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Professor Uma Suthersanen is a distinguished academic at Queen Mary University of London, holding the Chair in Global Intellectual Property Law within the School of Law's Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS). She has been affiliated with Queen Mary since her early career, progressing from a Herchel Smith Research Fellow to becoming a tenured lecturer in 2001 and later a chaired professor in 2009. Her academic roles include former Director of the Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute (2019–2023) and Academic Director of the LLM Intellectual Property Law and Paris IP LLM programs.
Her research focuses on intellectual property law's socio-economic dimensions, including traditional knowledge, copyright, design law, and the intersection of IP with cultural heritage and global development. She has authored seminal texts such as Copinger & Skone-James on Copyright and Global Intellectual Property Law, and edited major reports for the European Commission and UNCTAD. She sits on the Executive Committee of the British Literary and Artistic Copyright Association (ALAI-UK) and has advised international bodies like WIPO, UNESCO, and the EU Parliament.
Professor Suthersanen has secured significant grants, including EU funding for studies on design law and orphan works. Her work has influenced policy globally, with her analyses cited in EU legal reviews and international trade agreements. She has supervised over 30 PhD students, mentoring research on topics ranging from AI and IP to traditional knowledge protection. Her awards include the 2021 European Communities Trade Mark Association Award and Fellowship in the Royal Society of Arts.
Her current projects include re-theorizing IP frameworks through Karl Polanyi's socio-economic concepts and exploring the governance of traditional knowledge within international law. She remains active in global legal education, having taught at over a dozen international institutions and contributed to WIPO's academic programs.
