Biography
Dr Barbara Lauriat joined King’s in 2011, teaching and conducting research on intellectual property law subjects. She is a Research Fellow of the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre (OIPRC) in the University of Oxford Law Faculty, and she teaches as an Adjunct Professor on the faculty of the Notre Dame London Law Centre. She was an Academic Fellow of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple from 2013-2016 and is now an Associate Academic Fellow. She serves on the editorial board of Arbitration International and the King’s Law Journal and is the academic consultant for Copinger & Skone James on Copyright.
Before joining King’s Dr Lauriat was the Career Development Fellow in Intellectual Property Law at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St. Catherine’s College, Oxford. She has also spent time as a Visiting Scholar at the University of British Columbia, as a Hauser Global Research Fellow at New York University School of Law, and as a Visiting Senior Research Fellow in the New Zealand Centre of International Economic Law, Victoria University Wellington.
Dr Lauriat holds an AA from Mount Wachusett Community College, a BA and JD from Boston University, where she served as an editor on the Boston University Law Review, and a DPhil on the subject of the 1878 Royal Commission on Copyright from Balliol College, Oxford, where she was General Editor (Editor-in-Chief) of the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal.
Research interests
Dr Lauriat's research is broadly concerned with intellectual property law. In particular, she is interested in the history of copyright, patent, and trade mark law and the relationship between political ideologies and intellectual property theory. She is also interested in the arbitration of international intellectual property disputes.
For more information on Dr Lauriat's research, visit our research portal.
Teaching
Dr Lauriat teaches undergraduate and graduate intellectual property law subjects.
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Lauriat, B., 25 Mar 2016, Research Handbook on the History of Copyright Law. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, p. 7-26 20 p. Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Lauriat, B. A. C., 16 Jun 2017, In: Journal of International Dispute Settlement. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Lauriat, B., 7 Sep 2017, Landmarks in Intellectual Property Law. Bellido, J. (ed.). Oxford: Hart Publishing, p. 149-179 ( Landmark cases series). Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Lauriat, B. A. C., 24 Jan 2019, Hart Publishing. 256 p. Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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Lauriat, B., 2015, In: King's Law Journal. 16, p. 330-333 Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
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Lauriat, B., 2016, The Internet and the Emerging Importance of New Forms of Intellectual Property. Frankel, S. & Gervais, D. (eds.). Kluwer Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Lauriat, B., 2016, History of Copyright Law: A Handbook of Contemporary Research . Edward Elgar, 7 p. Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781783472406.00007
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Lauriat, B., 2014, In: EUROPEAN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY REVIEW. 36, 5, p. 275-278 Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Lauriat, B., 2013, In: The Commonwealth Lawyer. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Lauriat, B., 9 Apr 2014, In: Journal of World Intellectual Property. 17, 1-2, p. 47-59 13 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1002/jwip.12019