Prof. Dr. Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan, UK/Germany

Prof. Dr. Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan, UK/Germany

International Intellectual Property Law and Policy (including TRIPS) (Module 5)

Prof. Dr. Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan is a University Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of King’s College. In Cambridge, Prof. Dr. Grosse Ruse-Khan is Co-Director of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law and a Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law. He also holds positions at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich (Germany) and the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (McGill University, Montreal). For 2016, Prof. Dr. Grosse Ruse-Khan has been elected as Distinguished Senior Fellow at Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki (Finland).

His research and teaching focuses on international intellectual property protection and development issues, world trade and investment law, as well as on interfaces among distinct legal orders in international law. Next to a recent monograph on international IP protection (OUP, 2016), Prof. Dr. Grosse Ruse-Khan has published widely in peer-reviewed academic journals, NGO policy papers and research handbooks.

Prof. Dr. Grosse Ruse-Khan teaches IP and WTO Law at the University of Cambridge and further at the Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI, Strasbourg), the Munich Intellectual Property Law Centre (MIPLC), the University of Berlin and the Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki. He is member of the editorial board of the International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law (IIC) and co-founder of the international IP network at the Society of International Economic Law (SIEL). He has advised international organisations, NGOs as well as developing- and developed country governments on international IP, WTO and investment law issues and has worked as a legal expert for the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) on IP and development on several occasions.