School of Law University of Edinburgh Old College South Bridge Edinburgh EH8 9YL UK
Biographical Details
Smita joined the School of Law as a Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law in September 2008. She is also an associate of SCRIPT: the AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law.
Smita completed her LLB (Hons) from University of Buckingham, LLM from the University of Cambridge and also gained legal experience as a practising advocate, in Corporate and commercial law, in the High Court at Calcutta. She undertook her PhD at Queen's University Belfast, where for her doctoral research she took a socio-legal approach to examine authors' rights under copyright legislation and conducted a qualitative study exploring the perspective of digital artists as to the concept of authorship and their use of present copyright legislation.
Her research interests include applicability of empirical research, particularly socio-legal methodologies in addressing questions on copyright law and policy as to new types of creative content and exploring connections between Intellectual property law and new forms of property and culture through perspectives of creators and users.
Smita is Supervising editor (Intellectual Property) for SCRIPT-ed: A journal of Law, Technology & Society, further details of which are available here.
She is also the Programme Director of the LLM in Innovation Technology and Law & LLM in Intellectual Property Law, details of which are available here.
Smita Kheria 'Moral Rights and New Technologies' presented at The Indian Society of International Law, New Delhi, 2010
Smita Kheria 'Creativity and Copyright in the Digital Environment: the ‘schizophrenic’ position of the individual artist' presented at Law and Society Association International Meeting, Chicago, 2010
Smita Kheria 'Role of Artistic Motivation for Copyright Policy' presented at Socio-legal Studies Association Annual Conference, Leicester, De Montfort Law School, 2009
Smita Kheria 'Copyright Law in the Digital Environment: Findings from a Study with Digital Artists' presented at Law and Society Association International Meeting, Denver, 2009
Smita Kheria 'Participant on the Visual arts and Film panel' presented at Symposium on Copyright, Contracts and Creativity, Bournemouth University, 2009
Smita Kheria 'Methodological Issues in conducting Interviews with Artists' presented at Law and Society Association International Meeting, Montreal, 2008
Smita Kheria 'Artists and Empirical Research in Copyright Law' presented at Quest, QUB AHSS post graduate conference, Belfast, 2008
Smita Kheria 'Consultation with Artists and Copyright law: A UK perspective' presented at Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference, University of Manchester, 2008
Smita Kheria '‘Authorship’ missing in the debate on moral rights in the digital age' presented at Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference, University of Kent, 2007
Smita Kheria 'Moral rights in the Digital Environment: “Authors” absence from Authors’ rights debate' presented at BILETA annual conference, Hertfordshire, 2007
Smita Kheria 'Authorship and the debate on Moral rights in the digital environment' presented at Law and Society Association International Meeting, Berlin, 2007
