Professor Alain Pottage

About

Alain Pottage is Professor of Law at the London School of Economics. He has been a visiting professor at the universities of Sydney, Harvard, Cornell, Frankfurt, and at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He is currently working on three main projects: a study of the implications of the Anthropocene hypothesis for law, a critical historical study (supported by a Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies, jointly held with Mario Biagioli) of the foundations of modern intellectual property discourse, and a historical sociology of brands and trade marks, with particular reference to the medial and material agency of contemporary brands.