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Professor Johanna Gibson, BA (Hons I), MA, PGDipAppSci, JD (Queensland), PhD (Edinburgh), Solicitor and Barrister to the Supreme Court of Victoria

Johanna

Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law

Email: j.gibson@qmul.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8068
Room Number: Lincoln's Inn Fields
Website: https://johannagibson.org/

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Follow Professor Gibson on Instagram, Threads, Bluesky @ProfJohanna and connect on LinkedIn. Professor Gibson also convenes the Film Fashion Forum at CCLS which you can follow on LinkedIn.

Johanna Gibson is Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law, Director of the LLM, and Academic Director of the Fashion Law LLM. She is also Editor-In-Chief of the Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property (QMJIP). She has consulted widely to industry, government, NGOs and practitioners, and has been a visiting professor to institutions around the world, including the Queensland University of Technology (Australia), Monash University (Australia), the University of Toronto (Canada) and the Institute of Musical Research (School of Advanced Studies, UK). Johanna’s research interests are in intellectual property and the creative industries, particularly fashion and film, and animal welfare law and companion animal behaviour and science.

Johanna has published extensively in the fields of intellectual property, critical theory, and animal studies, is series editor for Intellectual Property, Theory, Culture (Routledge) and series co-editor (with Trevor Cook) for Intellectual Property: Practitioner Series (Edward Elgar Publishing), and has held numerous research council grants and private research consultancies across a range of issues and areas in intellectual property, consumer behaviour and welfare. She has considerable media experience across television, radio and newspapers, including interviews with CNBC, BBC Radio 4, Wall Street Journal, The Guardian and The Times. Johanna was previously Director of the Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute (QMIPRI) 2007-2014 and Director of the Intellectual Property Institute (2010-2013). Before joining CCLS, Johanna practised law in Melbourne, Australia at Allens Arthur Robinson, specialising in Intellectual Property, Media and Communications Law and Competition Law.

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