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Staff Profile

Dr Jiarong Zhang

Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law

  • Email: jiarong.zhang@ncl.ac.uk
  • Address: Rm 2.11 Law School

    Office Hours (Semester 1, 2024-25)
    10.00-12.00 Monday
    13.00-14.00 Monday
    In-person or online meeting
    By email appointment only
Background

Jiarong is a Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law. Her recent research interests include Intellectual Property Law, IP Law and Emerging/Digital Technologies, IP Law and Cultural Production, Critical IP Theory, and IP Legal History.

Before joining Newcastle Law School, Jiarong was an Assistant Professor in Intellectual Property Law at the School of Law, Trinity College Dublin (The University of Dublin), Ireland. At Trinity Law School, she taught several LLB and LLM modules, designed and developed a new module, supervised LLB and LLM degree dissertations, and co-supervised PhD projects. She also served the school as the Deputy Director of the LLM Program, the Erasmus Coordinator (incoming), and the contact point with the European Intellectual Property Office and European Patent Office.

Before joining Trinity, Jiarong pursued her PhD in Law at the School of Law and the CREATe Centre, University of Glasgow, Scotland. She was issued the Reviewer Certificate by the Journal of World Intellectual Property, the Certificate of Advanced Course on Intellectual Property, Traditional Knowledge, and Traditional Cultural Expressions and the Certificate of General Course on Intellectual Property by the World Intellectual Property Organisation Academy.

Earlier than this, she obtained an LLM by Research degree at the School of Intellectual Property, the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and an LLB degree at the School of Law, Nankai University, China. At the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, she worked as a research assistant and participated in several research projects funded by China National Intellectual Property Administration, the Supreme People’s Court of China, and the China Ministry of Science and Technology. She also worked as a Tutor at the World Intellectual Property Organisation Academy and as a Trainee Lawyer at Beijing Dentons Law Firm after succeeding in the Chinese National Judicial Examination in 2015.

In 2023, Dr Amy Thomas (CREATe, University of Glasgow) and Jiarong were awarded £13,361 by the Carnegie Trust for the project 'A Case Study of Robert Burns: Presenting a Distinct Theoretical Foundation for Scottish Copyright Law.' In 2023, Jiarong was awarded € 3000 by Trinity College Dublin for the project 'Data Monopoly and the Construction of the ‘Metaverse.’

Research

Recent Research Interests:

• Intellectual Property Law

• Intellectual Property Law and Emerging/Digital Technologies

• Intellectual Property Law and Cultural Production/Cultural Heritage/Traditional Knowledge/Traditional Cultural Expressions

• Critical Intellectual Property Theory

• Intellectual Property Legal History

Jiarong welcomes PhD applications related to her research interests and will support funding applications. She also welcomes PhD projects that are interdisciplinary (e.g., law and other subjects) or take critical, socio-legal or otherwise approaches. 



Recent Research Projects and Fundings:

• A Case Study of Robert Burns: Presenting a Distinct Theoretical Foundation for Scottish Copyright Law

Funder: Carnegie Trust

Amount: £ 13,361

Role: Co-Investigator (PI: Dr Amy Thomas, CREATe, University of Glasgow)



• Data Monopoly and the Construction of the ‘Metaverse’

Funder: Trinity College Dublin

Amount: € 3000

Role: Primary Investigator

Teaching

Current:

• Global Intellectual Property Law and Policy - LAW3055 (LLB)

• Legal Institutions and Method - LAW1210 (LLB)

• Intellectual Property Rights and Emerging Technologies - LAW8545 (LLM)

At Trinity College Dublin:

• Intellectual Property Law - LAU44071 (LLB)

• Industrial Property Law - LAU44271 (LLB)

• New Trends in Intellectual Property Law - LAU44016 (LLB)

• International and European Copyright Law and Policy - LA7092 (LLM)

• Intellectual Property Rights and Emerging Technologies - LA7143 (LLM)

• Dissertation - LA7047 (LLM)

At the University of Glasgow (Guest Lecturer):

• Intellectual Property, Technology, and Communities - LA5207 (LLM)

At the World Intellectual Property Organisation Academy (Tutor):

• Trademarks, Industrial Designs, and Geographical Indications

Publications