Dr Justin Koo, LLB LLM PhD
Profile
Dr Justin Koo is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of the West Indies, St Augustine. Prior to joining The UWI, Justin was a Visiting Lecturer at King’s College London and a Teaching Fellow at University College London (UCL). Justin obtained his LLB from the University of Kent in 2011. He then completed his LLM in Intellectual Property Law at King's College London in 2012. Following this, he completed his PhD at King's College London in 2016. The thesis comprised the title: 'The proper scope of the communication to the public right in EU copyright law'. Subsequent to his thesis, Justin composed the book The Right of Communication to the Public in EU Copyright Law, published by Hart Publishing in May 2019, which was subsequently cited by the Court of Justice of the European Union in the Advocate General’s Opinion on Joined Cases C-682/18 and C-683/18 Frank Peterson v Google LLC and others and Elsevier Inc v Cyando AG. This book has also been cited in the sixth edition of leading intellectual property law textbook Intellectual Property Law by Bently, Sherman, Gangjee and Johnson.
Justin is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy of the UK, a member of Association Littéraire et Artistique Internationale (ALAI) and the Society for Legal Scholars (SLS), a trainer with the National Intellectual Property Training Centre (Trinidad and Tobago) and a football referee with the Trinidad and Tobago Football Referees Association (North Zone).
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Teaching Interests
- Intellectual Property Law
- Copyright Law
- Trade Mark Law
- Entertainment Law
- Sports Law
- Legal Methods
- Legal Writing
Research interests
- Copyright Law
- Trade Mark Law
- Intellectual Property
- Sports Law
- Entertainment Law
PhD Supervision Interests
- Copyright Law
- Trade Mark Law
Publications
Books
- The Right of Communication to the Public in EU Copyright Law (Hart Publishing 2019)
- ‘Trinidad and Tobago’ in H Vanhees (ed), International Encyclopaedia of Laws: Intellectual Property (Wolters Kluwer 2021)
Articles
- J Koo, ‘Forging a Copyright Jurisprudence in Trinidad and Tobago’ (2022) 25(3) Journal of World Intellectual Property 652
- J Koo, ‘Copyright and esports’ (2021) 12(4) Sports Law and Taxation 26
- J Koo, ‘Saving Trinidad and Tobago Domestic Football – An Intellectual Property Based Proposal Part Two’ (2021) 12(1) Sports Law & Taxation 29
- J Koo, ‘Saving Trinidad and Tobago Domestic Football – An Intellectual Property Based Proposal Part One’ (2020) 11(4) Sports Law & Taxation 38
- J Koo, ‘A Justificatory Pluralist Toolbox: Constructing a Modern Approach to Justifying Copyright Law’ (2020) 42(8) European Intellectual Property Review 469
- J Koo, ‘The Influence of Football on the Development of the Communication to the Public Right’ (2019) 41(9) European Intellectual Property Review 571
- J Koo, ‘The value of the right of communication to the public for the sporting industry in the Commonwealth Caribbean’ (2019) 10(2) Global Sports Law & Taxation Reports 55
- J Koo, ‘Full Blown Entertainment: A missed opportunity for advancing the copyright law of developing countries with hybrid copyright systems’ (2018) 13(10) Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice 782
- J Koo, ‘Away we Ziggo: the latest chapter in the EU communication to the public story’ (2018) 13(7) Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice 542
- J Koo, ‘Walking forward with backward facing feet: the CJEU decision in Reha Training and the development of the communication to the public right’ (2016) 11(10) Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice 732
Book Chapters
- J Koo, ‘The EU Right of Communication to the Public – Still Looking for a Good Link’ in E Rosati, Handbook of European Copyright Law (Routledge 2021)
- J Koo, ‘Enforcing the EU Communication to the Public Right in Cases of Ubiquitous Infringement’ in P Torremans, Research Handbook on Copyright (Edward Elgar Publishing 2017)
