The relevance of intellectual property law has increased dramatically over the last several years. Globalization, digitization, and the rise of post-industrial information-based industries have all contributed to a new prominence of IP law as one of the most important factors in driving innovation and economic development. At the same time, the significant expansion of IP rules has impacted many areas of public policy such as public health, the environment, biodiversity, agriculture, and information in an unprecedented manner. The growing importance of IP law has led to an exponential growth of academic research in this area. This book offers a comprehensive overview of the methods and approaches that could be used as guidelines to address and develop scholarly research questions related to intellectual property law. In particular, this volume aims to provide a useful resource that can be used by IP researchers who are interested in expanding their expertise in a specific research method or seek to acquire an understanding of alternative lenses that could be applied to their research. This edited collection is one of the largest compilations, to date, of existing methods and approaches from different lenses, perspectives, and experiences from a diverse group of scholars who derive from a wide range of countries, backgrounds, and legal traditions. This diversity, both regarding the topics and the authors of the contributions, is a fundamental feature of this collection, which seeks to assist IP researchers across many countries in the developing and developed world.
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"Irene Calboli and Maria Lillà Montagnani: Introduction Part I: Intersections Between Intellectual Property Law and Other Areas of Law 1: Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan: Intellectual Property and International Law: A Research Framework 2: Graeme W. Austin: A Conflicts of Law Approach to Intellectual Property Research 3: Irene Calboli: Comparative Legal Analysis and Intellectual Property Law: A Guide for Research 4: Jacques de Werra: Contract Law and Intellectual Property Transactions: Research Perspectives 5: Giancarlo Frosio: Intellectual Property Law and Extra-Contractual Liability 6: Michael Grynberg: Property Law and the Intellectual Property Agenda 7: Laurent Manderieux: The Relationship Between Intellectual Property and Administrative Law 8: Mariateresa Maggiolino and Laura Zoboli: The Intersection Between Intellectual Property and Antitrust Law 9: Megan Richardson: Intellectual Property Law and (Data) Privacy 10: Maria Lillà Montagnani: The Interface Between Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law 11: Joshua D. Sarnoff: A Research Framework for Intellectual Property and Environmental Law 12: Peter K. Yu: Intellectual Property, Human Rights and Methodological Reflections 13: Ajay K. Sharma and Dipa Dube: The Relevance of Criminal Law in Intellectual Property Law Research 14: Althaf Marsoof: Intersections Between Intellectual Property and Dispute Resolution Part II: Intersections Between Intellectual Property Law and the Humanities 15: Marketa Trimble: Intellectual Property Law and Geography 16: Michael Birnhack: A Post-colonial Framework for Researching Intellectual Property History 17: Jose Bellido: Intellectual Property and the Question of the Archive 18: Maurizio Borghi: Interpreting Historical-Philosophical Sources of Intellectual Property 19: Jeremy N. Sheff: Philosophical Approaches to Intellectual Property Law Scholarship 20: George Nicholas and Catherine Bell: Intellectual Property and Archaeology: Research Concerns and Considerations 21: Fiona MacMillan: Intellectual Property and Cultural Heritage: Towards Interdisciplinarity 22: Alan Durant and Jennifer Davis: Directions in Intellectual Property Law Research: A Linguistic Contribution 23: Zahr K. Said: Law and Literature in Intellectual Property Methodologies 24: David Tan: Intellectual Property and Semiotics: The Signs of the Times 25: Arpan Banerjee: A Primer on Intellectual Property and Popular Culture Research Part III: Intersections Between Intellectual Property Law and (Social) Science 26: Shubha Ghosh: Consequentialist Thinking and Economic Analysis in Intellectual Property 27: Bruno van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie: Innovation Economics Approach to Intellectual Property Law Scholarship 28: Geertrui Van Overwalle and Lina Kestemont: Multidisciplinary Legal Research: Science and Technology and Intellectual Property 29: Daniel Seng: Intellectual Property, Information Science and Quantitative Legal Analysis 30: Sharon Bar-Ziv: A Content Analysis Approach to Intellectual Property Research 31: Thomas Margoni: Computational Legal methods: Text and Data Mining in Intellectual Property Research 32: Rudi Bekkers and Arianna Martinelli: A Network Analysis Approach to Intellectual Property Research 33: Alan C. Marco and Saurabh Vishnubhakat: Survival Analysis in Intellectual Property Research 34: William T. Gallagher and Debora J. Halbert: Intellectual Property Law and Sociolegal Studies 35: Gregory N. Mandel: The Psychology of Intellectual Property 36: Elfriede Penz and Eva Hofmann: Intellectual Property and Behavioral Studies: Methodological Perspectives 37: Jessica Silbey: Intellectual Property and Ethnography: A Qualitative Research Approach 38: Dilip Sharma and Abhijeet Kumar: Methods for Intellectual Property Valuation Part IV: Intersections Between Intellectual Property Law and Pluralism 39: Ahmed Abdel-Latif and Pedro Roffe: The Interface between Intellectual Property and Sustainable Development 40: J. Janewa Osei Tutu: A ""Human Development"" Approach to Intellectual Property Law 41: Tim Taylor and Estelle Derclaye: Intellectual Property Rights and Well-Being: A Methodological Approach 42: Lateef Mtima and Steven Jamar: Researching Social Justice Aspects of Intellectual Property 43: Peter Jaszi: A Prolegomenon to Future Research on Intellectual Property and the Old Arts 44: Caroline B. Ncube: Intellectual Property and Openness: A Research Perspective and Agenda 45: Jeremy de Beer: Intellectual Property and ""Open"" Innovation: A Synthesis of Concepts 46: Margaret Chon: Intellectual Property Research and Critical Studies 47: Ann Bartow: Feminist Methodologies and Intellectual Property 48: Anjali Vats and Deidré Keller: Critical Race Theory as Intellectual Property Methodology 49: Christine Haight Farley: A Research Framework on Intellectual Property and Morality 50: Margo Bagley: Exploring Intellectual Property Through the Lens of Religious Thought 51: Miranda Risang Ayu Palar: Research Perspectives on Intellectual Property Law and Spirituality 52: Ida Madieha Abdul Ghani Azmi: Divergent Methodological Approaches to Intellectual Property Law in Mixed Jurisdictions"
Irene Calboli is Professor of Law at Texas A&M University School of Law, Transatlantic Technology Law Fellow at Stanford University, and Visiting Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore. She is a member of the American Law Institute, the board of the European Policy for Intellectual Property Law Association, and the Executive Committees of the Comparative Law, Art Law, and East Asia Sections of American Association of Law Schools. A widely published and cited scholar, she serves in the editorial boards of the Journal of IP Law and Practice, the Queen Mary Journal of IP, and the WIPO-WTO Colloquium Papers. She is an expert, inter alia, for WIPO, the EUIPO, the EU Commission, and several national Intellectual Property offices. Maria Lillà Montagnani is Associate Professor of Commercial Law at Bocconi University in Milan, where she teaches and research in the field of Intellectual Property Law and Information Technology Law, and is the Director of LL.M program in European Business and Social Law. She is Visiting Professor at Peking University School of Transnational law and NYU Global Hauser Research Fellow 2019-2020, NYU Law School. She has widely published in the field of Intellectual Property and Technology Law in national and international journals and prestigious book series. She is a member of the editorial board of several law journals and is an expert with the European Commission.
- Winner of Voted IPKat Best IP Law Book 2021.
