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About

Overview

Dr Goold holds degrees in philosophy, politics, economics, and law. He teaches and writes about intellectual property, private law, jurisprudence, and law and technology.

Qualifications

  • Senior Fellow, Advance HE, Dec 2021
  • Attorney at Law, New York State Bar, Jul 2010
  • PhD, International Max Planck Research School for Competition and Innovation, Germany
  • LLM, Cornell Law School, USA
  • LLB, Newcastle University, UK
  • BA (PPE) (expected 2024), The Open University, UK

Employment

  • Senior Lecturer, The City Law School, Aug 2020 – Aug 2022
  • Lecturer, The City Law School, Sep 2018 – Aug 2020
  • Qualcomm Fellow and Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School, Aug 2016 – Aug 2018
  • IP Fellow, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law, Jul 2014 – Jul 2016
  • Microsoft Fellow, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, Oct 2012 – Jun 2014

Research students

1st supervisor

  • Nouf Ali S Algazlan, Research Student

Publications

Featured publications

  1. Goold, P.R. (2022). IP Accidents. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-108-84148-1.
  2. Goold, P. and Simon, D. (2024). On Copyright Utilitarianism. Indiana law journal (Indianapolis, Ind. : 1926).
  3. Goold, P. and Simon, D. (2022). Lucky IP. Oxford Journal of Legal Studies. doi:10.1093/ojls/gqac006.
  4. Goold, P.R. (2016). Unbundling the "tort" of copyright infringement. Virginia Law Review, 102(8), pp. 1833–1899.
  5. Goold, P. and Bracha, O. (2016). Copyright Accidents. Boston University Law Review, 96(3), pp. 1025–1091.

Publications by category

Books (2)

  • Goold, P. (2024). A Critical Introduction to Intellectual Property Law: Text, Cases, and Materials (forthcoming). Cambridge University Press.
  • Goold, P. and Bonadio, E. (Eds.), (2023). The Cambridge Handbook of Investment-Driven Intellectual Property. Cambridge University Press.

Chapter

  • Goold, P. (2023). The Philosophical Foundations of Investment-Driven IP. The Cambridge Handbook of Investment-Driven Intellectual Property (pp. 341–350). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-108-83919-8.

Journal articles (15)

  • Goold, P., Mimler, M., Bonadio, E. and Green, E. (2023). Mind the Gap: Analysing the Disconnect Between IP Research and IP Policy. EIPR, 45(8), pp. 439–443.
  • Goold, P. (2022). Intellectual Property's Faith-Based Empiricism. The Green Bag: an entertaining journal of law.
  • Goold, P.R. (2022). The Legal Judgment: A Novel Twist on the Classic Law School Problem Question. The Law Teacher, 56(3), pp. 368–383. doi:10.1080/03069400.2021.2000232.

    [publisher’s website]

  • Goold, P. (2021). A Radical Restructuring? A Response to Bell and Parchomovsky, Restructuring Copyright Infringement. Texas Law Review Online, 99, pp. 101–110.
  • Goold, P. (2021). The Curious Case of Computer-Generated Works under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Intellectual Property Quarterly, 2, pp. 119–129.
  • Goold, P. (2021). Moral Reflections on Strict Liability in Copyright. Columbia Journal of Law and the Arts, 44(2), pp. 123–156.

    [publisher’s website]

  • Goold, P. (2020). Patent Accidents: Questioning Strict Liability in Patent Law. Indiana Law Journal, 95(4), pp. 1075–1135.
  • Goold, P. (2018). The Lost Tort of Moral Rights Invasion. Akron Law Review, 51(4), pp. 1093–1125.
  • Goold, P. (2017). The Interpretive Argument for a Balanced Three-Step Test? American University International Law Review, 33(1), pp. 187–230.
  • Goold, P. (2017). Intent in Patent Infringement. Florida Law Review Forum, 68, pp. 93–100.

    [publisher’s website]

  • Goold, P. (2015). Is Copyright Infringement a Strict Liability Tort? Berkeley Technology Law Journal, 30(1), pp. 305–383. doi:10.15779/Z38MP32.

    [publisher’s website]

  • Goold, P. (2014). Why the U.K. Adaptation Right is Superior to the U.S. Derivative Work Right. Nebraska Law Review, 92, pp. 843–896.
  • Goold, P. (2014). Corrective Justice and Copyright Infringement. Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law, 16(2), pp. 251–295.
  • Goold, P. (2012). The Evolution of Normative Legal Scholarship: The Case of Copyright Discourse. European Journal of Legal Studies, 5, pp. 23–29.
  • Goold, P.R. Artificial Authors: Case Studies of Copyright in Works of Machine Learning. SSRN Electronic Journal. doi:10.2139/ssrn.3734574.

    [publisher’s website]

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