Dr Patrick Goold

Overview

Dr Goold is a legal philosopher with interests in intellectual property, property law, and private law theory.

Dr Goold's research has argued for a reconceptualization of intellectual property as a branch of tort law. His forthcoming monograph on this topic ('IP Accidents') highlights the growing and ignored problem of accidental infringement of IP rights and proposed greater use of negligence liability rules to deal with the problem. His research in this area has been (or will be) published by world-leading publishers, including Cambridge University Press, the Virginia Law Review, and the Berkeley Technology Law Journal.

At City, Dr Goold is the Co-Director of the LLB Programme, Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Pedagogy and Innovation, and the module leader for LLB Intellectual Property Law. He received the CLS Academic Impact Award for Teaching Excellence in 2019 and 2020.

Prior to joining City, Dr Goold was a fellow at Harvard Law School's Project on the Foundations of Private Law. He is a regular contributor to Harvard Law School's New Private Law Blog.

Qualifications

1. Attorney at Law, New York State Bar, Jul 2010
2. PhD, International Max Planck Research School for Competition and Innovation, Germany
3. LLM, Cornell Law School, USA
4. LLB, Newcastle University, UK

Employment

1. Lecturer, The City Law School, Sep 2018 – present
2. Qualcomm Fellow and Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School, Aug 2016 – Aug 2018
3. IP Fellow, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law, Jul 2014 – Jul 2016
4. Microsoft Fellow, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, Oct 2012 – Jun 2014

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