Teaching has been at the heart of my academic journey since 2017. I currently teach Intellectual Property Law at Durham Law School, where I also lead the Introduction to IP Law module for postgraduate students. My teaching path began at UNAM in Mexico, where I taught courses on Contract Law and Introduction to Legal Thought. During my PhD at Newcastle, I led seminars in English Contract Law and Global IP Law. 

As an IP law educator, my aim is to empower students to cultivate what I call an “IP instinct”; a way of apprehending the world through the intertwined logics of creativity, innovation, and knowledge-making. Intellectual Property is not merely a body of legal doctrine; it is an architecture that organizes how ideas take form, circulate, and acquire value. Yet it is also a system that can privilege profit over the public good, consolidating power as much as it enables creation. In my teaching, I encourage students to engage these tensions critically: to ask who benefits, who is excluded, and how the law structures the conditions of creativity and innovation.

In my undergraduate courses, I focus on introducing core legal principles and organizing collaborative group tasks to foster engagement. For advanced learners, I curate reading lists tied to societal challenges and lead discussions through specific questions that prompt the group to critically analyze legal norms, their rationale, and societal impact.

While my approach varies between undergraduate and master’s courses, providing foundational knowledge for the former and practical, hands-on learning for the latter, I find that undergraduates often bring a fresh perspective and a unique capacity to challenge and reassess implicit thinking and assumptions in the the legal domain.