“WR Cornish, who has died at the age of 84, has been described as the father of intellectual property teaching and scholarship in the United Kingdom. Born in Adelaide, South Australia, Bill Cornish first came to Britain in 1955 on a gap year, before commencing his law degree at the University of Adelaide. Keen to return to Europe on graduation, he obtained a scholarship to study for the BCL in Oxford, and was then appointed as an assistant lecturer at the London School of Economics. Arriving at the LSE in 1962, Bill found it to be a very congenial place for the kind of teaching and research he wanted to do …” (more)
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Michael Lobban, ‘William Rodolph Cornish (1937-2022)’, Modern Law Review, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2230.12731. First published 21 February.
First posted 2022-02-22 18:00:50
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