Stamatia Amy Joanna Piper

Faculty of Law

Biography

Tina Piper is an Assistant Professor of Law and a member of the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy.

Before joining McGill University, Professor Piper clerked for the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. She completed graduate work at the University of Oxford as a Canadian Rhodes Scholar.

Previously, Professor Piper graduated from the University of Toronto’s Engineering Science program as a National Scholar with a specialization in Electrical/Biomedical Engineering. She then graduated as the gold medallist at Dalhousie Law School in 2001.

Professor Piper researches why people create and innovate in science and the arts and the role laws and norms play in this process. Her current work explores the norms governing medical scientific innovation in the early twentieth century in Canada. She is also conducting a study of independent music labels in Montreal and their role as 'brokers on the boundary' in negotiating IP rights.

Professor Piper has taught Intellectual Property Law, Property Law and Canadian Legal History and an inter-disciplinary course on new models for music creation and distribution.

Education

D.Phil. (Law), University of Oxford, UK, 2008

M.Phil. (Law), University of Oxford, UK, 2005

B.C.L. (European and Comparative Law), University of Oxford, UK, 2002

L.L.B. Dalhousie University Law School, 2001

B.A.Sc. (Engineering), University of Toronto, 1998

Employment

2005-2006 Action Canada Fellow

2002-2008 Research Associate, Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre

2004-2005 Clerk to the Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Canada

Areas of Interest

Patent and copyright law, legal history, property law and theory, law and development, technology and knowledge transfer, history of medicine, science, law and public policy.