Education CV
My research area is intellectual property law, in particular the public domain in copyright law. I use the pseudonym Wednesday Eden.
Education
- PhD Candidate in Law (Darwin College, University of Cambridge)
- Awarded the Vice-Chancellor's & Darwin College Studentship
- Future Visiting Scholar at Duke Law School (Center for the Study of the Public Domain)
- LLM Master of Law, First Class Honours (Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge)
- Awarded the One Essex Court LLM Scholarship
- Recipient of the Corpus Christi College Busse Scholarship in Law
- LLB Bachelor of Laws, First Class Honours (London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE)
- Winner of the Dechert Prize for the best performance in Property I
- Ranked no. 1 in the cohort in Intellectual Property Law (achieving the highest mark ever attained by a student in this module)
- Ranked no. 1 in the cohort in Law and Institutions of the European Union
Selected Activities at Cambridge
- Presenter in Law, Peterhouse Outreach Programme (Mar. 2025)
- Supervisor in Law, Peterhouse Bridging Scheme (Sept. 2024)
- Co-Convenor of the Oxford-Cambridge IP Research Forum (Apr. 2024 - Present)
- Editor-in-Chief, Cambridge Law Review (Sept. 2023 - Present)
- Supervisor in Intellectual Property Law (Tripos) at the following Colleges: Churchill, Clare, Lucy Cavendish, Peterhouse, and Robinson (Sept. 2023 - June 2024)
- Research Assistant, Cambridge Law Journal (Aug. 2023 - Feb. 2025)
Conference Papers and Workshops
- Intellectual Property Discussion Group, University of Oxford (2025)
- UKAEL Young Researchers Workshop, UK Association for European Law (2024)
- Annual Mosaic IP Law and Policy Roundtable Conference, Institute for Intellectual
Property & Social Justice and Marquette University Law School (2024) - International Conference on Emerging Issues in Intellectual Property Law, University
of Salzburg (2024)
Music Education
- FTCL Performance Diploma (piano), Trinity College London (pending)
- LTCL Performance Diploma (piano), Trinity College London (Distinction)
- ATCL Performance Diploma (piano), Trinity College London (Distinction)
Research centres and interest groups
Supervisors
Supervisor: Professor Lionel Bently; Adviser: Professor Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan
Representative Publications
- Wednesday Eden, 'Decision of the Municipal Court in Prague (Czech Republic) of Oct. 11, 2023, No. 10 C 13/2023-16' (2024) 71(3) Journal of the Copyright Society of the USA 595
- Wednesday Eden, 'The "Unpropertizable" Public Domain in UK and EU Copyright Law' (2024) 71(1) Journal of the Copyright Society of the USA 147.
- Wednesday Eden, 'A Kaleidoscopic Mapping of Intellectual Property Discourses: Is the Public Domain an Illusory Concept That Is Invoked to Justify Excessive Monopolies?' (2020) 60 IDEA 235.