Emeritus Professor Aurora Plomer
LLB, PhD, MA, BA Hons
Current positions
Emeritus Professor
University of Bristol Law School
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Research interests
International Intellectual Property Law, European Patent Law, Human Rights, Regulation of New Biotechnologies, Bioethics.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
8116 MRF-2019-112 Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship
Principal Investigator
Description
The project aims to interrogate an emerging narrative asserting the existence of a sui-generis European human
rights order, founded on market freedoms, which is claimed to necessitate treating companies as victims…Managing organisational unit
University of Bristol Law SchoolDates
01/09/2020 to 31/08/2022
Constitutional Hedges of Intellectual Property
Role
Collaborator
Description
The aim is to provide the first integrative analysis of how intellectual property (IP) is protected through constitutional measures based on:
human rights law, particularly protection of property ownership;
investment treaties; and
certain…Managing organisational unit
University of Bristol Law SchoolDates
01/09/2016 to 31/08/2020
ValEUR Research Project: ‘Governing values, governing through values, governed by values? The European Union as a risk polity
Role
Collaborator
Description
This project is led by Prof. Francois Foret at the University Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium). Aurora was part of a panel of international scholars who contribute to the project…Managing organisational unit
University of Bristol Law SchoolDates
01/01/2016 to 31/12/2019
The normative and institutional (dis)integration of the European Patent System
Principal Investigator
Description
The aim of the project is to examine the constitutional and human rights challenges posed by the creation of a Unified Patent Court as a European Union wide court with…Managing organisational unit
University of Bristol Law SchoolDates
15/09/2014 to 15/12/2014
Stem Cell Patents
Principal Investigator
Description
ESRC - Stem Cell Initiative
International visiting fellowship to University of California at Berkeley and University of StanfordManaging organisational unit
University of Bristol Law SchoolDates
05/01/2009 to 28/02/2009
Thesis supervisions
Public Interest Challenges to Gene Patents
Supervisors
Avoiding another Bonfire of the Vanities
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
01/01/2025Intellectual Property and the Human Rights of Companies in Europe
Intellectual Property and the Human Rights of Companies in Europe
Trading Intellectual Property Rights in Europe: from IP Nationalism to International IP
Trading Intellectual Property Rights in Europe: from IP Nationalism to International IP
A Market Friendly Paradigm for IP Rights and Human Rights in Europe
Global Intellectual Property Protection and New Constitutionalism
IP Rights and Human Rights: What history tells us and why it matters
The Right to Science then and now
The Unified Patent Court and the Transformation of the European Patent System
IIC International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law