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Gail Elizabeth Evans BA (Hons), Dip.Ed., LLB, SJD (University of Sydney)
Gail Evans is Reader in Intellectual Property Law at Queen Mary, University of London. She has held academic positions in Australia and the United States, teaching a variety of commercial law subjects including International Intellectual Property, International Business Law and Cyberlaw. She has a doctorate in law from the University of Sydney, which was awarded for her work on the emerging constitutionalism of the World Trade Organization and the making of the TRIPS Agreement. Her thesis, entitled Lawmaking under the Trade Constitution: A Study in Legislating by the World Trade Organization, was published by Kluwer Law International in 2000. A second edition of the book is in progress. Gail Evans also works extensively as a legal expert, mediator and consultant in the field of intellectual property management and capacity building in Europe and the Asia Pacific. Recently, Gail became a faculty member at the Duke-Geneva Institute in Transnational Law where she is teaching International Intellectual Property Law. Further information is available on her website at www.gaileevans.com.
Research Interests
Gail Evans' current research projects concern TRIPS jurisprudence, TRIPS and Public International Law; patenting of living matter; and online contracts and intellectual property.
Publications Since 2001
The Protection of Geographical Indications after Doha: Quo Vadis? (Co-author with M. Blakeney) [2006] 9(3) Journal of International Economic Law 1- 40, ISSN: 1369-3034 [URL]
Online Contracts, in H. Bidgoli (Editor), Handbook of Information Security Volume II, Chapter 19, Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2006, ISBN: 0471648337 [URL]
TRIPS and Trade Mark Use, in J. Phillips and I. Simon (Editors), Trade Mark Use, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, 279-311, ISBN: 0199280339 [URL]
Corporate-Led Regulation of Intellectual Property: Private Power, Public Law: The Globalization of Intellectual Property Rights, by S.K. Sell [2005] 7(1) International Studies Review 70-74, ISSN: 1521-9488 [URL]
Comment on the Terms of Reference and Procedure for the Second WIPO Internet Domain Name Process [2001] 23(2) European Intellectual Property Review 61-65, ISSN: 0142-0461 [URL]
Other Selected Publications
Lawmaking under the Trade Constitution: A Study in Legislating by the World Trade Organization, Boston: Kluwer Law International, 2000, 282, ISBN: 9041198067 [URL]
