Biography

Phoebe undertook her PhD at the AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law (AHRC/SCRIPT) at Edinburgh University. Her PhD thesis considered the extent to which the role of precaution, as a policy tool for risk regulation, should play at the interface between intellectual property (IP) and the right to health under globalisation. A monograph based on her doctoral work 'Health technologies and international intellectual property law: A precautionary approach' will be published by Routledge in 2013.

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Whilst completing her doctoral studies, Phoebe also served as a part-time Research Assistant at AHRC/SCRIPT, working with Prof Charlotte Waelde (Exeter) and Dr Abbe Brown (Aberdeen) for the collaborative consultation response project of the Intellectual Property Foresight Forum (IPFF) and the Information Technology Think Tank (ITTT). She also participated in Dr Elisa Morgera’s (Edinburgh) ‘Environmental integration in the EU’s external relations’ project, and contributed to online teaching for the eLLM 'International Public Health: Law and Security' module. Phoebe was involved in the updating of a leading textbook 'Contemporary Intellectual Property: Law and Policy' (OUP, 3rd edition). More recently, she has been working with colleagues from the Law and Engineering departments at Exeter University on an interdisciplinary project, the objective of which is to explore the relationship between 3D printing and intellectual property law, specifically in the 3D chocolate printing scenarios.      

Role

Lecturer in Law

Overseas Students Tutor

Phoebe is interested in exploring the interface between world trade, intellectual property, and technology regulation, and the extent to which this can be used to embody human rights claims under globalisation.  

PhD thesis

‘Revisiting public health emergency in international law: a precautionary approach’ [Supervisors: Prof Graeme Laurie and Dr Abbe Brown; Examiners: Mr Antony Taubman and Dr Elisa Morgera]

This work analysed the role of precaution at the interface between intellectual property and the “right to health” in WTO law. I adapted the concept of State’s precautionary rights and responsibilities and proposed a precautionary approach as a policy tool for risk management with a view to redressing the “access to medicines” dilemma in the WTO IP regime.

Intellectual Property Law

Company Law 

Legal Regulation of International Trade

International Trade: Issues & Challenges

Law of Business Organisations

Introduction to Business Law 

Student Consultation

Please email to make an appointment. 

Li, Phoebe (2013) Health technologies and international intellectual property law: a precautionary approach. Routledge research in intellectual property . Routledge, Oxford. ISBN 9780415823616

Li, Phoebe (2013) Rights and responsibilities in patents: a precautionary patent framework in WTO law. European Intellectual Property Review , 9. ISSN 0142-0461 (In Press)

Li, Phoebe and Lim, Pheh Hoon (2013) A precautionary approach to compulsory licensing and tempering the data exclusivity obstacle for access to medicines. In: British and Irish Legal Education and Technology Association 2013 Annual Conference, University of Liverpool .

Li, Phoebe (2012) Intellectual property and 3D printing - A case study on 3D chocolate printing. In: Bridging the Gaps: The Exeter Science Exchange Workshop - 3D-Printing Workshop: Legal Challenges, 5 Oct 2012, Exeter University. (Submitted)

Li, Phoebe (2012) Ethical differentiation of fields of technology in IP. In: British and Irish Legal Education and Technology Association Conference, 29-30 March 2012, Northumbria University .

Brown , Abbe and Li, Phoebe Hung (2012) New conversations: the BILETA and Information Technology Think Tank collaborative consultation response programme. European Journal of Technology and Law , 3 (1). ISSN 2042-115X

Li, Phoebe (2011) Can ageing patients be deemed as unlike-consumers in free trade? In: European Association of Health Law , 6-7 October 2011, Leuven, BELGIUM.

Li, Phoebe, Brown, A and Rauhofer, J (2011) Responses to consultations - the BILETA contribution. In: British and Irish Legal Education and Technology Association Conference, 11-12 April 2011, Manchester Metropolitan University .

Hung, Phoebe Chienwen (2010) The precautionary approach under the right to health dilemma. International Review of Law, Computers and Technology, 24 (1). pp. 71-80. ISSN 1360-0869

Li, Phoebe (2008) The mechanism of national emergency in TRIPS - the compulsory licensing of Tamiflu in Taiwan. Taiwan International Law Quarterly . pp. 159-207.

Li, Phoebe (2006) The validity and necessity of compulsory licensing of Tamiflu - Taiwan Experience. In: 16th World Congress on Medical Law , August 7th-11th, Toulouse.

Li, Phoebe IP, precaution and public health. In: European Association of Health Law Conference, 15-16 October 2009, Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh.