Our Team

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Our team at the School of Law includes experts in various areas like platform regulation, cybersecurity, privacy, e-governance, e-commerce, international IP, copyright, patents, trademarks, designs, and trade secrets. Together, we strive to build a research centre that will enhance the visibility and reputation of the School of Law at Queen's University Belfast in the field of IT/IP law. You can follow the links to their individual research pages to read more about their interests, publications and ongoing projects.

Staff member	Specialist areas
Dr Elisabeth Agnew	platform regulation, content moderation online, cyberbullying, sexting, online harmful sexual behaviours and issues of consent, children’s rights, youth justice
Dr Jocelyn Bosse	intellectual property and agriculture, plant varieties, traditional knowledge, international IP law, IP and development, IP and green economy
Prof Norma Dawson	intellectual property law, trademark law, cultural property law, and legal history
Dr Peter Doran	IP and green economy, IP and sustainability, environmental law, climate emergency, the commons and communing, the wellbeing economy, law and the Pluriverse
Dr Mark Flear	global health, health law, medical law, EU law, biomedical research, equitable access to research findings and new medicines and vaccines, bioethics, epistemic justice
Prof Giancarlo Frosio	international IP law, IP law, IP and fundamental rights, history and economics of creativity/innovation, IP theories and justifications, copyright, digital copyright, trademark, patents, IP enforcement, IP enforcement online, platform regulation, law and technology, AI and the law, EU law
Dr Alessandra Guida	patent law, biotech law, health law, global health, IP and green economy, sustainable development and biosafety, environment law, agriculture law, international trade law, new technologies and their impact on human health and the environment
Dr Ciara Hackett	business and human rights, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility
Dr Pratyush Nath Upreti	international IP law, IP law, IP law and economic development, IP and international investment law, IP and global health, IP and global south/Asian legal studies, copyright, trademark, patents, trade secrets, international trade
Dr Eugene Lim	international and comparative IP law, copyright, trademarks, unfair competition, patents, biotechnology law and policy, law and technology
Prof Marek Martyniszyn	international economic law, competition law and policy, antitrust Law, international cooperation in competition law, competition and innovation, competition and technology, competition and IP law
Professor Billy Melo Araujo	International IP law, trade and policy, UK trade law, WTO law, EU external trade relations law, international investment law, foreign relations law
Prof John Morison	law and technology, AI and the law, automated decision making
Prof Therese Murphy	human rights, health and human rights, global health law, health law and ethics, science, technology and human rights,
Dr Ciarán O’Kelly	law and technology, AI and the law, business and human rights, corporate social responsibility, computational approaches to the study of company law, corporate responsibility and corporate governance
Ethan Shattock	platform and social media regulation, regulation of disinformation and hate speech freedom of expression online, artificial intelligence and the law
Dr Liam Sunner	international and comparative IP law, IP law, EU law, law and music, copyright, digital copyright, law and technology
Dr Paulina Wilson	Comparative (Tort and Criminal) Law; Global Law Practice, Communication and Innovation; Entrepreneurship and IP Law; Regulation of New Technologies
Dr Zi Yang	Law, economics and innovation, Banking law and financial regulation FinTech regulation, Corporate governance and corporate social responsibility