Professor Graham Dutfield

Professor of International Governance

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I joined the School in 2007, and am currently Postgraduate Research Tutor.

My positions outside Leeds include Senior Member of the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, and Research Affiliate of the Intellectual Property Law and Technology Program at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto.

I am also an Adjunct Professor at the Center for Studies of Intellectual Property Rights at Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan, China. I am a member of the IPBio Network based here at Leeds. I have a D.Phil. from Oxford University.

Previously, I was Herchel Smith Senior Research Fellow in Intellectual Property Law at Queen Mary, University of London, and Academic Director of the UNCTAD-ICTSD Capacity-building Project on Intellectual Property Rights and Development, based in Geneva.

Scholarly and Research Interests

My research on intellectual property crosses several disciplines, including law, history, politics, economics and anthropology. More general scholarly interests include the law, science and business of technical innovation from the enlightenment to the present, especially in the life sciences.

Other research areas include intellectual property and access to knowledge, human rights, sustainable development, health, agriculture, genetics, biotechnology, traditional knowledge and folklore, bioprospecting, and indigenous peoples' rights.

Teaching

I am course director of the new LLM in Intellectual Property Law.

PhD Supervision

I currently supervise doctoral students on patent management, human rights and copyright, justice in traditional knowledge protection, and regulation of traditional medical knowledge.

Prospective students interested in pursuing research matching my scholarly and research interests are welcome to make informal enquiries.