Research Fellow

Dr. Marcella Favale has been a qualified lawyer since 2007 in Italy and since 2011 in France, but she is not currently practicing law as she has chosen an academic career.

She was awarded a PhD in Law from the University of Nottingham in 2007, while working on an EU-funded research project in Law and biotechnologies. Immediately after, she was appointed as a Research Fellow at the University of Sheffield (2007-2008).

Subsequently, she worked on several research projects in the field of Intellectual Property law with the University of Nottingham (2008-2009), Bournemouth University (2012-2025), and the University of Glasgow (2014-2016). At Bournemouth University, She has been also a Part-time Hourly Paid Lecturer for the Post Graduate Certificate in Intellectual Property, LLM, and the WIPO Summer School.

She is also a PTHP Teacher at the prestigious university of SciencesPo Paris, at the school of Law and at the School of Management and Impact (Media and Communication).

Her research interests focus on Intellectual Property and New Technologies, specifically:

• Copyright jurisprudence of the CJEU;
• Copyright limits and DRM – automated enforcement;

Her work is largely interdisciplinary and empirical, combining Law with IT and Social Science. For example, the empirical work on the CJEU, aimed at identifying the most influential country on the EU Court, is still largely cited in the Industry, as it is a rare example of converting legal documents into data.

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