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Dr Siva Thambisetty

Dr Siva Thambisetty

Associate Professor of Law

ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Law School

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Languages
English
Key Expertise
Law

About me

Siva Thambisetty is an Associate Professor of Law at the London School of Economics, where she teaches and researches on the legal protection of inventions, innovation in emerging technologies, cultural property and the use and circulation of genetic resources. Among others, she has previously held grants from the EPSRC for a project on synthetic biology at Imperial College and an EU Horizon 2020 grant for a study on marine genetic resources under the Nagoya Protocol. Dr Thambisetty attended intergovernmental negotiations on the BBNJ Treaty, first as an advisor to the Pacific Small Island Developing States (IGC2, IGC3) and second, as an expert on the G77 Chair’s Team in 2022 (IGC5) and 2023 (Resumed IGC5).

From 2019 to 2023 her work and publications on the Treaty negotiations was funded by ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Knowledge Exchange and Impact. She currently leads a project on a KEI funded Oceans Biodiversity Collective, engaging in policy conversations on the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Treaty.

For more about her work on the Treaty, read further details or .

 ‘The Oceans Treaty as a Win for Multilateralism: What Comes Next’

Administrative support: Law.Reception@lse.ac.uk

Articles

  •  ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Legal Studies Working Paper 10/2024 (with Paul Oldham)
  • ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Legal Studies Working Paper No. 24/2023 87 Modern Law Review (2024) Forthcoming
  •  ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Legal Studies Working Paper Series 30/2023 (with P Oldham and Claudio Chiarolla)
  •  ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Law - Policy Briefing Paper No. 53 (with P Oldham and Claudio Chiarolla)
  • , in Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction: Intractable Challenges and Potential Solutions, M.H. Nordquist and R. Long (Eds) (Brill Nijhoff, 2020) 131–146  
  • Siva Thambisetty, Aisling McMahon, Luke McDonagh, Hyo Yoon Kang and Graham Dutfield, ‘’ Cambridge Law Journal 81 (2022) 384-416.
  • ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Law Policy Briefing Paper 48/2022
  • ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Law Working Paper Series 19/2020
  • ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Law Working Paper Series 03/2018
  • Intellectual Property Quarterly  (2017) 3 pp.221-244 [ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Law Working Paper Series, 07-2015]
  • (Peer Commentary on Prof Dan Burk ‘Alice and Dolly’) Journal of Law and the Biosciences (2016)  3 (3) pp.691-696
  • Intellectual Property Quarterly  2014 (1) pp.13-39.
  • Q.M.J.I.P. 2014, 4 (1), 79-94
  • Complexity, Divergence and Confusion’ in Ng, D’Agostino and Bently Ed.The Common Law of Intellectual Property: Essays in Honour of Professor David Vaver (Hart 2010) [ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Law, Society and Economy Working Paper Series (WPS 6/2013)]
  • ‘Why Patent Law Doesn’t do Innovation Policy’ in (2013)  Concurrences, 2013 (4). 13. [ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Legal Studies Working Paper no 20/2013]
  • European Intellectual Property Review 2010, 32(5), 238-246
  • European Intellectual Property Review  2010, 32(4), 143-145
  • S Thambisetty and K Kumaramangalam 'Peer-review and Patents: Why the Goose that Lays the Golden Egg may be a Red Herring'  171 30 European Intellectual Property Review (2008) 171-173
  • 'Legal Transplants in Patent Law: Why Utility is the New Industrial Applicability' 49 Jurimetrics J 155-201 (2009) [ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Law and Society Working Paper, 06/March 2008)]
  • 'Timing, Change and Continuity in the Patent System' in Sebastian Haunss and Kenneth C Shadlen Eds. The Politics of Intellectual Property: Contestation over the Ownership, Use, and Control of Knowledge and Information. (Edward Elgar, 2009) 211-237.
  • Oxford Journal of Legal Studies Vol 27, no 4, pp 707-740, 2007  [first appeared in ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Law, Society and Economy Working Paper Series, WPS 04-2007 July 2007] 
  • in Christian Lenk Ed. Ethics and Law of Intellectual Property: Current Problems in Politics, Science and Technology, Chapter 13 (Ashgate 2007) 
  • Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics 12 March 2002 pp 48-53.
  • 'Database Access Crucial for Developing Countries' Nature Biotechnology, August 2002, p 775
  • 'Database Access Crucial for Developing Countries' Nature Biotechnology, August 2002, p 775
  • 'Human Genome Research in Developing Countries: Problems and Proposals' Journal of World Intellectual Property Vol: 5 No: 5 September 2002, pp 685-723.

External activities

  • Advisor to the G77 plus China group – BBNJ Treaty Negotiations (2022-23) 
  • Advisor to the Pacific Small Island Developing States – BBNJ Treaty Negotiations (2019-2020)

Grants

1. EPSRC Discipline Hopping Grant ‘Synthetic Biology: Generativity and the Limits of Intellectual Property Law’ ((PI, 2011-12, £86,000).

2. EU Horizon 2020 INMARE Project ‘The Implementation of the Nagoya Protocol’ (PI, 2015-2019, 165,000 euros). Funding includes Band 7 post- doctoral research officer position and teaching buy out.

3. KEI Project on the Ocean Biodiversity Collective. 

Research interests

I work on legal protection of technology; and the use, circulation and ownership of genetic resources. I am currently working on Treaty interpretation of the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Treaty

Teaching