DrMetka Potocnik
Senior Lecturer in Law
Faculty of Arts, Business, and Social Sciences
- Senior Lecturer in LawFaculty of Arts, Business, and Social Sciences
- +44 1 902 32 Ext.2211 (Work)
- University of Wolverhampton, Law School, Nursery Street, Wolverhampton, WV1 1AD, United Kingdom
TEACHING INTERESTS
Dr. Potocnik is interested in teaching traditional subjects, as well as cross-disciplinary approach to legal disciplines. In particular, Dr. Potocnik teaches or is interested in the following:
1. Intellectual Property Law (Copyright, Trade Marks, Patents, Geographical Indications) - from national, comparative, international and transnational perspectives;
2. Arbitration (Commercial Arbitration and Investment Treaty Arbitration);
3. Intellectual Property Arbitration (as a newly emerging field of law);
4. Foreign Direct Investment and Substantive International Investment Law;
5. Commercial Law (domestic UK sales and the international 1980 CISG Convention);
6. EU Law (fundamental principles, 4 freedoms and fundamental rights).
For PhDs, Dr Potocnik supervises projects, which examine issues of intellectual property, from IP social justice perspective.
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONScreaming into the void: Reclaiming Black British Voices in Education2 Jun 2025
- DOCTORAL EXAMINATIONStitching The Gap: Closing the Wage Inequity with Copyright11 Apr 2025
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONPatent Law and Access to Health: the Case of Non-communicable Diseases1 May 2019
- DOCTORAL EXAMINATIONA Legal Analysis of the Attractiveness and Robustness of the Nigerian Energy Investment Legal Frameworks.26 Apr 2019
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONIntellectual Property Law and the Creative Industries in Nigeria1 Apr 2019