Barton Beebe is the John M Desmarais Professor of Intellectual Property Law at New York University School of Law. He has been the Anne Urowsky Visiting Professor of Law at Yale Law School, a visiting Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and a visiting research fellow at Merton College, Oxford. He is the author of Trademark Law: An Open-Source Casebook, which is a free online trademark casebook now in use in over eighty law schools around the world. Beebe received his JD from Yale Law School, his PhD in English Literature from Princeton University and his BA from the University of Chicago.

Christopher Buccafusco is the Edward & Ellen Schwarzman Distinguished Professor at Duke University Law School in Durham, North Carolina. His research covers a wide range of topics and methods related to creativity, innovation and intellectual property law. He uses novel social science experiments to explore the nature of innovation markets, and he writes about evolving issues in copyright, patent and trademark law, including music copyright litigation, pharmaceutical patents and IP rights for industrial design. Prior to joining Duke Law, Christopher taught at Cardozo Law School and Chicago-Kent College of Law. At Chicago-Kent, he won the Student Bar Association’s professor of the year award in his first year of teaching, and he later won a university-wide award for excellence in teaching.

Robert Burrell is Professor of Intellectual Property & Information Technology Law at the University of Oxford and Professor of Law at Melbourne Law School. Robert’s previous academic positions include posts at the Australian National University and King’s College London. He has held visiting positions at the University of Cambridge, the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York and the National University of Singapore. Robert teaches and researches across all areas of intellectual property law. He is the author (with Allison Coleman) of Copyright Exceptions: The Digital Impact and (with Michael Handler) of Australian Trade Mark Law. Outside of academia, Robert has spent many years working as a consultant to boutique Australian firms and, in particular, has substantial experience in litigation before the Australian Trade Marks Office.

Irene Calboli is Regents Professor of Law at Texas A&M University School of Law. She also holds several honourary and visiting appointments, including at the University of Geneva, the University of Bologna, Sciences Po Paris, Bocconi University, Melbourne University and Stanford University. In 2022, she was a Fulbright-Hanken Distinguished Chair in Business and Economics in Finland and, in 2018, a Fulbright specialist at the Royal University of Law and Economics in Cambodia. Irene is a member of the editorial board of the Oxford Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice, the Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property and the WIPO-WTO Colloquium Papers. She is also an elected member of the American Law Institute and the European Law Institute and serves on the board of the Comparative Law and European Law Sections of the Association of American Law Schools, the International Law Association, the European Policy for Intellectual Property Law Association and the International Trademark Association.

Roger Allan Ford is a Professor of Law at the University of New Hampshire, faculty fellow at the Franklin Pierce Center for Intellectual Property and affiliated fellow at the Yale Information Society Project. He teaches and writes about intellectual property, privacy and other ways the law regulates information. He previously taught at the University of Chicago, George Mason University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; was a fellow at the NYU Information Law Institute; practised IP litigation at Covington & Burling LLP; and served as a law clerk to Chief Judge Frank H Easterbrook of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Roger received a bachelor of science in chemistry from MIT and a law degree, with honours, from the University of Chicago, where he was an editor of the Law Review. He is admitted to practise law in Massachusetts and the District of Columbia.

Jeanne C Fromer is Walter J Derenberg Professor of Intellectual Property Law at New York University School of Law and Co-Director of the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy. She has testified before Congress and been cited by the US Supreme Court on trademark law. Fromer was awarded the American Law Institute’s inaugural Young Scholars Medal for her scholarship in intellectual property and served as a law clerk to Justice David Souter of the US Supreme Court. Jeanne received her JD magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, serving as articles editor of the Harvard Law Review and editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology. She earned her BA summa cum laude in computer science from Barnard College, Columbia University. Jeanne received her SM in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories in the area of artificial intelligence.

Dev S Gangjee is Professor of Intellectual Property Law at the Oxford Law Faculty. Dev’s research focuses on intellectual property (IP), with a special emphasis on branding and trademarks, geographical indications (GIs) and copyright law. Thematic research interests include the history and political economy of IP, collective innovation, the significance of registration for intangibles and, more recently, rights in data. He has acted in an advisory or expert capacity on GIs for national governments, law firms, international organisations and the European Commission.

Vicki Huang is Associate Professor of IP Law at Deakin Law School and is a co-author of one of Australia’s leading intellectual property textbooks: S Ricketson, M Richardson, M Davison and V Huang, Intellectual Property: Cases, Material and Commentary, 6th ed (LexisNexis, 2019). Her research work focusses on empirical methods and IP law, particularly the intersection of IP with gender and race. Vicki has taught numerous law units including IP, property, marketing, fashion and cyber law. She is the University’s Teacher of the Year (2022) and recipient of the Law School’s Teaching Excellence Award (2022). Vicki is dual-qualified as an Australian lawyer and a US attorney. She graduated from the Melbourne Law School with a PhD and first-class honours in the LLB. She also completed an LLM at Columbia University Law School as Burton Memorial Fellow with honours.

Emily Hudson is Professor of Law at the Oxford Faculty of Law and Tutorial Fellow at The Queen’s College. She has previously held posts at King’s College London, the University of Queensland and the University of Melbourne. Emily’s research spans many areas, including intellectual property, personal property, trusts and law as it relates to cultural institutions and the creative industries. She is author of the monograph, Drafting Copyright Exceptions: From the Law in Books to the Law in Action (Cambridge University Press, 2020).

Jyh-An Lee is Professor and the Executive Director of the Centre for Legal Innovation and Digital Society (CLINDS) at the Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law. He has been the legal lead of the Creative Commons Hong Kong Chapter since October 2018. Since 2016, he has held a panelist position for the Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre (ADNDRC). Professor Lee has been featured on ABC News, BBC News, Bloomberg News, Financial Times, Fortune and South China Morning Post as an expert on intellectual property and internet law. His works have been cited by the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, the UK High Court of Justice, the US International Trade Commission and the European Union (in a WTO dispute-settlement case).

Susanna H S Leong is a professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and holds several leadership roles there. She is Vice-Provost for Masters’ Programmes and Lifelong Education, dean of the School of Continuing and Lifelong Education and president advisor overseeing development of the NUS Chongqing Research Institute. Susanna was previously a vice-dean at the NUS Business School and helped oversee its MBA programmmes. She joined NUS in 1991 and rose to a full professorship in 2016. She received several teaching awards, including the Outstanding Educator Award. Susanna is a legal scholar specialising in intellectual property and technology-related laws. She has published in international and local journals and authored works such as Intellectual Property Law of Singapore. Her contributions have been cited by Singapore’s Court of Appeal and the High Court. She also serves in organisations like WIPO and IPOS. Susana received the Singapore Public Administration Medal (Silver) in 2022 for her contributions.

Jingwen Liu is a PhD candidate at the Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law and a legal journalist at JURIST. She has been listed as a WIPO ADR Young Member since 2023. Her research interests include intellectual property law, competition policy, data governance and comparative legal study. Her publications appear in various academic journals such as the Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts, American Business Law Journal, European Intellectual Property Review and Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice. Prior to commencing her PhD study, she was a practising lawyer in the People’s Republic of China specialising in trademark and brand protection. She also held a visiting position at Singapore Management University Yong Pung How School of Law in 2021.

Kal Raustiala is the Promise Distinguished Professor of Comparative and International Law at UCLA. His scholarship encompasses international law and intellectual property. He is the author, with Christopher Sprigman, of ‘The Piracy Paradox: Innovation and Intellectual Property in Fashion Design’ in the Virginia Law Review (2006) as well as many other articles on copyright, trademark and luxury goods. Their book The Knockoff Economy: How Imitation Sparks Innovation (Oxford University Press, 2012) has been translated into Japanese, Korean and both simplified and traditional Chinese.

Martin Senftleben is Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Director of the Institute for Information Law (IViR) at the Amsterdam Law School. His activities focus on the reconciliation of private intellectual property rights with competing public interests of a social, cultural or economic nature. His current research topics include institutionalised algorithmic copyright enforcement in the EU, the interplay between robot creativity and human literary and artistic productions, the preservation of the public domain of cultural expressions, and the impact of targeted advertising on supply and demand in market economies. Senftleben is a member of the Copyright Advisory Committee of the Dutch State. He has provided advice to WIPO in several trademark and copyright projects. He is the President of the European Copyright Society (ECS), President of the Trademark Law Institute (TLI), and a member of the Executive Committee of the Association Littéraire et Artistique Internationale (ALAI) and the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property Law (ATRIP). His numerous publications include Copyright, Limitations and the Three-Step Test (Kluwer Law International 2004), European Trade Mark Law ? A Commentary (with Annette Kur, Oxford University Press 2017) and The Copyright/Trademark Interface (Kluwer Law International 2020).

Christopher Jon Sprigman is the Murray and Kathleen Bring Professor of Law at NYU School of Law and Co-Director of NYU’s Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy. He teaches intellectual property law, antitrust law, torts and comparative constitutional law. His research focuses on how legal rules affect innovation and the deployment of new technologies. He is the author, with Kal Raustiala, of ‘The Piracy Paradox: Innovation and Intellectual Property in Fashion Design’ in the Virginia Law Review (2006) as well as many other articles on copyright, trademark and luxury goods. Their book The Knockoff Economy: How Imitation Sparks Innovation (Oxford University Press, 2012) has been translated into Japanese, Korean and both simplified and traditional Chinese.

David Tan is Co-Director of the Centre for Technology, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence & the Law and Head (Intellectual Property) of the EW Barker Centre for Law & Business at NUS Law, He holds PhD, LLB (First Class Honours) and BCom degrees from the University of Melbourne and an LLM from Harvard. He was also the valedictorian at Trinity College Melbourne. At NUS Law, David pioneered courses in Entertainment Law, Fashion Law, Freedom of Speech and Privacy & Data Protection Law; he has also taught as a visitor at Melbourne Law School, Tsinghua, Tokyo (Todai) and University of Hong Kong. His areas of research cover personality rights, copyright, trademarks, freedom of expression and tort law. He has published over 100 articles, comments and book chapters since joining NUS Law in 2008. David is also a fine art and fashion photographer and has had a number of solo exhibitions since 2000, including collaborations with Versace and Cartier (davidtanphoto.com).