Andrea Zappalaglio

Profile

I joined the School of Law in 2025. I previously worked as Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law at the University of Sheffield and Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition (Munich, Germany), having completed a DPhil at the University of Oxford.

After conducting research on the interrelations between International Trade and Intellectual Property, I then focused on quality and origin labels, becoming internationally recognised as an expert in the Law of Geographical Indications and Special Marks. My work has been acknowledged by the European Commission as one of the 'sources of evidence and data' used to devise the recent reform of EU Law in this area, and a study to which I contributed is cited in the Explanatory Memorandum of the new Regulation 2023/2411. I also served as an advisor for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation and various national governments and as a consultant for several public and private stakeholders.

My scholarship is award-winning and published in all the top UK and EU IP Journals. My research and impact activities have been funded by UKRI and the Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures (University of Sheffield).

I sit in the editorial board of the Journal of Law, Market and Innovation; NUJS Journal of Regulatory Studies and Lex Revolution. I am guest reviewer for GRUR International (Oxford University Press) and the Journal of Common Market Studies (Wiley). I have peer reviewed articles for more than fifteen top EU and UK journals.

Research interests

Trade Marks, Unfair Competition Law, IP and Sustainability, Greenwashing, and History of Intellectual Property.

Qualifications

• Advance HE Fellowship

Professional memberships

• European Community Trademarks Association (ECTA), Committee Member
• Association of European Regions for Products of Origin (AREPO), Fellow and Member of the Scientific Committee
• Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP), Member

Student education

I lecture in ‘Trade Marks, Geographical Indications, Designs and Trade Secrets’; ‘Intellectual Property Management’ and other IP-related modules