TEACHING LAW & TECH

Teaching has been at the heart of my academic practice since 2017. I currently teach Intellectual Property Law at Durham Law School, where I convene and lead the Introduction to IP Law module for postgraduate students. My teaching experience spans both civil & common law jurisdictions and diverse institutional settings, beginning at UNAM in Mexico (Contract Law; Introduction to Legal Thought) and continuing through my PhD days at Newcastle, where I led seminars in English Contract Law and Global IP Law. These experiences have equipped me to teach effectively across different group sizes, levels, and legal cultures.

At Durham, I work extensively within the tutorial system for the LLB, teaching contract and IP law. My tutorial teaching is a space for close intellectual engagement, tailored feedback, and the development of students’ independent legal reasoning. My teaching practice is grounded in the view that small-group teaching is central to cultivating analytical confidence and scholarly curiosity.

As an IP law educator, my pedagogical aim is to empower students to develop what I describe as an IP instinct: an ability to apprehend the world through the intersecting logics of creativity, innovation, and knowledge production. I present Intellectual Property not only as a body of legal doctrine, but as an architecture that structures how ideas are formed, circulate, and acquire value. At the same time, I foreground its tensions (particularly the ways in which IP regimes may privilege profit over the public good). My teaching encourages students to engage these tensions critically by asking who benefits, who is excluded, and how law shapes the conditions of creativity and innovation.

My teaching profile also includes invited and volunteer lecturing in international contexts. I have delivered online modules on informational privacy for summer schools organised by CIDE and the University of Salamanca. I have also contributed to the LLM in AI and Law at the University of Buenos Aires.

My teaching is research-led and closely aligned with my scholarly work in law and technology. I actively integrate contemporary debates into my modules, and I regularly supervise postgraduate dissertations on topics introduced through my teaching. This reciprocal relationship between research and teaching (where scholarship informs pedagogy and student engagement feeds back into research) forms a central pillar of my academic practice.