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Twenty Second Annual Darwin College Lecture Series 2007

IDENTITY

Lecture 5   :   16 February

IDENTITY AND THE LAW

Lionel Bently

University of Cambridge

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Biography

Lionel Bently has been the Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Director of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law at the University of Cambridge since October 2004. He is also a Professorial Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He is co-author (both with Brad Sherman) of Intellectual Property Law (Oxford, OUP, 2001; 2nd ed, 2004) and The Making of Modern Intellectual Property Law - The British Experience, 1760-1911 (Cambridge: CUP, 1999). He is also the author of Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Problems Facing Freelance Creators in the UK Media Market-Place (London: Institute of Employment Rights, 2002) and co-editor (with David Vaver) of Intellectual Property in the New Millennium: Essays in Honour of Professor William Cornish (Cambridge: CUP, 2004). With Martin Kretschmer, he is co-director of an AHRC funded resource enhancement project developing a digitial resource of primary documents relating to copyright history from five jurisdictions (the US, UK, France, Germany and Italy).

The lectures are given at 5.30 p.m. in The Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue, with an adjacent overflow theatre with live TV coverage. Each lecture is typically attended by 600 people so you must arrive early to ensure a place.