Alina Trapova

Assistant Professor in Law and Autonomous Systems at The University of Nottingham. She completed her LLB at The University of Sheffield and obtained an LLM in Intellectual Property Law (with Distinction) from Queen Mary University of London. Afterwards, she obtained her PhD from Bocconi University (Milan). Before joining academia, Alina has worked at the European Union Intellectual Property Office in Alicante (Spain) as part of the Pan-European Seal Programme, where she acted as a Legal Assistant to the President of the Boards of Appeal, drafted appeal decisions on trade mark and design matters and assisted litigators of the Office when defending cases before the CJEU. Alina then spent some time in private practice, after which she moved to academia. She holds a PhD in Legal Studies (International and European Law) from Bocconi University in Milan (Italy), for which she was granted a full merit-based scholarship. Alina’s PhD thesis, entitled ‘EU Copyright Law and Machine Learning: A Net of Authorship Claims’, was awarded cum laude at her defence in 2021. For it, Alina spent time at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich. Alina has also collaborated with fashion institutes in Milan (Milano Fashion Institute and Accademia del Lusso). She has also acted as an external expert for the European Union Intellectual Property Office, the European Audiovisual Observatory, as well as the Ukrainian government. Alina is a Junior Editor at the Kluwer Copyright Blog. Alina is part of the University of Nottingham Commercial Law Centre (UNCLC).