Vital new School of Law research group to advance research on technology, governance and IP law
The School of Law is delighted to announce the formation of the Technology, Governance and IP Law Group.
Embedded within the Centre for Business Law and Practice (CBLP), the Technology, Governance and Intellectual Property Law Group (TGIPG) provides a central point for the School of Law’s outstanding research and teaching in Intellectual Property and Cyber Law and areas related to information and emerging technologies. It also advances the aims of CBLP’s research theme of Information Technologies Regulation.
TGIPG brings together a growing number of scholars specialising or engaging with the impact of emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Blockchain-based technologies (Metaverse, NFTs, Cryptocurrencies, Web3, etc.), gene-editing and related disruptive technologies upon Intellectual Property and IT.
Tackling technological challenges
They seek to address the challenges of technological disruptions on law, regulation, justice and related institutions and disciplines, from the way new digital technologies are challenging traditional IP law, to the even greater challenges that AI and Internet regulation pose.
Their research extends from the IP impact upon access to information and medicines, to the justice and rights of indigenous and disadvantaged groups, from agricultural foodstuffs and traditional knowledge, to new digital platforms spurred by Blockchain-based technologies and the Metaverse.
The group’s founder and co-lead, Cesar Ramirez-Montes, says:
We are delighted to be one of the very few leading universities in the country with a large number of IP and Technology scholars and the launch of the TGIPG will undoubtedly accelerate the School’s ambition to become a leading centre of scholarship in the legal regulation of disruptive technologies such as AI.
Experts
- Amaka Vanni (International Economic Law; Intellectual Property Law; Law and Development; Global Governance)
- Ioanna Lapatoura (Intellectual property; Copyright; Trade marks; Designs; IT law; Technology Law; AI; Creative industries; Online platforms)
- Andrea Zappalaglio (Trade Marks, Unfair Competition Law, IP and Sustainability, Greenwashing, and History of Intellectual Property)
- Igor Szpotakowski (Intellectual Property Law; Law and Technology, Artificial Intelligence (AI) Regulation; Data Protection; Comparative Law; Private Law; Chinese Law; Roman Law)
- Graham Dutfield (Intellectual property; trade & sustainable development; health; law & regulation of food, agriculture & gene technology innovation; traditional knowledge & cultures; bioprospecting; Indigenous Peoples)
- Subhajit Basu (Law and Technology, Regulation of Emerging technologies, Cyberspace, AI, Big Data, Health data, Autonomous systems; Online Harm; Data protection; Privacy)
- Kinfe Yilma (law and technology; privacy and data protection law; AI governance; platform governance; cybersecurity law)
- Rebecca Moosavian (Article 8 ECHR privacy right; Article 10 ECHR free expression right; misuse of private information; image rights; copyright; prerogative power; judicial review; Iraq war; critical legal theories)
- Cesar Ramirez-Montes (Intellectual Property Law and Technology Regulation, Human Rights, Digital Platforms, Competition Law, Copyright and Disability Rights, Brands and Freedom of Expression, Emerging Technologies, Data Protection, AI-impact on IP, Global South)
How to get involved
The TGIPG is keen to support and supervise LLM/PhD research projects in any IP and Technology-related areas. It also welcomes postdoctoral and visiting scholars in any of these areas. Do please contact any member of the TGIPG if you are considering the start of your adventure towards, or the consolidation of, a career in research.
Please contact the group’s founder and co-lead, Cesar Ramirez-Montes, if you require further information about this group: c.j.ramirez-montes@leeds.ac.uk.
