Jenny Kanellopoulou

Dr Jenny Kanellopoulou Advocate (Athens Bar), PGDip in HE, FIPM

Reader in Socio-Legal Studies

My profile

Biography

I joined MMU in September 2019 as a Senior Lecturer in Law.

I hold a PhD in the area of Intellectual Property and Competition Policy from the University of Edinburgh (2018), where I was also employed as a tutor and research assistant in IP and Business Law. I also studied IP and Competition Law at the University of Glasgow, where I completed my LLM. 

My research focuses on the relationship between culture, law, place, and space.

I have published a monograph on the relationship between Intellectual Property Law and Competition Policy for new business models in the creative industries with Routledge NY. I am currently preparing my second monograph on Metal Music and the Law for the same publisher. 

I have led a British Academy funded project on urban squats, and have published articles and reports on the topic, investigating alternative forms of urban participation from legal, geographical, cultural, and urban policy perspectives.  

Prior to becoming an academic, I qualified as a lawyer with the Athens Bar, and worked in the public sector, including holding posts with the Industrial Property Organization and the Ministry of Interior in Greece. 

During my student years, I worked as a Marketing and Press Officer for a major concert promoter in Greece (working directly with artists such as Linkin Park, Black Sabbath, Guns n Roses), and as a part-time music journalist. 

My proudest achievements to date are interviewing Ozzy Osbourne in person and graduating as a Doctor of Laws.

Academic and professional qualifications

PhD (Edin), LLM (Glasgow), LLB (Hons), PGCAP, FHEA, Lawyer (Athens Bar, non practicing)

Languages

Greek, French, Spanish

External examiner roles

External examiner for several LLB units for the University of the West of England (appointed 2021) 

Expert Reviewer, Conference Committee and Advisory Board Membership

Since 2023- Member of the Editorial Advisory Board for the Journal of Place Management and Development

Since 2023 – Member of the Advisory Academic Committee of the 8th International XR-Metaverse Conference

Since 2023- Expert Reviewer for Routledge NY on the topic of the cultural industries

Since 2018 - Reviewer of the Journal of Place Management and Development

2017- 2018 - Member of the academic committee of the Institute of Place Management’s Annual Corfu Symposium of Marketing and Managing Places

Get in touch

0161 247 2768
[email protected]
6.31 Sandra Burslem Building
Term 1: Thursdays 10-12, Term 2: Tuesdays 1-3

Projects

Slovenian Ministry of Tourism, Sport, and the Economy  (2024)

Project: Examining the Impact of Short-term Rentals of Residential Properties on Housing Accessibility: A Review of European Policies with Implications for Slovenia (P-I)

British Academy (SRG1819\190400)

Grant: BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants SRG 2018-19 (Funding Awarded: £9,310)

Project: Making and managing Ljubljana’s urban squats: inclusive and participatory practices (P-Investigator)

Grant:

Society of Legal Scholars award to set up the first PhD Conference to run in parallel with the main SLS conference at the University of Edinburgh (Funding awarded: £3,000)

Internal Grants and Awards

2023/ Seed corn funding (Funding awarded £1742,16)

Project “XR Law and Compliance in the age of the Metaverse” (P-Investigator)

2022/ Grant: MMU International Collaborative Fund (Funding awarded: £4,035)

Project: Management for Culture: Beyond Tangible-Intangible Heritage (Co-Investigator)

2016/ Grant: Salford Business School Internal Fund (Funding awarded: £3,000)

Project: Empirical research in the urban squats of Christiania and Metelkova (P-Investigator)

2013/ Grant: University of Edinburgh School of Law, Doctoral Research Groups Fund (Funding awarded: £2,000)

For the creation of the first IP/IT/Media Law Discussion Group at the University of Edinburgh

Teaching

Why do I teach?

Knowledge is too valuable not to share.

How I’ll teach you

I will teach you socio-legally.

My teaching (as well as my research) remains socio-legal at its core: together we will explore how, where, and why the law happens.

Subject areas

Intellectual Property

Spatial and Cultural Legal Studies 

Postgraduate teaching

Legal and Rights for the MA in Publishing 

Law for the Creative Industries

Intellectual Property in a Global Context 

Supervision

Mr Harry Houlden - The protection of fictional characters.

Ms Alexandra Taylor - Socio-legal implications of eSports. 

PhD queries: I am open to discuss PhD ideas pertaining to spatial and cultural legal studies broadly defined, including, but not limited to the imprint of the law in the urban environment, alternative and popular forms of cultural expression, urban squats, legal geographies of the creative participation, theories of legal geography, the law in place(s). 

Research outputs

Career history

2014-2019

Lecturer in Law - University of Salford

2012-2014

Tutor and research assistant - University of Edinburgh

Press and media

Kanellopoulou, J (2023) Leeds Festival of Ideas: Have you ever considered the concept of place?

Kanellopoulou, J (2015) The Conversation, Google and Android in the firing line as EU pulls trigger on competition inquiry

Kanellopoulou, J (2014) The Conversation, EU competition watchdogs would be wise to watch out for Apple’s growth

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