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Research interests
International Intellectual Property Law, European Patent Law, Human Rights, Regulation of New Biotechnologies, Bioethics.
Research interests
Professor Aurora Plomer joined the University of Bristol Law School in August 2016 from the University of Sheffield where she was Director of the Sheffield Institute of Biotechnology, Law and Ethics. She was previously a Reader in Law at the University of Nottingham and a Lecturer in Law at the University of Leeds. She graduated in Philosophy from the University of Lancaster (BA, MA, Ph.D.) and in Law at the University of Manchester (LLB).
Professor Plomer is currently working on a project for which she has been awarded a Major Research Fellowship by the Leverhulme Trust (September 2020 until August 2022). The aim of the project is to examine the history and rationale for the extension of property rights to companies in the European Convention on Human Rights. The outcome of this project will be a monograph on Intellectual Property and the Human Rights of Companies in Europe which will be published by Cambridge University Press. In the spring of 2022, Professor was a visiting senior fellow at the School of Law of the London School of Economics in connection with the project. Her research was published in the LSE Legal Studies working papers series in June 2022. You can read her paper 'Trading Intellectual Property Rights in Europe: from IP Nationalism to International IP' here.
Professor Plomer was a collaborator on an international project funded by the Academy of Finland (2016-2020) 'Constitutional Hedges of Intellectual Property' led by Prof. Tuomas Mylly. The project addresses the ways in which IP, investment Treaties and fundamental rights fence IP protection in Europe. Her chapter 'A Market Friendly Paradigm for IP Rights and Human Rights in Europe' can be accessed in the open access collection edited by J. Griffiths & T. Mylly, Global Intellectual Property and the New Constitutionalism (OUP, 2022).
Professor Plomer's recent research has focused on the interaction between intellectual property rights, human rights and innovation. In 2014, she was a Senior Fernand Braudel Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence where she researched the history of patent harmonization in Europe leading to the creation of the Unified Patent Court. Professor Plomer's latest book Patents, Human Rights and Access to Science (Edward Elgar, 2015) examines the historical and moral foundations of the right to access the benefits of science in international law and the implications for current debates on the monopolies created by patents in the life sciences. She has continued this line of research in a chapter 'IP Rights and Human Rights: What History tells us and why it matters' in an open access collection edited by H. Porsdam & Porsdam Mann 'The Right to Science then and now (CUP, 2021).
In September 2017, she was invited to take part in a high-level international meeting on Innovation for Sustainable Development organized by UNESCO and the Mexican state of Guanajuato. Her presentation on ‘Patents, Biotechnology and Global Justice’ drew on examples of R&D public-private partnerships in Europe to highlight the challenges in integrating the protection of fundamental human rights with IP rights. An expanded version of her presentation 'IP Right & Human Rights for Innovation and Sustainable Development has been published by UNESCO (2018).
Professor Plomer was a member of the European Commission’s panel of ethics experts on new technologies, health, and innovation in the FP7 and Horizon 2020 programs. She has been a visiting fellow at the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley; the Centre for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Stanford, the University of Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre, and the LSE school of law. Her research has been funded by UNESCO, the Council of Europe, the European Commission, the Brocher Foundation, the Wellcome Trust, the British Academy, and the ESRC.
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Projects
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CONST- IP: Constitutional Hedges of Intellectual Property
Plomer, A. & Mylly, T.
1/09/16 → 31/08/20
Project: Research
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ValEUR Research Project: ‘Governing values, governing through values, governed by values? The European Union as a risk polity
Foret, F. & Plomer, A.
1/01/16 → 31/12/19
Project: Research
Research output
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Trading Intellectual Property Rights in Europe: from IP Nationalism to International IP
Plomer, A., 29 Jun 2022, LSE, 20 p. (LSE Law Working Paper Series).Research output: Working paper
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A Market Friendly Paradigm for IP Rights and Human Rights in Europe
Plomer, A., 26 Nov 2021, Global Intellectual Property Protection and New Constitutionalism: Hedging Exclusive Rights. Griffiths, J. & Mylly, T. (eds.). Oxford University Press, p. 131 156 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter in a book
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IP Rights and Human Rights: What history tells us and why it matters
Plomer, A., 25 Nov 2021, The Right to Science then and now. Porsdam, H. & Porsdam Mann, S. (eds.). Cambridge University Press, p. 54-75 21 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter in a book
Open Access
Prizes
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Computer Assisted Tutorials (Tort)
Plomer, Aurora (Recipient), 2002
Prize: Prizes, Medals, Awards and Grants
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Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowship
Plomer, Aurora (Recipient), Sep 2014
Prize: Prizes, Medals, Awards and Grants
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Activities
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QMIPRI Annual Conference 2022
Aurora Plomer (Invited speaker)
10 Jun 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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London School of Economics and Political Science
Aurora Plomer (Visiting researcher)
1 Mar 2022 → 1 Jun 2022Activity: Visiting an external institution types › Visiting an external academic institution
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The Right to Science Symposium
Aurora Plomer (Invited speaker)
8 Oct 2020Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference