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Staff Profile of Mr Mark Hyland

Name:

Mr Mark Hyland

Position:

Lecturer in Law

Email:

Location:

Room 201, Top Floor, Athrolys

Phone:

01248 38 2585

Profile

Mr Mark Hyland graduated from University College Dublin (B.C.L.; Dipl. Eur. Law) and later did a Masters in European Union Law in the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He is an Irish-qualified solicitor. As part of his solicitor’s training, he did a period of in-service training in the European Commission, Brussels (Directorate-General Competition). Before joining Bangor Law School on a full-time basis in September 2010, he taught Copyright & Associated Rights and Commercial Law in University College Dublin, followed by a period at Carlow Institute of Technology, where he taught Contract Law and Family Law. While working as a lecturer in University College Dublin, Mr Hyland also supervised LL.M. dissertations in the field of Intellectual Property Law. From the start of academic year 2011/12, Mr Hyland will be programme director for both the LL.M. in Law and Banking and the LL.M. in International Intellectual Property Law.

Mr Hyland’s professional experience comprises work in academia and in private practice. His private practice experience encompasses EU Competition Law and Banking Law, the latter garnered whilst working in the Banking and Financial Services Department of one of Ireland’s largest law firms, Matheson Ormsby Prentice.    

Current Teaching

Undergraduate level

  • Intellectual Property Law

Postgraduate level

  • Intellectual Property Law (module coordinator)
  • International Banking Law (module coordinator)
  • Competition Law (module coordinator)

Research Interests

Mr Hyland’s main research interests are in the areas of Intellectual Property Law and the Conflict of Laws, with particular interests in:

  • Illegal peer-to-peer activity
  • Risks posed to intellectual property rights by the emergence of the Internet
  • The use of technological measures to safeguard intellectual property rights in the Digital Era
  • The interface between intellectual property and the Conflict of Laws
  • The practical difficulties of applying conflict of laws rules/principles in an online environment

 

Selected Publications

Books

Editor and contributor to “Technology and IP Law” (Law Society of Ireland/Bloomsbury Professional)  Published, August 2008. Mr Hyland wrote the chapter on Copyright Law.

Journal articles

"The Football Association Premier League ruling - the Bosman of exclusive broadcasting rights?" Communications Law, Volume 17, Issue 1, 2012 (pp. 7-13)

“Judicial Pragmatism Prevails in Sharman Ruling” (an analysis of the ruling in Universal Music Australia Ltd v. Sharman License Holdings Ltd, handed down by Australia’s Federal Court in September, 2005), Computer and Telecommunications Law Review, Volume 12, Issue 4, 2006 (pp 98-108)

“The Ever Expanding Nature of Copyright Liability Down Under” (analysis of the Com-Cen ruling, handed down by Australia’s Federal Court in July, 2005) Communications Law, Volume 10, Issue 5, 2005 (pp 157-163)  

“Following the Recent U.S. Supreme Court Ruling in MGM v. Grokster, has the Copyright Pendulum Swung Back to Copyright Holders?” Computer and Telecommunications Law Review, Volume 11, Issue 8, 2005

“Private International Law, - Redundant or Recyclable in the Digital Age?”,  appears as a chapter in ‘A Decade of Research @ the Crossroads of Law and ICT’, a Larcier publication, December 2000 (pp 127-143) .