Prof. William R. Cornish This is Me

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1. 1. Cambridge University - The IP unit

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   Published on: 7/10/2007   Last Visited: 7/10/2007

   William CornishWilliam R. Cornish, currently director of the IP Unit, is Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law and is currently President of Magdalene College.A graduate of Adelaide and Oxford Universities, with an LL.D. from Cambridge, he is a barrister and Bencher of Gray's Inn, and is attached to the Chambers of Michael Fysh QC (8, New Square, Lincoln's Inn).He became a Fellow of the British Academy in 1984.In the IP field he considers himself a generalist (probably too much so, given its rapid division of cells).
   
   As Professor of English Law at the London School of Economics (University of London) from 1970-1990 he was the first to develop the teaching of intellectual property law in a British law school.He has continued this work since his appointment to a Chair of Law at Cambridge University in 1990.He is also an External Academic Member of the Max-Planck-Institut für Patent-, Urheber- und Wettbewerbsrecht, Munich and an Editor of the Institute's journal, International Review for Industrial Property and Copyright.
   
   He has been Chairman of the British Literary and Artistic Copyright Association and is a Vice-President of the international society, ALAI, of which it is the British constituent; President of the International Association for Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property; founding member of the Council of the Intellectual Property Institute, London; chairman of the Intellectual Property Working Party of the National Academies Policy Action Group; Specialist Adviser to the House of Lords Committee on EC Legislation on trade marks and patents, and accordingly draftsman of two reports on these subjects; founding member of the Editorial Board of the European Intellectual Property Review; founding director of the Centre for European Legal Studies in the Cambridge Law Faculty.He is an active panellist for domain name issues at the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Centre.

2. 2. www.law.ed.ac.uk

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   Published on: 3/12/2007   Last Visited: 3/12/2007

   Professor William CornishWilliam Cornish-AHRC Research Centre for Studies in IP and IT Law
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   Professor William Cornish
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   William R. Cornish, currently director of the IP Unit, is Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law and is currently President of Magdalene College.A graduate of Adelaide and Oxford Universities, with an LL.D. from Cambridge, he is a barrister and Bencher of Gray's Inn, and is attached to the Chambers of Michael Fysh QC (8, New Square, Lincoln's Inn).He became a Fellow of the British Academy in 1984.In the IP field he considers himself a generalist (probably too much so, given its rapid division of cells).
   
   As Professor of English Law at the London School of Economics (University of London) from 1970-1990 he was the first to develop the teaching of intellectual property law in a British law school.He has continued this work since his appointment to a Chair of Law at Cambridge University in 1990.He is also an External Academic Member of the Max-Planck-Institut für Patent-, Urheber- und Wettbewerbsrecht, Munich and an Editor of the Institute's journal, International Review for Industrial Property and Copyright.
   
   He has been Chairman of the British Literary and Artistic Copyright Association and is a Vice-President of the international society, ALAI, of which it is the British constituent; President of the International Association for Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property; founding member of the Council of the Intellectual Property Institute, London; chairman of the Intellectual Property Working Party of the National Academies Policy Action Group; Specialist Adviser to the House of Lords Committee on EC Legislation on trade marks and patents, and accordingly draftsman of two reports on these subjects; founding member of the Editorial Board of the European Intellectual Property Review; founding director of the Centre for European Legal Studies in the Cambridge Law Faculty.He is an active panellist for domain name issues at the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Centre.

3. 3. Centre for Medical Genetics and Policy: Administration and governance

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   Published on: 6/24/2004   Last Visited: 12/23/2006

   Professor William Cornish
   
   Professor of Intellectual Property Law, University of Cambridge
   
   Co-opted member