Dusollier, Séverine

Severine Dusollier is Professor of Intellectual Property in the Law School of Sciences Po Paris and holds a Senior Chair at the Institut Universitaire de France. She is the director of the law school research centre, member of its doctoral committee and the Head of the Master in Innovation Law. She is a Qualified Member of the CSPLA (French Copyright Council), a founding member of the European Copyright Society and a member of ATRIP (Association for Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property). From 2014-2019, she was the holder of an ERC (European Research Council) research grant on commons and inclusivity in property. Her current research interests are digital issues of copyright, the concept of authorship, contractual protection of authors and performers, exceptions and limitations, commons and property, public domain. 

From 2006-2014, she was Professor at the University of Namur (Belgium) and the Director of the CRIDS (Research Centre in Information, Law and Society). Recognised as an academic expert in copyright, she has carried out research for international and EU institutions. She has been a Research Fellow at Berkeley University (2001), at the European University Institute of Florence (2005-2006), Visiting fellow at the University of Columbia (2011), NYU (2017) and Cambridge University (2024). 

Fields of Expertise : 

• Copyright
• Intellectual Property
• Digital technologies
• Commons and property

Publications: Severine Dusollier's publications

Contact: severine.dusollier@sciencespo.fr