Frantzeska Papadopoulou Skarp
Contact
Name and title: Frantzeska Papadopoulou Skarp
Phone: +4686747256
Workplace: Department of Law Länk till annan webbplats.
Visiting address Room C 988Universitetsvägen 10 C
Postal address Juridiska institutionen106 91 Stockholm
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About me
My education
I have a Maîtrise de droit privé and a Maîtrise de droit des Affaires from the University of Droit et Santé Lille II in Lille, France. I continued my studies in Sweden where I took a masters degree in Law and IT (2000), a masters degree in European Intellectual Property Law (2001) from Stockholm University as well as a masters degree in EU and American Law from Uppsala University (2001).
I defended my doctorate thesis in 2014 at the Law Faculty of Stockholm University. My thesis has the title "Opening Pandora's Box" and it concerns the protection of traditional knowledge and genetic resources under the framework of the international intellectual property rights regime.
Other positions
Since 1st of January 2018 I am the equality representative in the Law Faculty. It is a very exciting project, and also a challenge working in order to develop a working and studying environment where everyone is given equal possibilities and feels equally welcome!
I am one of the co-founders of the Stockholm Intellectual Property Law Review and the chair of its Board of Directors.
Since the 1st of January 2018 I am one of the bloggers at www.ipkitten.blogspot.com, the most higly ranked Intellectual Property Law blogg on an international level.
I am the programme director of the masters programme in European Intellectual Property Rights together with my colleague Prof. Eleonora Rosati. I am also course director of the mandatory undergraduate course Civil Law B, together with my colleague Per Jonas Nordell.
I am further teaching commitments, teaching for instance in Civil Law V, Advanced Intellectual Property Rights and in the course Swedish Law in context.
Supervision of doctoral students
I am currently the supervisor of Daniel Astone. Daniel started his doctorate studies in September 2019 and the subject of research is: how intellectual property theory responds to the necessity of promoting innovation in absence of market signals, such as in the case of neglected tropical diseases.
I am currently involved in two research projects
- Pharmaceuticals and modern evergreening
The project presents and analyses modern strategical choices for pharmaceutical companies to prolong and extend their de facto and de jure protection on the market. The project focuses on Supllementary Protection Certificates as well as on Regulatory Rights (such as the Paediatric Extension, the Orphan Drugs Designation), presenting the weaknesses in the legal framework that make their application a very complicated matter. It also shows how the pharmaceutical industry has made use of the system in order to expand its protection and in what regards this has an impact on public health issues.
2. Women in Swedish Film: gender, film and representation
This is a interdisciplinary project financed by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond. I am working on this project with my colleagues (Maria Jansson, political sciences, Ingrid Stigsdotter and Louise Wallenberg, Film and Fashion Studies). The project looks into the issue of women representation in Swedish film, the role women have played in film history, their role and participation in film productions, the way they have claimed and managed their intellectual property rights and the way they have in fact influenced the content and style of Swedish films.
Focussing on significant moments in film history, the project aims to investigate the gendered character of the system of representation in Swedish film, while asking 'How does the presence of women filmmakers impact the representation of women on the screen?'; and 'In which conditions and on what terms do women’s films gain access to the public sphere?'
The project analyzes instances where women in film culture have acted for change and identify political, social, legal, economic and cultural conditions that have circumscribed women’s work. The main contribution of the project is its multi-disciplinary approach which enables a discussion of links between women filmmakers, their working conditions, the films produced and how they enter the public sphere.
By combining the disciplines of Film, Politics and Law, the project enables the development of a theoretical framework that connects relevant debates around cultural and political representation.