Prof Susy Frankel
Professor
School of Law
address
Phone: 04 463 6350
Fax: 04 463 6365
Location: Room 303, Government Building, 55 Lambton Quay, Pipitea Campus
Currently Teaching
LAWS 393 - Special Topic: Patent Law and Innovation
Course Coordinator
LLB (Hons) Well, LLM Lond
Profile
Susy's main research and teaching interests are intellectual property law and international trade law. Susy also teaches the law of contract. She has published a range of articles and book chapters and given numerous conference presentations on various aspects of copyright, trade marks and patents, and international trade. She is Co-Director (with Meredith Kolsky Lewis) of the New Zealand Centre of International Economic Law.
Susy holds an LLM in Intellectual Property from the University of London. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of World Intellectual Property Law. In addition to her position at the university, Susy is Chair of the Copyright Tribunal (NZ). Susy has also held the position of an Assistant Commissioner of Trade Marks, Patents and Designs for the Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand. In that capacity she was a Hearings Officer in relation to disputed trade mark registrations.
She also holds an appointment as an arbitrator and mediator for the World Intellectual Property Organisation Arbitration and Mediation Center, Geneva. Before joining Victoria University, in 1997, Susy practiced law in New Zealand and London. Susy qualified as Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand in 1988 and as a Solicitor of England & Wales in 1991.
Research Interests
- International Intellectual Property Law
- New Zealand Intellectual Property Law
- International Trade Law
Areas of Supervision (PhD and LLM)
- NZ and International Intellectual Property Law
- International Trade Law
- Contract Law
- Civil Remedies
Current Research
Susy's current research projects include:
- Project Leader Law Foundation Regulatory Reform Project
- “Intellectual Property Law for a Small Developed Country with a Market Economy” (This project is supported by a Law Foundation Research Grant.)
- The Use of Free Trade Agreements to Project Traditional Knowledge
Selection of Publications
"Challenging TRIPS - Plus FTAs - the Potential Utility of Non-Violation Complaints" (2009) 12(4) Journal of International Economic Law pp 1023-1065.
"An Experimental use Exception for New Zealand" in The Journal of World Intellectual Property (special issue: Patent Law Reform: Getting it Right to Support and Drive Innovation) 17(5) pp 446-466.
“Trade Marks, Traditional Knowledge and Cultural Intellectual Property” in Graeme B Dinwoodie and Mark D Janis (eds) Trade Mark Law and Theory: A Handbook of Contemporary Research (Edward Elgar Press, USA, 2007) available at SSRN.
“The WTO’s Application of ‘the Customary Rules of Interpretation of Public International Law’ to Intellectual Property” (2005) 46 Virginia Journal of International Law
pp 365-428.
"Third-Party Trade Marks as a Violation of Indigenous Cultural Property- A New Statutory Safeguard" (2005) (8) The Journal of World Intellectual Property Law pp 83-98.
“A Patentable Invention: Will Current Proposed Law Reform Clarify Patentable Subject Matter?” (2005) NZ Business Law Quarterly pp 350-365.