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Founding Members and Executive Committee

Hasan Kadir Yilmaztekin is a PhD candidate and a scholar of the School of Law at the University of Exeter. Hasan’s research interests include international intellectual property law, human rights law and particularly the interfaces between these two fields of law. A strong proponent for “a fair culture” ideal in intellectual property law, Hasan, in his research project, focuses on the after-TRIPs era, its new IP architecture and its impacts on the human rights obligations of the states from human development perspective. He earned his LLB from the University of Ankara and his LLM in International Business Law with distinction from the University of Exeter.  In June 2014, Hasan was awarded the Golding Essay Prize for his essay titled “Lucasfilm and Solvay: Does being admitted to a court suffice to attain access to justice for foreign intellectual property rights?”by the Competition Law Association. He was also selected as one of the first scholars of the International Law Association’s Regional Conference held in Lisbon in September 2014.  

 

 

Mathilde Pavis is an AHRC-funded PhD researcher based at the School of Law of the University of Exeter. She teaches in a variety of module including Intellectual Property Law, French of Contract and French Administrative Law. She is currently a member of the intersdiciplinary InVisible Difference Project and works as a research assistant for Pr. Waelde Charlotte in collaboration with Hasan. In March 2014 she received the first prize of the Interleges Essay Competition for her article titled: 'True-shareholderism is stakeholderist.' 

Mathilde's research interest in Intellectual Property Laws focuses mainly on Copyright and Performers' Rights in their interaction with contemporary forms of art including performing practices. For the purpose of her thesis, she analyses the legal understanding of creativity in various jurisdictions as reflected in caselaw and statutory provisions. She argues in favour of reforming performers' rights to better the legal protection of this class of artists. Her research adopts a comparative approach and relies on performing arts studies and creativity reseach. 

 

 

Co-Founders and Executive Committee Members

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