In addition to the members of the original research group, many leading copyright scholars have also declared their support for the Declaration. These include:
First Name, Name
Function and Affiliation
Date of signature
Zuzana Adamova
JUDr., PhD., Intellectual Property Law Institute, Trnava University
00/00/09
EmanuelaArezzo
Dr., Luiss Guido Carli University, Italy
08/10/09
Ida Madieha Azmi
Professor, International Islamic University of Malaysia
22/07/08
Shoshana Berman
Judge (ret.), Lecturer Hebrew University Rehovot, Israel
22/07/08
Maja Bogataj Jancic
Dr., Head of Intellectual Property Institute, Slovenia
12/09/08
Hayri Bozgeyik
Dr., Assistant Professor, Krikkale University, Law Faculty, Turkey
25/09/08
Delia Brown
National Copyright Director, Ministerial Council on Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs, Australia
18/08/08
Niklas Bruun
Professor, IPR University Center, Helsinki
22/07/08
Beatriz Bugallo
Profesora, Investigadora, Universidad de Montevideo, Uruguay
22/07/08
Oleksandr Bulayenko
LLM., University of Lund, Dept. of International Human Rights Law and Intellectual Property Law; Raoul Wallenberg Institute
03/04/11
Margaret Chon
Donald & Lynda Horowitz Professor for the Pursuit of Justice, Seattle University School of Law
28/07/08
William Cornish
Emeritus Professor of Intellectual Property Law, University of Cambridge
10/07/08
John Cross
Professsor, University of Louisville
22/07/08
François Curchod
Adjunct Professor, Robert Schuman University of Strasbourg, CEIPI
23/07/08
Joao de Almeida e Paiva
Almeida e Paiva & Associados, Portugal
07/05/11
Antonella De Robbio
Information Specialist (Referent for Copyright and Open Access), University of Padua
13/07/09
Estelle Derclaye
Dr., Lecturer in law, University of Nottingham
16/12/08
Graeme B. Dinwoodie
Professor of Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law
22/07/08
Jivko Draganov
Associate Professor, Law Faculty, UNWE, Sofia/Bulgarien
01/12/10
Josef Drexl
Professor, Direktor am Max-Planck-Institut für Geistiges Eigentum, München
22/07/08
Graham Dutfield
Prof. Dr., University of Leeds
31/03/10
Mireille Eechoud, van
Dr., Associate Professor, Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam
24/10/08
Orit Fischman Afori
Associate Professor, College of Management Academic Studies, Law School, Israel
11/08/08
Norbert Flechsig
Professor, Universität Tübingen
26/05/09
Ysolde Gendreau
Professor, University of Montreal, Canada
23/07/08
Luis Mariano Genovesi
Profesor, Facultad de Derecho, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentinien
22/07/08
Llewellyn Joseph Gibbons
Associate Professor, University of Toledo College of Law
07/11/08
Christine Godt
Professorin, Universität Bremen
23/07/08
Volker Grassmuck
Dr., University of Sao Paulo
14/12/09
Willem Grosheide
Professor, Center for Intellectual Property Law, Utrecht University
22/07/08
Lucie Guibault
Assistant Professor, Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam
21/10/08
José Antonio Gómez Segade
Professor, Chair of Commercial Law, Law School, University of Santiago de Compostela
22/07/08
Michael Handler
Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales
08/08/13
Thomas Hoeren
Professor, Universität Münster/Director ITM
12/08/08
Jeanette Hofmann
Dr., Researcher, London School of Economics
18/09/08
Howard Johnson
Deputy Head of Bangor Law School, Intellectual Property teacher
04/11/08
Stellina Jolly
Lecturer; Panjab University
01/01/09
John Kiggundu
Professor of Law, University of Botswana
22/07/08
Yasuto Komada
Associate Professor, Sophia University, Faculty of Law, Japan
15/02/09
Olga A. Krauss Torres
Profesora de Derecho, Universidad de Colima, México
22/07/08
Martin Kretschmer
Professor, Director of Centre for Intellectual Property Policy & Management (CIPPM)
16/09/08
Till Kreutzer
Dr., Rechtsanwalt, Büro für informationsrechtliche Expertise Hamburg
22/06/09
Rainer Kuhlen
Professor, Lehrstuhlinhaber, Universität Konstanz
13/05/09
Matthias Lamping
Dr., Max-Planck-Institut für Immaterialgüter- und Wettbewerbsrecht, München
09/01/11
Hervé LeCrosnier
Internet Technolgoies Professor, Université de Caen
25/07/08
Matthias Leistner
Professor, Chair of Civil Law, Intellectual Property and Competition Law, Director of the Institute for Commercial Law, University of Bonn
24/07/08
Christian LeStanc
Professor of Law, University of Montpellier and Strasbourg, CEIPI
22/07/08
Bruno Lewicki
Dr., Lecturer, State University of Rio de Janeiro
26/08/08
Xiuqlin Lin
Professor of Law, IP Institute, Xiamen University
25/08/09
Kung-Chung Liu
Professor, Research Fellow, Institutum Iurisprudentiae, Academia Sinica, Taipeh
22/07/08
Michael Madison
Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh
03/12/08
Ryszard Markiewicz
Professor Jagiellonian University, Director of the Intellectual Property Law Institute
02/08/09
Roberto Mastroianni
Professor, University of Naples Federico II
23/10/09
Duncan Matthews
Dr., Reader in Intellectual Property Law, Queen Mary, University of London
22/07/08
Charles McManis
Professor of Law, Washington University, School of Law, St. Louis, USA
22/07/08
Bryan Mercurio
Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Law
15/05/09
Axel Metzger
Professor Leibniz Universität Hannover, Direktor des Instituts für Rechtsinformatik
03/06/09
Céline Meyrueis-Pebeyre
Associate Professor, University of Strasbourg, CEIPI
22/07/08
Alberto Musso
Full Professor of IP and Competition Law - Deputy Dean, University of Bologna, School of Law
22/07/08
Wee Loon Ng-Loy
Associate Professor, National University of Singapore
22/07/08
Georg Nolte
Dr., Taylor Wessing
06/11/09
Enyinna Nwauche
Associate Professor of Law, Director Centre for African Legal Studies, Nigeria
09/09/08
Carmen Otero García-Castrillón
Profesora Titular de Derecho internacional privado, Facultad de Derecho, Universidad Complutense
30/07/08
Adejoke Oyewunmi
Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Lagos
07/08/08
Ana María Pacón
Professor, Master of Intellectual Property, Catholic University of Peru
23/07/08
Tim Padfield
Chair, Libraries and Archives Copyright Alliance (UK)
15/06/09
Pablo Palazzi
Director, LLM Commercial Law Program, Universidad de San Andres, Argentinien
27/09/09
Thomas Pflüger
Dr., Ministerialrat, Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst, Baden-Württemberg
25/07/08
Florian Philapitsch
Dr., Stv. Behördenleiter, Kommunikationsbehörde Austria
13/08/08
Yves Reboul
Professor, University of Strasbourg, Director General, CEIPI
22/07/08
Manfred Rehbinder
Professor (em.) Universität Zürich, Vorstand Institut für Urheber- und Medienrecht, München
02/06/09
Giorgio Resta
Professor, University of Bari
24/09/08
Cyrill Rigamonti
Professor, Universität Bern
22/07/08
Antonella Robbio, De
Referent for the Copyright for Library System, University of Padua
07/06/09
Allan Rocha de Souza
Professor, Rio de Janeiro State University
13/09/08
Abdul Rahman Sheikh
Dr., UAE University, United Arab Emirates
22/07/08
Hartmut Simon
Dr., Akadem. Direktor, früher Universität Siegen
21/10/08
HuiXian Song
Vice-Director of Editorial Department, China Copyright
16/07/08
Cahit Suluk
Dr., Lecturer, Istanbul Bilgi University
23/07/08
Florent Thouvenin
Dr., Rechtsanwalt, Universität Zürich
29/12/09
Cláudia Trabuco
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
22/07/08
Benedetta Ubertazzi
Dr., Lecturer, University of Milan ( IULM)
23/07/08
Hanns Ullrich
Professor (em.) Universität der Bundeswehr, Neubiberg, Max-Planck-Institut für Geistiges Eigentum, München
22/07/08
V.K. Unni
Assistant Professor, Teaching/Research, NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad
26/08/08
Simonetta Vezzoso
Dr., Researcher and Teacher, University of Trento
20/10/08
Charlotte Waelde
Professor, University of Edinburgh
08/08/08
Kimberlee Weatherall
Associate Professor University of Sydney, B.A. LL.B. (Hons) Sydney, B.C.L. Oxf, LL.M. Yale
05/08/13
Fabian Wigger
SUISA
15/12/09
Hong Xue
Dr., University of Hong Kong
22/07/08
Further important supporters are:
First Name, Name
Function and Affiliation
Date of signature
Philipp Ahlers
Student, Universität Bayreuth
22/01/09
Seyavash Amini
Dipl.-Jur., Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Universität Wien
22/07/08
Renata Avila
LL.M., Project Lead, Creative Commons Guatemala
09/01/09
Bodó Balázs
Assistant Lecturer, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
25/07/08
Maciej Barczewski
Dr., Advocat, University of Gdansk
23/07/08
Edson Beas Rodrigues Jr.
Research Fellow, Instituto de Direito do Comércio Internacional e Desenvolvimento
16/07/08
Fabricio Bertini Pasquot Polido
University of Sao Paulo/International Trade Law and Development Institute
15/01/10
Raffaella Bisceglia
Chair Assistant (IP las chair), University of Parma
22/07/08
Daniel Boos
Digitale Allmend, Schweiz
04/02/10
Delia Brasfalean
LL.M. Eur., Stipendiatin Max-Planck-Institut für Geistiges Eigentum, München
22/07/08
Friederieke Busch
Stipendiatin, Max-Planck-Institut für Geistiges Eigentum, München
22/07/08
Timo Ehmann
Doktorand, Max-Planck-Institut für Geistiges Eigentum, München
22/07/08
Gabriel F. Leonardos
LL.M., Attorney-at-Law, Senior Partner of Momsen, Leonardos & Cia., Rio de Janeiro, Brasilien
28/07/08
Alfred Frueh
lic. iur., Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Doktorand, Max-Planck-Institut für Geistiges Eigentum, München
22/07/08
Josef Gadermayr
Mag. iur., LL.M. in IP, Rechtsanwalt, Gugerbauer & Partner Rechtsanwälte KEG, Wien
22/07/08
Teresa Grzeszak
Dr., Warsaw University
13/03/10
Sabine Hüttner
Stipendiatin, Max-Planck-Institut für Geistiges Eigentum, München
18/07/08
Maria Iglesias
Dr., Head of the IPR unit, CRID-FUNDP
22/07/08
Tomoki Ishiara
Visiting Scholar, attorney at law, UC Berkeley Law School
00/00/09
Jener Kath Jardim
Student and Lawyer, PUC-Rio
29/05/09
Omar Kaminski
Director for Internet, IBDI
00/00/09
Evangelia Kokotsaki
Doktorandin, Rechtsanwältin, Universität Athen
00/00/09
Robert Kordic
Doktorand, Max-Planck-Institut für Geistiges Eigentum, München
23/07/08
Sebastian Krujatz
Doktorand an der Universität Bayreuth, Stipendiat am Max-Planck-Institut für Geistiges Eigentum, München
19/08/08
Gabriel F. Leonardos
Attorney-at-law, Momsen, Leonardos & Cia., Rio de Janeiro, Brasilien
28/07/08
Federico Mastrolilli
Dr., LL.M. in Copyright Law, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
28/10/08
Rita Matulionyte
Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg
12/10/09
Esther Ngom
Student Master on IP, University of Yaounde, Cameroon
18/07/08
Guido Noto La Diega
Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italien
02/01/14
Maria Oliete Ballester
LL.M., Doktorandin, Max-Planck-Institut für Geistiges Eigentum, Lehrbeauftragte an der LMU, München
23/07/08
Carmelo.Simone Parisi
Student, Luiss Guido Carli, Rom
18/11/08
Martin Pflüger
Rechtsanwalt, Doktorand und Stipendiat am Max-Planck-Institut für Geistiges Eigentum, München
09/07/08
Pedro Pina
ESTGOH/PC
14/10/09
Wole Popoola
Student, Research
15/08/08
Sébastien Proust
Herbert Smith LLP
29/03/10
Marcio Ribeiro
Student, Lisbon University
10/02/10
Raquel Rodríguez Zaragoza
Senior IP Attorney at Garrigues, Spain
10/05/13
Claudia Schmidt
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Philipps-Universität, Marburg
23/07/08
Albrecht Schmidt-Bischoffshausen
Doktorand, Max-Planck-Institut für Geistiges Eigentum, München
15/07/08
Giorgio Spedicato
PhD, University of Bologna
22/07/08
Martin Stierle
Student, Universität Bayreuth
28/07/08
Emese Szilagyi
Doktorandin und Stipendiatin, Max-Planck-Institut für Geistiges Eigentum, München
23/07/08
Claudia Tapia
Dipl.-Jur.,Doktorandin, Max-Planck-Institut für Geistiges Eigentum, München
23/07/08
Yong Wan
Dr., Law School, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
14/04/10
Andrea Wechsler
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Max-Planck-Institut für Geistiges Eigentum, München
17/07/08
Fabíola Wüst Zibetti
PhD Candidate; University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
14/01/09
Sa Yu
Researcher in Law & Technology Program, LL.D. Candidate, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, Canada
21/07/08
Lukasz Zelechowski
PhD candidate, Warsaw University
19/11/08