Justine Pila

Justine Pila is a Professor of Law at the University of Oxford and a Tutorial Fellow at St Catherine's College, where she also serves as College Counsel and Secretary to the Governing Body. She holds a part-time professorship at the University of Bergen (until 2024). Her research focuses on intellectual property law, regulation, and law-technology intersections, with notable contributions to patent eligibility, biotechnology law, and EU legal harmonization. She co-chairs the 'Health, Law and Emerging Technologies' Research Group and is a Research Fellow at the Institute of European and Comparative Law.

Her teaching spans graduate courses on Law, Regulation and Technology, Comparative Copyright, and EU Law. She has supervised numerous DPhil students in intellectual property and technology law domains. Pila earned her undergraduate degrees in Law and Arts from the University of Melbourne, practiced as an IP solicitor, and completed a PhD in Law focusing on patents.

Her publications include influential monographs like *The Requirement for an Invention in Patent Law* (OUP 2010) and edited volumes such as *The Oxford Handbook of Intellectual Property Law* (2018). Her recent work addresses post-pandemic patent systems, AI-driven regulatory challenges, and the ethical dimensions of biotechnology patents.

• Awards: None explicitly listed, though her contributions have earned significant academic recognition.
• Grants/Labs: Active in interdisciplinary research through Oxford’s Health, Law and Emerging Technologies Group and the Institute of European and Comparative Law.