Professor Spyros Maniatis, LLB (Athens), LLM (London), PhD (London)
Honorary Professor
Profile
Professor Spyros Maniatis is Professor of Intellectual Property Law and was Head of the Centre for Commercial Law Studies until 2018. During that time he encouraged the growth of the Centre in terms of size, portfolio of activities, and international reputation. The Centre now has more than 1200 postgraduate taught and research students from around 100 jurisdictions.
Professor Maniatis led the internationalisation strategy for CCLS and developed a number of programmes away from London, including: a CCLS LLM in Paris; a double LLM programme in Paris with the Sorbonne; a double LLM programme with Singapore Management University, and an executive LLM in shipping in Piraeus.
Under his leadership CCLS has added new areas to its teaching and research specialisms with shipping, energy, insurance, art, regulation, and language and the law now amongst its offerings. A new MBA/LLMA with ESCP Europe, a Masters in Compliance and Regulation, and a distance learning MBA with the University of London has also been developed.
Prior to his appointment as Head of CCLS Professor Maniatis oversaw, as LLM Director, the successful transition of our offerings from the University of London intercollegiate LLM to a QMUL LLM.
The third edition of his work on the development of trade mark law in Europe came out in 2016.
He has worked closely with the IP professions contributing to the Certificate in Trade Mark Law and Practice with the Chartered Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys.