Barbara Lauriat
Email: blauriat@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-5814
Barbara Lauriat has taught and conducted research in most areas of intellectual property law, including copyright, patents, and trademarks, in the United States and abroad. She began her legal academic career in England, where she taught intellectual property law subjects to undergraduate, L.L.M., and Ph.D. students at King’s College London from 2011-2022, after serving as the Career Development Fellow in Intellectual Property Law and a Fellow of St. Catherine’s College at the University of Oxford from 2008-2010.
She has previously held visiting positions as the Frank H. Marks Fellow in Intellectual Property Law at George Washington University Law School, a Faculty Fellow at the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study, a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for the Internet & Society at Harvard University, a Faculty Research Fellow of the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre at the University of Oxford, a Scholar-in-Residence in the International Arbitration Department at WilmerHale London, a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the New Zealand Centre for International Economic Law, a Hauser Global Research Fellow at New York University School of Law, and a Visiting Scholar at the University of British Columbia. She was appointed an Academic Fellow of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple (2013-2016) and thereafter an Associate Academic Fellow. She won first prize in the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP) Essay Competition in 2013 and was the winner of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A.’s Seton Award in 2015.
As a law student, she was an editor on the BU Law Review and was later elected General Editor of the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal (2007/2008). She currently serves on the editorial board of Arbitration International.
She is a member of the Bars of Massachusetts and New Hampshire (inactive) and was Called to the Bar of England and Wales in 2018.
In Fall 2025, she will be teaching and researching at LUISS Guido Carli in Rome, Italy
as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar.
View her CV here.
Education
- A.A. Mount Wachusett Community College
- B.A. Boston University
- J.D. Boston University School of Law
- D.Phil. University of Oxford
Courses
- Copyright Law
- Intellectual Property Law
- Patent Law
- Torts
- Trademarks and Unfair Competition
Selected Publication
Books
Intellectual Property and Victorian Inquiry: The Royal Commissions on Patent (1864) And Copyright (1878).(Bloomsbury, forthcoming).
With Frederick Mostert, Famous and Well-Known Marks: An International And Comparative Analysis of Paris Convention 6bis(3rd Ed.) (Edward Elgar, forthcoming).
Edited Collection
Improving Intellectual Property: A Global Project (Susy Frankel, Margaret Chon, Graeme Dinwoodie, Barbara Lauriat & Jens Schovsbo,
eds. 2023).
Articles
Borrowing Goodwill,67 B.C. L. Rev.__ (forthcoming, March 2026).
With Robert Brauneis, Cancelling Copyrights, 49 COLUM. J. L. & ARTS__ (forthcoming, January 2026).
FRAND Arbitration Will Destroy FRAND, 30 MICH. TECH. L. REV. (2024).
“Pay No Attention to the Comparable Behind the Curtain!”—The Harms of Opacity in Standard Essential Patent Licensing, 38 BERK. TECH. L. J. 463 (2023).
Literary and Dramatic Disputes in Shakespeare’s Time, 9 J. INT’L DISP. SETTLEMENT 45 (2018).
Free Trade in Books: The 1878 Royal Commission on Copyright, 61(4) J. COPYR. SOC. U.S.A. 635 (2014). (Winner of 2015 Seton Award).
Revisiting the Royal Commission on Copyright, 17 J. WORLD I.P.47 (2014).
“The Examination of Everything”: Royal Commissions in British Legal History, 31 STATUT. L. REV. 24 (2010).
Charles Reade’s Roles in the Drama of Victorian Dramatic Copyright, 33 COLUM. J. L. & ARTS 1 (2009).
Book Chapters
“Samsung v. Apple,” in LEADING CASES IN FRAND (Edward Elgar) (forthcoming January 2026).
Navigating Public, Private, National, and Global: International Commercial Arbitration of Patent Disputes, in IMPROVING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: A GLOBAL PROJECT (Margaret Chon, Graeme Dinwoodie, Susy Frankel, Barbara Lauriat & Jens Schovsbo, eds.) (2023).
Walter v. Lane [1900], in LANDMARKS IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW 149 (2017).
“Passing Off, the Internet, and the Global Marketplace” in THE INTERNET AND THE EMERGING IMPORTANCE OF NEW FORMS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 59 (2016).
Copyright History in the Advocate’s Arsenal, in HISTORY OF COPYRIGHT LAW: A HANDBOOK OF CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH 7 (2015).
School of Law
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Address
Texas Tech University School of Law, 3311 18th Street, Lubbock, Texas 79409-0004 -
Phone
806.742.3791 -
Email
law@ttu.edu