Past Academic Visitors
Academic visitors usually join us when on a sabbatical to enable then to make use of our resources to facilitate their research. Our past visitors have undertaken a diverse range of IP research projects undertaken. If you're interested in joining us as an academic visitor please visit the Visitors Programme page to find out more and how to apply.
Prof. Uma Suthersanen (2024)
Professor Suthersanen holds a Chair in Global Intellectual Property Law. Uma gained her degrees in law from the National University of Singapore (LL.B) and Queen Mary University of London (LL.M and PhD). Having begun her academic career at Queen Mary (Herchel Smith Research Fellow & Financial Times Law & Tax Fellowship), she was the Director of Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute (2021-2024), following her Deputy Directorship. (2019-2021). She was a member for the Law Unit of Assessment (sub-panel 18) for the national Research Excellence Framework, REF 2021. Professor Suthersanen has served as a consultant and given evidence to international and regional bodies including WIPO, UNESCO, UNCTAD, European Parliament, European Commission, and the Governments of Israel and Singapore.
Her current research is focussing on synoptic and interdisciplinary aspects of intellectual property law and policy as a whole, with a focus on traditional knowledge.
Prof. Dr. Cyrill Rigamonti (2024)
Professor Cyrill Rigamonti is a tenured professor at the University of Bern, where he teaches intellectual property and competition law, and also serves as Chair of the Department for Economic Law and as Faculty Director of the Center for the Law of Innovation and Competition (CLIC). He is also the President of the Swiss Copyright Tribunal.
Professor Rigamonti is a graduate of Harvard Law School (S.J.D.), Georgetown University Law Center (LL.M.), and the University of Zurich (J.D./Ph.D.) and is admitted to practice in New York and Switzerland. He also earned a habilitation from the University of Bern. He was the first legal scholar to be awarded the Prix Jubilé from the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences. His writing has also earned him the Mancini and Addison Brown prizes from Harvard Law School.
Prof. Isabella Alexander (August - December 2023)
Professor Isabella Alexander focuses on IP and art, undertaking research, whilst a visitor to the OIPRC, on her project titled 'Hacking Copyright in the 21st Century: Art, Law, History and Technology'.
Prof. Juan Antonio Vives Valles (January 2023 - November 2023)
Juan Antonio Vives-Vallés is Professor contratado doctor interino at the Department of Private Law of the University of the Balearic Islands, and Researcher at the Department of Agrifood Production and Protection of the Agri-Environmental and Water Economics Institute (Palma, Spain).
As a researcher, he specializes on cross-cutting research between agronomy/live sciences and law, mainly focusing on Intellectual Property in agriculture and other related topics.
Dr. Xioren Wang (May - September 2023)
During her academic visit at Oxford, she completed a quantitative study on colour trade mark depletion, analysing 858 single-colour trade marks in the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) database.
Dr. Titilayo Adebola (May - July 2023)
Dr Titilayo Adebola research expertise lies in international economic law with a focus on intellectual property rights, food, agriculture, environment, technology and gender. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Prof. Cathay Smith (August 2022 - July 2023)
Prof. Jing Jing Hu (2021 - 2023)
Prof. Raman Mittal (2021 - 2022)