Ansgar Ohly

Visiting Professor

Ansgar Ohly joined the Law Faculty as a Visiting Professor in October 2009. He holds law degrees from the Universities of Bonn, Cambridge (LL M) and Munich (Dr jur), and he has a chair in civil law and intellectual property law at the University of Bayreuth (Germany). Prior to being appointed as professor, he was head of the Commonwealth section of the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law (Munich).

His fields of research are all areas of intellectual property law, unfair competition law and the law of privacy and publicity, with a special focus on European harmonisation and on the comparison between civil law and common law systems.