People

• Dr Yin Harn Lee
  Yin Harn Lee is Co-Director of the Centre for Global Law and Innovation and a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Bristol Law School. Her research focuses on intellectual property law, and in particular copyright law. Her most recent projects deal with the status of videogame modifications under copyright law, and the challenges presented by copyright law for the preservation of videogames by cultural heritage institutions. She also has an interest in private law remedies, and in particular on the role of intellectual property disputes in remedial innovation.
• Dr Eva Janeckova
  Eva is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Bristol Law School. Her expertise lies in intellectual property law which she researches, teaches and practiced for several years. Her research focuses on IP and emerging technologies (artificial intelligence), intersection of IP and competition law and cyber security. She reads for DPhil at the EPSRC CDT in Cyber Security and the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford. She completed her LLM in Intellectual Property and Competition at the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (a joint project of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, University of Augsburg, Technische Universität München, and George Washington University Law School, Washington, D.C.)

• Professor Andrew Charlesworth
  Andrew Charlesworth is Professor of Law, Innovation and Society in the Law School and Computer Science Department, and a member of the Management Board of the University’s UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Interactive Artificial Intelligence. His research interests centre around information technology and e-commerce regulation, and encompass data protection and privacy, business and research ethics, intellectual property, and cybercrime. He is co-author of Rowland, Kohl & Charlesworth, Information Technology Law (Routledge), now in its 5th edition, and a member of the International Panel of Experts of the EuroPrivacy certification scheme.

• Tania Cheng-Davies
  Dr Tania Cheng-Davies is a Senior Lecturer in Law, with research interests in copyright law and moral rights. Her recent research projects include empirical research on the arts and moral rights in Singapore (funded by Society of Legal Scholars), and research on the history of print technology and knowledge dissemination (supported by Washington College of Law). Her research for 2024/2025, funded by the British Academy, examines copyright and moral rights issues affecting classical music, including among others, the impact of AI generative music on the development and practice of classical music. She has published in leading generalist and IP specialist journals such as the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies and Intellectual Property Quarterly, for which she has won prizes, including the John McLaren Emmerson QC Prize awarded by the Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand. Prior to joining academia, Tania practised law for several years, specialising in IP litigation and IT corporate work.

• Dr Jennifer Collins
  Jennifer Collins is an Associate Professor in Law at the University of Bristol and has been a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute. Her research expertise is in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice. She has research interests in criminal law and emerging technologies.

• Professor Colin Gavaghan
  Colin Gavaghan is Professor of Digital Futures at Bristol Law School and the Bristol Digital Futures Institute. His research focuses on regulatory challenges posed by emerging technologies. His recent work looks at legal and regulatory issues around artificial intelligence and the internet. Prior to moving to Bristol, Colion lived in New Zealand, where he held various advisory and regulatory roles, including serving as inaugural chair of New Zealand Police’s Expert Panel on Emerging Technologies, and legal expert and deputy chair of the Advisory Committee on Assisted Reproductive Technology.

• Professor Paula Giliker
  Paula Giliker holds the Chair in Comparative Law and her work covers comparative private law, with particular emphasis on contract and tort law. She is interested in global comparative law, engaging in common and civil law comparisons and examination of the tensions within the common law legal family. Her work further engages with attempts at harmonisation in the European Union and beyond. Her most recent publications address EU directives on digital contracts and contracts for the sale of goods and she is currently engaged in a study of vicarious liability in tort across the common law world.

• Dr Eleanore Hickman
  Eleanore Hickman is a lecturer at the University of Bristol. Eleanore’s research interests focus on the governance of corporations and financial institutions. As part of this, Eleanore is exploring the risks and opportunities associated with innovation and developing technologies in governance, particularly Artficial Intelligence. Much of her research can be found on ssrn. Prior to joining Bristol, Eleanore was a research associate at the University of Cambridge and a practising solicitor.

• Dr Václav Janeček
  Václav (Lecturer in Law) is a private law scholar. His work focuses on legal remedies and various issues at the interface of law, philosophy, and computer science. Václav is the LLM in Law, Innovation and Technology programme director. Outside Bristol, he co-directs the Oxford LawTech Education Programme.

• Professor Rem Noormohamed
  Rem Noormohamed is a partner in the Tech & Data Law group at Fieldfisher LLP, Industrial Professor at the University of Bristol Law School and past Visiting Professor of Entrepreneurship. His expertise and research interests centre on the intersection of law and regulation with 'tech' and data driven innovation, new business models and monetisation of IP rights. He is a part-time, industry sponsored, PhD candidate at Bristol Law School - researching 'the legal, regulatory and engineering design challenges presented by digital autonomous safety critical systems'. Rem is a solicitor and an IT/telecoms consultant engineer; technical expert on ISO/IEC, CEN/CENELEC and BSI's standards development committees for Artifical Intelligence, Blockchain, ICT, IoT/digital twin, digital identity, privacy and cybersecurity; and editorial board member of the 'Communications Law Journal' (Bloomsbury Publishing).

• Professor Tonia Novitz
  Tonia Novitz is Professor of Labour Law at the University of Bristol. Her research focuses predominantly on labour law, international and EU trade, migration, sustainability and the protection of human rights. Her research maps global trends and emerging challenges, such as trade union engagement with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. She is currently a vice-president of the UK Institute of Employment Rights, on the advisory board of International Lawyers Assisting Workers (ILAW) and chair of the steering committee of the international Labour Law Research Network (LLRN).

• Professor Ken Oliphant
  Ken Oliphant is Professor of Tort Law at the University of Bristol. Previously, while on extended leave from Bristol, he was Director of the Institute for European Tort Law in Vienna (2009-2013) and before that he held faculty positions at Cardiff University and King's College London. He has wide-ranging research interests in English, European and comparative tort law, including such topics as liability for autonomous vehicles, liability in respect of the use of AI in health care (black-box medicine) and the influence of technological innovation on the law of tort in general.

• Emeritus Professor Aurora Plomer
  Aurora Plomer is Emeritus Professor of Intellectual Property and Human Rights at the University of Bristol. She holds degrees in Philosophy (BA, MA, PhD) and Law (LLB) from the University of Manchester. She has held awards and acted as a consultant for the Council of Europe, the European Commission, the ESRC, the Welcome Trust, British Academy, UNESCO and EUI. She has numerous publications on technological innovation, human rights and intellectual property. From September 2020 until August 2022, she will be a Leverhulme Senior Research Fellow. The project will lead to a monograph on the history and rationale of the extension of human rights to companies in the ECHR and will be published by CUP.

• Emeritus Professor Tony Prosser
  Tony Prosser was appointed Professor of Public Law in 2002, having been John Millar Professor of Law at the University of Glasgow and teaching at the Universities of Sheffield and Hull. He was a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence, and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, Bruges and the University Paris Dauphine. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2014. His research interests are in public law relating to regulation and economic management. His most recent book is The Economic Constitution, and other recent work concerns rail regulation and trust in regulation.

• Miss Caoimhe Ring
  Caoimhe is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Bristol Law School. Her research concerns intellectual property law, climate-friendly technology policy, and socio-legal studies. Prior to joining Bristol, she acted as principal investigator on a commissioned research project on IP and access to climate-friendly technology. Caoimhe is completing a DPhil in Law at the University of Oxford which uses interview data to understand whether IP impedes climate-friendly technology diffusion. In her thesis, Caoimhe considers the relationship between IP and mission-oriented innovation, and whether the mission-oriented programmes of the COVID-19 pandemic make a blueprint for developing technologies to combat climate change.

• Professor Albert Sanchez-Graells
  Albert Sanchez-Graells is a Professor of Economic Law at the University of Bristol Law School. Albert specialises in EU economic law and, in particular, competition and public procurement. Albert is currently researching the impact of digital technologies such as big data, machine learning, blockchain and the internet of things on public procurement governance, as well as functionally comparing developments in GovTech, RegTech and FinTech. Albert is a former Member of the European Commission Stakeholder Expert Group on Public Procurement. Most of  his working papers are available at SSRN and his analysis of current legal developments is published on his blog. 

• Professor Elen Stokes
  Elen Stokes is a Professor in Environmental Law and Co-Director of the Law School's Centre for Environmental Law and Sustainability. Her research interests are in the regulation of new technologies, and the relationship between law and the future. She is a founder member of the Future Matters Collective, an interdisciplinary network of academics and arts-practitioners established to investigate society's relationship to the future and enable creative future-making in contexts of energy and environment, urban regeneration, and health and well-being.

• Professor Keith Syrett
  Keith Syrett is Professor of Health Law and Policy at the University of Bristol Law School. His research focuses upon the role of law as a mechanism of regulation and governance within health systems - especially in relation to the allocation of scarce resources - and on the ways in which law can both promote, and sometimes impede, the health of the population locally, nationally and globally. Keith sits on the managing committees of the International Society on Priorities in Health, and the British Association for Canadian Studies. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, and of the Royal Society of Arts. Keith is currently co-lead of the Elizabeth Blackwell Institute research strand on Global Public Health. 

• Dr Clare Torrible
  Clare is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Bristol Law School. She specialises in policing and police regulation, with an increasing interest on evidence-based policing and police use of emerging technologies. In particular, she is interested in the interface between the structures for police accountability, police occupational culture, evidence-based policing and data bias in police procurement and use of technology (including AI). Prior to joining academia Clare practiced as a senior solicitor for a policing body and she currently sits on the Independent Office for Police Conduct External Stakeholder Group.

• Dr Asma Vranaki
  Asma Vranaki is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Bristol Law School. She specialises in all aspects of Information Law and Regulation. Her research engages with various disciplines including regulation, Internet studies, science & technology studies (including actor-network theory) and socio-legal studies. She is particularly interested in the data protection, privacy, IP, defamation, freedom of expression and contract law issues raised by innovative digital technologies such as social media, cloud computing, AI and the Internet of Things.

• Kit Fotheringham
  Kit Fotheringham is a postgraduate research student at the University of Bristol Law School. His doctoral thesis is on administrative law, specifically relating to the use of algorithms, machine learning and other artificial intelligence technologies by public bodies in automated decision-making procedures. Kit’s research maps out the existing legal frameworks and aims to synthesise the law from a regulatory perspective so that regulators can better co-ordinate their efforts.
• Andrii Koshman
  Andrii Koshman is a postgraduate research student at the University of Bristol Law School. Andrii’s doctoral thesis explores the impact of court data and its quality on public understanding of the justice system. Andrii's research also aims to explore the role of quality court data in enhancing judicial accountability and how judicial accountability should evolve in the digital age.
• Conor Francis Macis
  Conor Francis Macis is a PhD student whose thesis has the working title: "Law and Governance: The Global Political Economy of Antimicrobial Resistance". Conor's research broadly encompasses global health law, Marxist jurisprudence, and the wider global political economy of health. Their thesis intends to address capitalistic preanalytical assumptions that pervade the global approach to resolve antimicrobial resistance. He is supervised by Professor Keith Syrett, Professor Terrell Carver, and Dr Jacopo Martire. They are funded on a 1+3 scholarship by the ESRC and recently completed an MSc in Socio-Legal Studies at Bristol. They also achieved their LLM in Health, Law, and Society at Bristol, which was funded by the Wellcome Trust through CHLS, having attained his BSocSc in Politics and International Relations at the University of Southampton.
• Katie McCay
  Katie McCay is a postgraduate research student at the University of Bristol Law School. Her research considers what private law remedies are available for interference with intangibles. Digitalisation has changed ownership and control of personal assets, something which English law has struggled to properly address. Problems arise because English law relies extensively on possession as a proxy for ownership and intangibles cannot be possessed under English law. There are also questions about whether certain types of digital assets are property in the first place. Her research considers the extent to which intangibles can be accommodated by existing private law remedies. It asks if the focus of remedies on property and possession is practically and theoretically defensible. This is because some types of commercially valuable intangible assets fall outside the scope of one or both of those criteria. It considers what changes, if any, would be desirable if current remedies do not adequately protect intangibles.
• Haoyu Wang
  Haoyu Wang is a postgraduate research student at the University of Bristol Law School. His doctoral thesis focuses on the regulation of cross-border data transfer under General Data Protection Regulation(GDPR), specialising in analysing whether regulatory controls on cross-border data transfer premised on the ‘adequacy’ requirement under the EU data protection framework can effectively against intrusive state processing when personal data is transferred to third countries. His research also explores the impact of the rapid advancement of technology and the emergence of new social phenomena on the regulation of cross-border data transfer.
• Yentyl Williams
  Yentyl Williams is a postgraduate research student at the University of Bristol Law School. Her thesis focuses on ‘The EU and Innovation in International Trade - A case study of the Intellectual Property (IP) provisions on Geographical Indications (GI) in the EU-ACP Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs)’. Her academic interests include International Economic Law, World Trade Law, EU Law, globalisation and food policies, and Caribbean, indigenous and marginalised methodologies. She has previously worked on EU trade policies in Brussels and runs her own non-profit organisation, the African Caribbean and Pacific Young Professionals Network.