Dr Andrea Wallace

Andrea is an Associate Professor in Law and Technology (Education & Research) teaching Art and Law, Intellectual Property Law, Internet Law, Legal Foundations, Torts, and the Cultural Heritage Digitsation Lab. Her research focuses on intersections of art and cultural heritage law with the digital realm and digital heritage management. She is a co-director of the GLAM-E Lab (Law School and Digital Humanities) established in partnership with the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy (NYU Law School). She is also Deputy Director of The Centre for Science, Culture and the Law at Exeter (SCuLE).

Andrea joined the University of Exeter Law School in 2017. She has a PhD in Cultural Heritage Law from CREATe at the University of Glasgow in partnership with the National Library of Scotland. Her PhD research established a theoretical framework for "surrogate intellectual property (IP) rights" in the cultural sector and examined their impact the public's ability to access and reuse works in the public domain.

Andrea previously received an LLM in European Business Law from Radboud University in the Netherlands, a JD from DePaul University College of Law in Chicago, and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is also a registered attorney with the Illinois State Bar.

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Andrea welcomes PhD proposals to research in the areas of art and cultural heritage law, open access, intellectual property and the public domain, and digital technologies in use across the cultural sector.