We were delighted to host another instalment in our series of public lectures, delivered by Paul Heald, the Albert J. Harno and Edward W. Cleary Chair in Law Emeritus at the University of Illinois. Paul will deliver a lecture on Recent Empirical Research in Intellectual Property Law.
Paul’s lecture took place on March 17 at 3:30pm in the Yudowitz Lecture Theatre, Wolfson Medical School Building, University Avenue, followed by a drinks reception.
Empirical approaches to copyright, patent, trademark, and trade secret law have proliferated over the last decade. Professor Heald will examine successes and failures in recent research projects and highlight advances in methodology made by various researchers.
Paul Heald, the Albert J. Harno and Edward W. Cleary Chair in Law Emeritus at the University of Illinois is a CREATe fellow and Honorary Professor at the University of Glasgow. He spent much of 2018 as an Erskine Fellow in the Economics Department of the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, and as a Research Fellow at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study in South Africa. Heald lectures on patent, copyright and international intellectual property law around the world and has previously held visiting positions at universities in Buenos Aires, Bournemouth, London, Lyon, Regensburg, and at the University of Chicago, University of Texas, and Vanderbilt University. He also ran the UGA/OSU program at St. Anne’s College, Oxford University, during the spring of 2009. He was Herbert Smith Visitor at Cambridge University in 2012. Recent publications have focused on economic aspects of the public domain, and theoretical papers on optimal patent remedies, the role transaction costs in patent law, and the problem of patent pricing as well as empirical studies on best-selling fiction and musical compositions and the behaviour of famous trademarks in product and service markets.