People
Co-Directors
- Dr Yin Harn LeeYin Harn Lee is Co-Director of the Centre for Global Law and Innovation and a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Bristol Law School. Her research focuses on intellectual property law, and in particular copyright law. Her most recent projects deal with the status of videogame modifications under copyright law, and the challenges presented by copyright law for the preservation of videogames by cultural heritage institutions. She also has an interest in private law remedies, and in particular on the role of intellectual property disputes in remedial innovation.
- Dr Eva JaneckovaEva is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Bristol Law School. Her expertise lies in intellectual property law in which field she researches, teaches and worked in legal practice for several years. Her research focuses on IP and emerging technologies (artificial intelligence), intersection of IP and competition law and cyber security. Her monograph Copyright and Patent Laws for the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Authorship and Inventorship Revisited (Hart 2025) will be published in June 2025. She completed her DPhil at the EPSRC CDT in Cyber Security and the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford in 2023. Eva is a proud alumna of the LLM programme in Intellectual Property and Competition at the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (a joint project of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, University of Augsburg, Technische Universität München, and George Washington University Law School, Washington, D.C.).
- Emeritus Professor Tony ProsserTony Prosser was appointed Professor of Public Law in 2002, having been John Millar Professor of Law at the University of Glasgow and teaching at the Universities of Sheffield and Hull. He was a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence, and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, Bruges and the University Paris Dauphine. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2014. His research interests are in public law relating to regulation and economic management. His most recent book is The Economic Constitution, and other recent work concerns rail regulation and trust in regulation.
- Professor Albert Sanchez-GraellsAlbert Sanchez-Graells is a Professor of Economic Law at the University of Bristol Law School. Albert specialises in EU economic law and, in particular, competition and public procurement. Albert is currently researching the impact of digital technologies such as big data, machine learning, blockchain and the internet of things on public procurement governance, as well as functionally comparing developments in GovTech, RegTech and FinTech. Albert is a former Member of the European Commission Stakeholder Expert Group on Public Procurement. Most of his working papers are available at SSRN and his analysis of current legal developments is published on his blog.
PGR Students
- Kit FotheringhamKit Fotheringham is a postgraduate research student at the University of Bristol Law School. His doctoral thesis is on administrative law, specifically relating to the use of algorithms, machine learning and other artificial intelligence technologies by public bodies in automated decision-making procedures. Kit’s research maps out the existing legal frameworks and aims to synthesise the law from a regulatory perspective so that regulators can better co-ordinate their efforts.
- Andrii KoshmanAndrii Koshman is a postgraduate research student at the University of Bristol Law School. Andrii’s doctoral thesis explores the impact of court data and its quality on public understanding of the justice system. Andrii's research also aims to explore the role of quality court data in enhancing judicial accountability and how judicial accountability should evolve in the digital age.
- Conor Francis MacisConor Francis Macis is a PhD student whose thesis has the working title: "Law and Governance: The Global Political Economy of Antimicrobial Resistance". Conor's research broadly encompasses global health law, Marxist jurisprudence, and the wider global political economy of health. Their thesis intends to address capitalistic preanalytical assumptions that pervade the global approach to resolve antimicrobial resistance. He is supervised by Professor Keith Syrett, Professor Terrell Carver, and Dr Jacopo Martire. They are funded on a 1+3 scholarship by the ESRC and recently completed an MSc in Socio-Legal Studies at Bristol. They also achieved their LLM in Health, Law, and Society at Bristol, which was funded by the Wellcome Trust through CHLS, having attained his BSocSc in Politics and International Relations at the University of Southampton.
- Haoyu WangHaoyu Wang is a postgraduate research student at the University of Bristol Law School. His doctoral thesis focuses on the regulation of cross-border data transfer under General Data Protection Regulation(GDPR), specialising in analysing whether regulatory controls on cross-border data transfer premised on the ‘adequacy’ requirement under the EU data protection framework can effectively against intrusive state processing when personal data is transferred to third countries. His research also explores the impact of the rapid advancement of technology and the emergence of new social phenomena on the regulation of cross-border data transfer.
- Annaliese WrenAnnaliese is the Centre for Global Law and Innovation's intern and a postgraduate research student at the University of Bristol Law School. Her doctoral thesis is on artistic copyright law. Her research aims to shed light on the closed-list categorisation approach within UK artistic copyright, and how this may risk marginalising certain groups of creative individuals, such as those creating in contemporary or novel artistic mediums. Her project uses tactile artistic works as a key case study to demonstrate the limitations of the current approach in the UK, and contrasts this to the stance taken within EU Law. It aims to answer the overarching question; Is UK copyright law flexible enough, in both its theoretical underpinnings and legal provisions, to protect artistic works which are experienced via touch rather than by sight? This research is being carried out via doctrinal, socio-legal and empirical methodologies.