Professor Graham Dutfield
Professor of International Governance
I am founding Course Director of the LLM in Intellectual Property Law.
I have some positions outside Leeds: Research Affiliate of the Intellectual Property Law and Technology Program at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto and 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, and am on the scientific advisory board of a Canadian synthetic biology project called PhytoMetaSyn. I have a D.Phil. from Oxford University.
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 creativity and 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. For further information on my research with some downloadable papers, please see my profile on Academia.edu.
Teaching
I teach mainly on the 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.
Key Publications
Books
Dutfield, G. (2009) Intellectual Property Rights & the Life Science Industries: Past, Present & Future (2nd ed.) World Scientific.
Dutfield, G.; Suthersanen, U. (2008) Global Intellectual Property Law. Edward Elgar.
Dutfield, G. (2004) Intellectual Property, Biogenetic Resources & Traditional Knowledge. Earthscan | Review in Economic Botany
Dutfield, G. (2003) Intellectual Property Rights & the Life Science Industries: A Twentieth Century History. Ashgate. | Review in in Law and Politics Book Review | Review in Nature Biotechnology
Edited Books
Wong, T.; Dutfield, G. (eds) (2011) Intellectual Property & Human Development: Current Trenda & Future Scenarios. Cambridge University Press.
Suthersanen, U.; Dutfield, G.; Chow, K.B. (eds) (2007) Innovation without Patents: Harnessing the Creative Spirit in a Diverse World. Edward Elgar | Review in Intellectual Property Law and Practice
Dutfield, G.; Bellmann, C.; Melendez-Ortiz, R. (eds) (2003) Trading in Knowledge: Development Perspectives on TRIPS, Trade & Sustainability. Earthscan | Review in World Trade Review
Journal Articles
Dutfield, G. (2011) "Patents on Steroids: What Hormones Tell Us about the Evolution of Patent Law and the Pharmaceutical Industry". Intellectual Property Journal 23(3).
Dutfield, G. (2011) "A Critical Analysis of the Debate on Traditional Knowledge Drug Discovery and Drug-based Biopiracy". European Intellectual Property Review 33(4).
Dutfield, G. (2010) "Who Invents Life? Intelligent Designers, Blind Watchmakers, or Genetic Engineers?" Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice 5(7).
Dutfield, G. (2008) "Delivering Drugs to the Poor: Will the TRIPS Amendment Help?" American Journal of Law & Medicine 34(2/3).
Media Contact Areas
- Intellectual property rights
- Patents
- Bioprospecting and biopiracy
- Biotechnology law
- Intellectual property and emerging technologies
Contact Details
- Room: G.13, The Liberty Building
- Tel: 0113 343 1606
- Email: g.m.dutfield@leeds.ac.uk