Justine Pila
University Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law
BA/LLB Hons, PhD (Melbourne); MA, DipLATHE (Oxford)
Justine Pila took up her faculty post in 2004 at the same time as her tutorial fellowship at St Catherine's College. She is the Senior Law Tutor and College Counsel (in-house legal officer) at St Catherine's and a Research Fellow of the Oxford Institute of European and Comparative Law (IECL). With Professor John Gardner she co-edits the two Oxford Legal Research Paper Series, in addition to serving as legal advisor to the Oxford Magazine. She also convenes the Law Faculty's Intellectual Property subject group and teaches on all of its IP programmes, including the two FHS (undergraduate) IP options, the BCL option, and the Postgraduate Diploma in IP Law and Practice. Her main areas of research are copyright and patent law in all of their doctrinal, theoretical and historical aspects. Prior to 2004 Justine had been writing her PhD after a stint in private practice and working for the Chief Justice of the Australian Federal Court. Links to her published research and teaching materials can be accessed from her personal website.
Publications
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2013
J Pila, 'A Constitutionalised Doctrine of Precedent and the Marleasing Principle as Bases for a European Legal Methodology' in Ansgar Ohly and Justine Pila (eds), The Europeanisation of Intellectual Property Law: Towards a European Legal Methodology (OUP 2013)
J Pila, 'Intellectual Property Law as a Case Study in European Harmonisation: Methodological Themes and Context' in Ansgar Ohly and Justine Pila (eds), The Europeanisation of Intellectual Property Law: Towards a European Legal Methodology (OUP 2013)
J Pila, 'Patent Eligibility and Scope Revisited in the Light of Schütz v. Werit, European Law and Copyright Jurisprudence' in R.C. Dreyfuss & J.C. Ginsburg (eds), Intellectual Property at the Edge: The Contested Contours of IP (Cambridge University Press 2013)
J Pila, 'Professional and Academic Employee Inventions: Looking Beyond the UK Paradigm' in M Pittard, A Monitti and J Duns (eds), Business Innovation: A Legal Balancing Act – Perspectives from Intellectual Property, Labour and Employment, Competition and Corporate Laws (Edward Elgar 2013)
J Pila, 'The European Patent: An Old and Vexing Problem' (2013) 62(4) International & Comparative Law Quarterly
