Handbook of Intellectual Property Research: Lenses, Methods, and Perspectives

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, Professor of Law, Texas A&M University School of Law,Maria Lillà Montagnani, Associate Professor of Commercial Law, Bocconi University

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.