Research Fellows
Professor Daniel Benoliel
Prof. Daniel Benoliel (LL.B, LL.M, J.S.D.) is the Vice-President-elect for Resource Management and Foreign Relations of the University of Haifa. He is a law professor at the University’s Faculty of Law and the Director of the Haifa Center of Law and Technology (HCLT).
Daniel’s main fields of expertise include intellectual property, law and economics, public international law, and entrepreneurship law. He holds a Doctorate in law (J.S.D.) from the UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) and has been a John M. Olin Research Fellow with the John M. Olin Center for Law and Economics at Berkeley and an alumnus of the Yale Law School Information Society Project (ISP). He was also a Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, at Munich Visiting Fellow, and a Post-Doctoral German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Residential Fellow with the Law and Economics Graduate College at the University of Hamburg, Germany.
He was an invited visiting professor and taught at various universities in Europe and America. These include the University of Oxford (2021 & 2022), University of Bologna (2018), Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (2010-2019), University of Masaryk (2014), University of Lucerne (2009), Hebrew University (2007, 2016), and Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV) in São Paulo (2009).
Benoliel received various prizes, awards, and research grants. These include the Israel Science Foundation (ISF) grants (2015-2017, 2018), the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions grant (2015), the University of Haifa Gishush grant (2010), the Harvard-Stanford Junior Faculty Forum award (2009), the Microsoft Research Award for best article (ALACDE, 2009), the John M. Olin Center for Law and Economics (2002-2004) grants, the 1st place article awards at both the 14th Computers, Freedom and Privacy Annual Conference (CFP 2004) & the 13th Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (TPRC 2002), and the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) grant (2002).
Benoliel authored and edited four books. These are Patent Intensity and Economic Growth (CUP, 2017) & (Chinese edition) (CUP & China National Publishing Foundation, 2023); Intellectual Property, Innovation, and Global Inequality (Daniel Benoliel, Peter Yu, Francis Gurry & Keun Lee, eds.) (CUP, 2024) (forthcoming), and Improbable Leaders: The Battle of Developing Countries for Access to Patented Medicines (with Bruno M. Salama) (FGV University Press, 2017) (in Portuguese).
Prof. Benoliel serves as legal advisor to the Zuckerman Institute, which supports academic research in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in the United States and Israel. In addition, he wrote legal opinions and advised high-tech companies traded on Nasdaq and many start-up companies in telecommunications, biosciences, software, e-commerce, and medical devices. Daniel is also a marathoner and an Ironman triathlete.
Graeme Dinwoodie is the Global Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law. From 2009-2018, he was the Professor of Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law at the University of Oxford, Director of the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre, and a professorial Fellow of St Peter's College.
Francis Gurry led WIPO as Director General from October 1, 2008 through September 2020.
Under his leadership, WIPO addressed major challenges. These included managing the stress on the international patent and copyright systems produced by rapid technological change, by globalization and increased demand; reducing the knowledge gap between developed and developing countries; and ensuring that the intellectual property (IP) system serves its fundamental purpose of encouraging creativity and innovation in all countries.
Lord Hoffmann read law at Queen’s (Vinerian Scholarship 1957) and was Stowell Civil Law Fellow at Univ from 1961-1973. He then practised at the Chancery Bar and was appointed a judge in 1985. From 1995 until 2009 he was a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and gave a number of leading judgments on patent law. He now practises as an international commercial arbitrator and gives seminars in Hilary Term on patent law for the FHS paper on intellectual property.