan Perel is an Assistant Professor, at the Netanya Academic College, School of Law and a Senior Research Fellow at the Chief Justice Meir Shamgar Center for Digital Law and Innovation at Tel Aviv University. She holds an LL.M in Intellectual Property from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and an S.J.D from the University of Pennsylvania. She researches and publishes extensively on the intersection between Intellectual Property law, digital platforms and AI governance.

Federica Pezza is an Italian attorney at law specialising in Data Protection and Intellectual Property law and a PQ Trademark Attorney (UK), with experience in three jurisdictions (Italy, the UK and Spain) and currently working at PwC TLS (Milan). Aside from holding the CIPP/E Certification issued by the International Association of Privacy Practitioners (IAPP), she completed the Certificate in Trade Mark Law and Practice at Queen Mary University of London, where she had formerly graduated in the LLM program (IP) with a dissertation titled “Richard Prince Artwork: a Cultural Appropriation approach”. Federica is the author of several publications, most of which focus on the legal aspects of street art, crowdfunding in the art market and public art.

Franziska Rauh, MA; MSt (Oxon.), is a PhD candidate and research assistant at Gutenberg Institute for World Literature and Written Media, University of Mainz, Germany. She studied Comparative Literature, Catholic Theology and Jewish Studies at the universities of Mainz (Germany), Oxford (UK), and Freiburg (Germany). Her research focusses on the concept of rewriting as a literary strategy of dealing with canonical texts, with a focus on the ethical functions that re-telling a story already told might serve. Her further interests include narratology and theory of intertextuality.

Giovanni Maria Riccio is full professor of comparative law at the University of Salerno (Italy), where he teaches Comparative Copyright Law and Art Market Comparative Law. Former consultant of the EU Commission on the revision of the E-Commerce Directive, he is the author of the "Mapping report on national remedies against online piracy of sports content" published by the European Audiovisual Observatory of the Council of Europe. He is the author of more than 100 publications dealing with IP and IT law (recently editor of the book “Copyright and Fundamental Rights in the Digital Age. A Comparative Analysis in Search of a Common Constitutional Ground” Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020). He has worked in several European Universities (Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre; Birbeck College – University of London; University of Grenoble “Joseph Fourier”; Moscow State University). Attorney at law, he is the founder and partner of ELex Law Firm (Rome) and chairman of the board of directors of LEA, the first Italian private copyright collecting society.

Zvi S. Rosen is an Assistant Professor and early career scholar at the Southern Illinois University School of Law.  He has served as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University and as a Visiting Scholar and Professorial Lecturer in Law at George Washington University School of Law. In 2015-2016, he was the Abraham L. Kaminstein Scholar in Residence at the U.S. Copyright Office.  Mr. Rosen received his J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law in 2005 and LLM in Intellectual Property in 2006 from the George Washington University Law School. He has practiced at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP as well as smaller firms and his own practice, and clerked for the Hon. Thomas B. Bennett of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Alabama.  He has written extensively on the development of modern copyright and trademark law, as well as on bankruptcy law.

Cristiana Sappa is Associate Professor of Business Law at IESEG School of Management, Lille & Paris, France, where she teaches IP to different audiences. Her research focuses on IP, and more precisely her main research track is related to the interferences between copyright and open data regimes in the cultural heritage sector. She publishes in English, French and Italian. She is currently in the sub-group of the expert group on the common European data space for cultural heritage. She served as project manager of a European Thematic Network on the re-use of public sector information (LAPSI and LAPSI 2.0) and has several punctual experiences as an external expert in different UN Agencies. She qualified to the French bar (EFB).

Narendran Thiruthy is Assistant Professor at Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. During the Spring semester, he teaches ‘Copyright in Global Information Age’ and ‘Music and Entertainment Law’. He teaches ‘Advanced Theories of Intellectual Property’ and ‘Trademark and Designs’ in the Autumn Semester. Before joining the faculty of IIT Kharagpur, he served as the head of IPR Section in the National Biodiversity Authority, Government of India. He has both theoretical expertise and administrative experience in the field of IPR and Biodiversity governance. Dr.Narendran coordinated the ‘Module on Biodiversity Governance’ for IFS Probationers in Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy, Dehradun for 2018, 2019, 2020 & 2021. He was the officer in-charge of coordinating the India Biodiversity Awards for IBA 2018 & IBA 2021 cycles and the NBA-UNDP Biodiversity Samrakshan Internship Program in 2019-20 & 2020-21. He has represented the government in many bilateral and multilateral meetings. Narendran’s research explores the intersection of law, technology and the environment. His research areas include IP Philosophy, Protection of Cultural Property, IP procedure, IP Business models, New Technology Developments and IP, Theories of Creativity, Biodiversity Governance etc.