Research Fellows
Professor Daniel Benoliel
Prof. Daniel Benoliel (LL.B, LL.M, J.S.D.) is the Vice-President-elect for Resource Management and Foreign Relations of the University of Haifa. He is a law professor at the University’s Faculty of Law and the Director of the Haifa Center of Law and Technology (HCLT).
Daniel’s main fields of expertise include intellectual property, law and economics, public international law, and entrepreneurship law. He holds a Doctorate in law (J.S.D.) from the UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) and has been a John M. Olin Research Fellow with the John M. Olin Center for Law and Economics at Berkeley and an alumnus of the Yale Law School Information Society Project (ISP). He was also a Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, at Munich Visiting Fellow, and a Post-Doctoral German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Residential Fellow with the Law and Economics Graduate College at the University of Hamburg, Germany.
He was an invited visiting professor and taught at various universities in Europe and America. These include the University of Oxford (2021 & 2022), University of Bologna (2018), Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (2010-2019), University of Masaryk (2014), University of Lucerne (2009), Hebrew University (2007, 2016), and Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV) in São Paulo (2009).
Benoliel received various prizes, awards, and research grants. These include the Israel Science Foundation (ISF) grants (2015-2017, 2018), the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions grant (2015), the University of Haifa Gishush grant (2010), the Harvard-Stanford Junior Faculty Forum award (2009), the Microsoft Research Award for best article (ALACDE, 2009), the John M. Olin Center for Law and Economics (2002-2004) grants, the 1st place article awards at both the 14th Computers, Freedom and Privacy Annual Conference (CFP 2004) & the 13th Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (TPRC 2002), and the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) grant (2002).
Benoliel authored and edited four books. These are Patent Intensity and Economic Growth (CUP, 2017) & (Chinese edition) (CUP & China National Publishing Foundation, 2023); Intellectual Property, Innovation, and Global Inequality (Daniel Benoliel, Peter Yu, Francis Gurry & Keun Lee, eds.) (CUP, 2024) (forthcoming), and Improbable Leaders: The Battle of Developing Countries for Access to Patented Medicines (with Bruno M. Salama) (FGV University Press, 2017) (in Portuguese).
Prof. Benoliel serves as legal advisor to the Zuckerman Institute, which supports academic research in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in the United States and Israel. In addition, he wrote legal opinions and advised high-tech companies traded on Nasdaq and many start-up companies in telecommunications, biosciences, software, e-commerce, and medical devices. Daniel is also a marathoner and an Ironman triathlete.
Graeme Dinwoodie is the Global Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law. From 2009-2018, he was the Professor of Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law at the University of Oxford, Director of the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre, and a professorial Fellow of St Peter's College.
Francis Gurry led WIPO as Director General from October 1, 2008 through September 2020.
Under his leadership, WIPO addressed major challenges. These included managing the stress on the international patent and copyright systems produced by rapid technological change, by globalization and increased demand; reducing the knowledge gap between developed and developing countries; and ensuring that the intellectual property (IP) system serves its fundamental purpose of encouraging creativity and innovation in all countries.
Dr Li Liu
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Alison Slade joined Leicester Law School in September 2017. She is a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Oxford Research and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Alison specialises in Intellectual Property Law and her most recent research is examining the nexus between intellectual property rights and licensing. Alison’s work has been published in leading generalist and specialist law journals including International and Comparative Law Quarterly, Intellectual Property Quarterly, Osgoode Hall Law Journal, and Journal of World Intellectual Property. Her work has also received funding under the ESRC's Impact Accelerator Award.
Shira Perlmutter is the Chief Policy Officer and Director for International Affairs at the United States Patents and Trademark Office. Before being appointed to this post, she was the Executive Vice President for Global Legal Policy at IFPI in London. She has worked in both government and the private sector, heading the office of Policy and International Affairs at the U.S. Copyright Office, and the intellectual property department at Time Warner. She has also been a law professor at Catholic University in Washington and a consultant at the World Intellectual Property Organisation in Geneva. Her writings include co-authorship of a casebook on International Intellectual Property Law and Policy, with Graeme Dinwoodie, Graeme Austin and William Hennessey.