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Launching soon: Centre for Global Law and Innovation

Press release issued: 11 June 2019

The Law School is delighted to announce the launch of a new centre of research. The Centre for Global Law and Innovation (CGLI) brings together expertise in international trade law, innovation law, intellectual property law and digital economies to promote thought leadership on the legal challenges posed by digital economies and global trade.

Led by Professor Andrew CharlesworthDr Clair GammageProfessor Sarah Green, and Professor Aurora Plomer, the Centre for Global Law and Innovation (CGLI) will enhance synergies between scholars in the school whose research engages with the legal, social and economic challenges posed by globalisation, innovation, trade and development.

Building on the expertise of members in banking regulation; digital economies, intellectual property; European and international trade, investment treaties and development, the Centre aims to promote independent, world leading research to inform and support international, European and national agencies, regulators and courts in all aspects of legal policy on innovate, trade and development.

Find out more about the CGLI at the international Contract Theory Workshop, held 20 – 21 June, hosted jointly by the Law School and the School of Economics, Finance and Management with a keynote lecture from Nobel Prize-winning economist Oliver Hart, Professor of Economics at Harvard University and IAS Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professor at the University of Bristol.

An event to mark the launch of CGLI will be announced later this year. If you would like further details, please email Law-Marketing@bristol.ac.uk.

To attend the workshop and/or the keynote lecture please register for a place via Eventbrite.

Further information

The Centre for Global Law and Innovation (CGLI) brings together expertise in international trade law, innovation law, intellectual property law and digital economies to promote thought leadership on the legal challenges posed by digital economies and global trade.

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