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Dr. Amaka Vanni is a Senior Lecturer in Intellectual Property (IP) Law and Programme Manager for the LLM Intellectual Property Law Program at the University of Leeds' School of Law. She holds affiliations with the Centre for Business Law and Practice (CBLP) and the Centre for Law and Social Justice (LSJ). Her work bridges academia, policy, and practice, focusing on global IP governance, pharmaceutical patents, and access to medicines in the Global South.
Education: PhD in Law (University of Warwick), LLM in International Economic Law (Warwick), BA in International Relations and Politics (Keele University). She has held visiting scholar positions at institutions including the Working Group on Intellectual Property in Brazil, Jawaharlal Nehru University in India, and Nigeria's Federal Ministry of Trade.
Research interests include critical legal theories (TWAIL, critical race theory), colonialism and IP, philanthropic influence on IP governance, and AI-invention dynamics. Key outputs include her monograph 'Patent Games in the Global South' (Hart, 2020) and co-edited volume 'Intellectual Property Law and Access to Medicines' (Routledge, 2021).
Awards include the 2018 SIEL-Hart Prize. Grants include UKRI Enhancing Research Culture Fund and SSHRC support. She mentors early-career scholars via the IEL Collective and served as President of the African International Economic Law Network (AfIELN).
Teaching focuses on IP law modules at postgraduate levels, including patents, copyright, and biotechnology law. She supervises dissertations and leads research projects on critical race studies in IP and human-AI collaboration in innovation.
