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Miss Caoimhe Ring
LLB
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Lecturer
University of Bristol Law School
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Research interests
Caoimhe researches intellectual property law, knowledge governance, and theories of emergency for the climate crisis. Her current research examines access to technology in climate extremes, and industrial policies for climate change. She draws on law and political economy scholarship, science and technology studies, socio-legal studies, and has used interview and documentary analysis methods.
Prior to joining the University of Bristol Law School, Caoimhe pursued a DPhil in Law at the University of Oxford. During this time, she was an Associate Editor at the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal as well as co-convenor of the Intellectual Property Law Discussion Group and the Law and Political Economy (LPE) Discussion Group (2021–2023). She has held posts including as a Principal Investigator carrying out interviews on access to climate-friendly technologies in lower-income nations (2022-23), as a Tutor in Contract Law at Merton College, University of Oxford (2022), as an Associate Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University (2022), and as a research assistant to Professor Emily Hudson (King’s College London) on Drafting Copyright Exceptions: From the Law in Books to the Law in Action (Cambridge University Press 2019). She has contributed to Politico (2022), and various calls for views, including the UK Intellectual Property Office call for views on artificial intelligence (2020 & 2021). Caoimhe read law at King's College London (2016-2019).
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Intellectual Property Rights, Climate Technology Transfer and Innovation in Developing Countries
Principal Investigator
Description
A study commissioned by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). The contents of this Study…Managing organisational unit
University of Bristol Law SchoolDates
01/09/2022 to 01/08/2023
Publications
Recent publications
07/08/2023Intellectual Property Rights, Climate Technology Transfer and Innovation in Developing Countries
Intellectual Property Rights, Climate Technology Transfer and Innovation in Developing Countries
In Memoriam: The Continuing Relevance of Bruno Latour to Socio-Legal Studies
Patent Law and Climate Change: Innovation Policy for a Climate in Crisis
Harvard Journal of Law & Technology