The Professor Bill Cornish Memorial Lecture series has been established as an annual event by LSE academics Dr Martin Husovec and Dr Luke McDonagh to honour the late Professor Bill Cornish who passed away in 2022. During the late 1960s Prof Cornish pioneered the teaching of Intellectual Property Law at LSE, becoming the progenitor of intellectual property law scholarship and teaching in the United Kingdom. He spent nearly 30 years at the LSE between 1962 and 1990, from 1970 as a Professor of English Law. His work combined a deep knowledge of English legal history and intellectual property law, with a European and law-in-context outlook on the regulation of markets and technologies. The inaugural Cornish Memorial Lecture was given by Prof. Jane Ginsburg (Columbia) in 2023 and the 2024 lecture was given by Prof. Caroline Ncube (University of Cape Town). In the next years the lecture series will continue to feature eminent scholars who, like Prof Cornish, have contributed to the study of authorship, creativity, innovation and IP ownership. This year LSE welcomes Prof. Pam Samuelson to give the lecture.
Speaker: Professor Pam Samuelson (University of California, Berkeley)
Pamela Samuelson is the Richard M. Sherman Distinguished Professor of Law and Information at the University of California, Berkeley. She is recognized as a pioneer in digital copyright law, intellectual property, cyberlaw and information policy. Since 1996, she has held a joint appointment at Berkeley Law School and UC Berkeley’s School of Information. Samuelson is a director of the internationally renowned Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. She is co-founder and chair of the board of Authors Alliance, a nonprofit organization that promotes the public interest in access to knowledge. She also serves on the board of directors of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, as well as on the advisory boards for the Electronic Privacy Information Center, the Center for Democracy & Technology, and Public Knowledge.
Chairs: Dr Martin Husovec (LSE) and Dr Luke McDonagh (LSE)
Commentators: Prof. Martin Kretschmer (University of Glasgow) and Prof. Andrew Murray (LSE)
This event functions on a first-come, first-served basis. To secure your place, we recommend arriving early.