Jessica Lai | |
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Born | 1985 |
Awards | Rutherford Discovery Fellowship |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Victoria University of Wellington, University of Lucerne, Victoria University of Wellington |
Thesis | |
Academic advisors | Thomas Borrmann, Michael J Richardson |
Academic work | |
Institutions | Victoria University of Wellington, Victoria University of Wellington Victoria Business School |
Jessica Christine Lai is a New Zealand academic, and is a full professor at Victoria University of Wellington, specialising in the interaction of intellectual property rights and indigenous knowledge.
Lai is trained as a chemist, having completed a Master of Science in 2009 in chemistry with a thesis titled The Use of Nanostructured Calcium Silicate in Solar Cells at the Victoria University of Wellington. [1] Lai completed her Doctor of Law in 2013 at the University of Lucerne, where she also conducted postdoctoral research. [2] [3] Lai was awarded a Swiss National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship to work at the Max-Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich. [3] Lai then returned to New Zealand to join the faculty of the School of Accounting and Commercial Law at Victoria University of Wellington, rising to full professor. [3]
Lai's research focuses on the interaction between Western intellectual property systems and indigenous knowledge, specifically Mātauranga Māori. She has investigated how the patenting system addresses problematic technologies such as a gene-related technology, and also examines law and feminism, knowledge theorisation and legal sociology. Lai has written publicly about issues such as country of origin labelling, the difference between a trade mark and a certification mark in regards to the 'Rainbow tick', and differences between men and women in STEM. [4] [5] [6] [2] [3]
In 2018 Lai and colleague Susie Frankel were awarded a Marsden grant on "Mission Creep” in the Pharmaceutical Industry and its Impact on Innovation and Health. In 2021, Lai was awarded a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship for a project titled Patents and power: a critical analysis of knowledge governance. [2]
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