Queen Mary, University of London

Research

Members of QMIPRI contribute to the research profile of Queen Mary and helped the School of Law earn the highest possible rating of 5* in the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise, which placed QMUL among the top 8 law schools in the UK. As with other subject areas, we adopt a wide spectrum of approaches to legal research, including doctrinal, theoretical, applied, comparative, historical, sociological, empirical and interdisciplinary perspectives.

Researchers at QMIPRI cover a broad scope of topics in the area of intellectual property law.

  • Copyright & Related Rights
  • Patents, Invention & Innovation
  • Trade Marks & Unfair Competition
  • Agricultural & Medical Biotechnology
  • Technology Transfer & Economic Development
  • Multimedia & the Internet
  • Intellectual Property Theory
  • Applied University Research
  • Cultural Rights
  • Enforcement of IPRs

Details of recent research are available on on our publications page and on the School of Law staff profile pages.

Supervision for research degrees in intellectual property law is available at Queen Mary, University of London. We offer a friendly, supportive and cosmopolitan community to undertake a MPhil or PhD degree that includes researchers from across the world.

Details of the QMUL PhD programme are available from the School of Law website and from the PhD Administrator, Jonathan Claydon.