Faculty of Law, Maastricht University
I am an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law of Maastricht University, with policy and legal expertise in the field of intellectual property (IP) and European law. I hold a PhD in Copyright and European Law from the University of Amsterdam, a Research Master in Intellectual Property Law from the University of Lisbon, an LL.M. in Intellectual Property and Competition Law from the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center, and a 5-year advanced LL.B. from the University of Lisbon.
I teach the following courses on the Advanced Master in Intellectual Property and Knowledge Management (IPKM):
Copyright and Related Rights
Copyright and Designs
Trademarks, Copyright and Designs
Legal English and Methodology
Jean Monnet module “Intellectual Property in the Digital Single Market”
This module seeks to support the understanding of EU intellectual property (IP) as a central element of the Digital Single Market (DSM) and more broadly of EU integration.
The module will first familiarize students with general IP areas and principles, which will then enable them to engage in the more specialized guest lectures which will deal with specific IP issues in the DSM, such as the regime and liability of information society providers. Besides lectures and specialized lectures, the module is comprised of practical seminars, which cover the application of lecture content to practical cases, and a final mock-trial based on a real-case scenario.
Research will inform teaching activities, and the pedagogic approach will be problem-based learning (PBL), an interactive teaching method where problems create the context for the acquisition of knowledge and problem-solving skills. Students will gain greater awareness of the DSM, while being able to frame IP as a relevant element therein. Students will also acquire expertise in substantive IP law.
The Indie Art Legal Clinic provides pro-bono advice to independent artists (visual artists, musicians, performers, street artists, etc.). Artists send their questions in advance, and make an appointment for a face-to-face consultation. The advice is given by mixed teams of both master and bachelor students. Students work together by identifying the problem, researching possible solutions and issuing a report with the proposed solution, all under supervision of a faculty member and an experienced lawyer. The face-to-face consultation with the client on the day of the appointment is made under the supervision of either the faculty member and/or a lawyer as well.
The Clinic provides students with a hands-on experience in intellectual property through client counselling, thereby encouraging students to delve deeper into the learned material and giving them the opportunity to apply their knowledge to real-life cases.
The training provided in the Clinic is also able to fuel a more intense engaging with course materials. Moreover, the Clinic serves as a platform of communication: pairing master- with bachelor students furthers education goals by integrating different levels of education within the same project. Bachelor students get extra guidance from master students, and they can have a sneak peak of what a masters in intellectual property would offer them; master students get extra experience in training more junior colleagues. At the same time, the Clinic connects students with local artists and thereby inspires more cross-disciplinary work.
In addition to providing students with practical training, the Clinic meets existing needs of Limburg-based artists. Maastricht in particular has a vibrant art scene that is promoted by numerous events throughout the year, such as TEFAF, the CrossCurrents Festival, the WE Festival or the PAS Festival. Several artistic schools and centres (the Van Eyck Academy, the Conservatorium Maastricht, the Maastricht Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Kumulus) generate numerous young creatives who might stumble upon a variety of legal questions on their path to the professional world. The Clinic thus contributes to support Maastricht as a thriving hub of independent artistic productions.
More details on the Clinic can be found here.
I have taught different intellectual property courses and/or classes in other institutions, including:
One week course on Intellectual Property, China EU School of Law at the China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing, China (2015, 2017)
Lecture on IP developments in Europe, Nagoya University, Japan (2017)
Lectures on recent IP developments in Europe, with focus on trademarks and the UPC, University of Melbourne and King & Wood Mallesons Sydney, Australia (2017)
Lecture on Recent Developments in Copyright Law, University of Warwick, United Kingdom (2017)
Lecture on Digital Copyright Law, Iustinianus Primus Law Faculty, Skopje, FYROM (2015)