Tanya Aplin is a Professor of Intellectual Property Law at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London. She is also a Global Distinguished Professor at Notre Dame Law School and has been an adjunct professor/visiting lecturer at Pepperdine School of Law, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, Melbourne Law School, Turin Law School, Paris II, College de droit and University of Lyon III.

Prof. Aplin serves on the Editorial Board for the Modern Law Review, Current Legal Problems and the Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property and is General Editor for the Information Law and Regulation series published by Hart. She is also an Overseas Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law.

Some of Prof. Aplin’s publications include: Intellectual Property: Patents, Copyright, Trade Marks and Allied Rights 10^th ed (2023) (with Prof. Cornish and Prof. Llewelyn), Gurry on Breach of Confidence: The Protection of Confidential Information (OUP, 2012) (with Prof. Bently, Prof. Johnson and Mr Malynicz KC); Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Digital Technologies (Elgar: 2020) and Global Mandatory Fair Use: The Nature and Scope of the Right to Quote Copyright Works (CUP 2020) (with Prof. Bently). She also co-authored a Report for WIPO on the Interplay of Patents & Trade Secrets in Medical Technologies (2023). For a full list of publication see here.

Her work, particularly, on breach of confidence, has been widely cited by courts in the UK and Commonwealth, e.g.: Priscilla Ling v Amber Compounding [2024] SGCA 16; JC Bamford Excavators v Manitou [2023] EWCA Civ 840; New Aim v Leung [2022] FCA 722; The Racing Partnership Ltd v Sports Information Services Ltd [2020] EWCA Civ 1300; Tecnicas Reunidas SA v Andrew [2018] NSWCA 192; Kerry Ingredients v Bakkavor Group [2016] EWHC 2448 (Ch); Sports Direct International v Rangers International [2016] EWHC 85 (Ch); ANB v ANC [2015] SGCA 43; AGA Medical Corporation [2014] EWHC 2506 (Pat); Conductive Inkjet Technology Ltd v Uni -Pixel Displays Inc [2013] EWHC 2968 (Ch).