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Thorsten Lauterbach
BA (Hons) European Business Law (Abertay)
LL.M. (Aberdeen).
Tel: +44 (0)1224 263410
Email: t.lauterbach@rgu.ac.uk
After graduating with a BA (Hons) European Business Law (Abertay Dundee) and an LL.M. by research (Aberdeen) I worked as Lecturer in Law at The University of the West of Scotland (then Paisley) for five years.
I joined the Department of Law at Aberdeen Business School as a Lecturer in September 2004. In addition, I have been reading for a Ph.D. at the University of Edinburgh since September 2006.
Teaching responsibilities
My teaching commitments are spread over a number of courses. I currently deliver Contract Law, Consumer Law, Media Law and Intellectual Property Law on the LL.B. (Honours) and BA (Honours) Law and Management courses. Supervision of undergraduate dissertations is also part of my responsibilities.
Having benefited from EU exchange opportunities as a student, I am keenly interested in participating in the teaching exchanges which the Business School has with current partner institutions.
Additionally, I am Course Leader for the linked programmes noted below. On these, I supervise Masters dissertations and teach Intellectual Property Law related content:
Other Responsibilities
Since Summer 2008 I have fulfilled the role of ABS Learning Enhancement Co-ordinator (Postgraduate). This has enabled me to contribute to teaching, learning and assessment developments through participating at conferences (HEA, UKCLE) across the UK, as well as a number of key university (RGU) and ABS Committees, programme validation and review events. This role requires liaison and collaboration with colleagues both within the Business School and with university's Department of Enhancement of Learning, Teaching and Assessment (DELTA).
Research interests
While I undertake regular scholarly activities in all the fields that form part of my teaching responsibility in order to maintain a level of currency within those disciplines, my main research interests concern EU Constitutional Law and Intellectual Property Law.
Within the former, further EU integration by means of treaties and the effective enforcement of judgments handed down by the Court of Justice of the EU are areas I find particularly exciting. Within IP law, the notion of (joint) authorship in copyright law has had an even more gripping effect on my research preferences, culminating in the decision to embark on a Ph.D. – an often lonely and arduous journey, but one that is nonetheless thoroughly enjoyable!
In addition, I am keen on contributing regularly to IP/Copyright Law-related blogs e.g. The IPKat, as well as acting as reviewer/editor for specific journals. While I have had a function editing submissions to the Journal of International Trade Law & Policy since 2008, I have recently been invited to join the editing team of SCRIPTed (an online journal of Law, Technology & Society).
Finally, the role as ABS LEC sparked a growing interest in research into the provision of legal education in the UK. Here, the experience of international postgraduate students in respect of teaching, learning and assessment raise issues of particular concern.
Memberships
Society of Computers and Law
Higher Education Academy
Society of Legal Scholars
Publications
Refereed articles
Lyons, C. and Lauterbach, T. "Article 228 EC – an effective provision to enforce ECJ judgments?". (forthcoming).
Lauterbach, T. "Gary Moore has got the blues – proving copyright infringement over time" Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice. (forthcoming).
Lauterbach, T. (2009) "Clouseau would have been confounded: Ninth Circuit throws out 'The Pink Panther' joint authorship claim" (2009) Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, Vol. 4(6), pp. 402-403.
Lauterbach, T. "Joint authorship in a copyright work revisited" (2005) European Intellectual Property Review, Vol. 27(3), pp. 119-121.
Lauterbach, T. "A celebrity fight-back ‘par excellence’"" (2005) Computer Law & Security Report, Vol. 21(1), pp. 74-77.
Lauterbach, T. "Sweets, a TV channel and the 'principle of comfort' - recent Community trade mark applications" (2005) Business Law Review, Vol. 26(3), pp. 59-61.
Regular contributions (short articles and case notes, mainly on Intellectual Property law issues) to the Scottish Law Gazette since 2001.
Non-refereed articles
(Case Comment) "Not quite turning cartwheels, but a place in rck 'n' roll history beckons!". Scottish Law Gazette (2007) Vol. 75 (3) pp. 50-52.
(Case Comment) "Attheraces v British Horseracing Board". Scottish Law Gazette (2006) Vol 74 (1)
(Case Comment) "Patent Convention comes up "trumps" - for now!". Scottish Law Gazette, (2005) Vol 73(1), pp. 32-33.
"The Net is closing in on P2P file-sharing services". In Scottish Law Gazette, (2005) Vol 73(6), pp. 190-192.
(Case Comment) "A turnaround of a 'gigantic scale': the US Supreme Court's ruling in MGM v Grokster and StreamCast". Scottish Law Gazette, (2005) Vol 73(4), pp. 130-133.
(Case Comment) "Let not people in glazing systems cast the first stone". Scottish Law Gazette, (2005) Vol 73(3), pp. 101-103.
(Case Comment) "Sweets, a TV channel and the 'principle of comfort' - recent Community Trade Mark applications". Business Law Review, (2005) Vol 26(3), pp. 59-61.
(Case Comment) "Odds staked against database owners?" Scottish Law Gazette, (2004) Vol 72(6).
(Case Comment) "Personal liability of honorary office bearers in sports clubs". Scottish Law Gazette, (2004) Vol 72(3), pp. 90-92.
"The Patents Act 2004: the United Kingdom gets on a par with Europe". Scottish Law Gazette, (2004) Vol 72(5), pp. 143-146.
(Case Comment) "Trademarked pharmaceuticals - a headache for right owners and parallel importers". Scottish Law Gazette, (2004) Vol 72(2), pp. 50-52.
(Case Comment) "'Absolutely not' a parody?". Scottish Law Gazette, (2003) Vol 71(6), pp. 108-111.
"Intellectual property - the Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003". Scottish Law Gazette, (2003) Vol 71(6), pp. 184-188.
Conference papers
Lauterbach, T. (2009) "Of pleasure and pain: Teaching IP to a multinational postgraduate cohort". Paper presented at the third Annual Workshop by the European Intellectual Property Teachers’ Network (EIPTN), Queen Mary University of London, July 2009.
Lauterbach, T. (2008) "The collaborator in a time of copyright law convergence and globalisation – a neglected entity?" Paper presented at a Colloquium on Intellectual Property and Globalisation, University Paul Verlaine, Metz, May 2008.
Lauterbach, T. (2006), "A bite as strong as its bark: enforcement of ECJ judgments under Article 228 EC". Paper presented at SLS Conference, Stirling, April 2006.
Lauterbach, T. (2005), "US-style 'personality' right in the UK - en route from Strasbourg?" Paper presented at BILETA Conference, Belfast, April 2005.
Lauterbach, T. (2004). "The IPR Enforcement Directive". Paper presented at Scottish Universities Law Faculties Conference 2004. Pitlochry, Scotland, May 2004.
