Fulbright seminarium med Professor Paul Heald

Welcome to a seminar with Fulbright Professor Paul Heald

Hanken School of Economics will host a seminar with Professor Paul Heald on Tuesday 7 December 2021 at 14.00-15.00 (Helsinki time).

The seminar will be held online (via Teams).

Professor Paul Heald, the current Fulbright-Hanken Distinguished Chair in Law and Economics, is the Albert J. Harno & Edward W. Cleary Chair in Law at the University of Illinois. He also serves as a fellow and researcher of CREATe at the University of Glasgow. He is a pioneer in the use of empirical methods to measure the effect of intellectual property law on markets for cultural goods, trademarks, and agricultural products.

Professor Heald's research at Hanken focuses on Finnish and Swedish literature, investigating how extended copyright terms negatively affect the availability and price of older books. He is also studying the negative effect of copyright on incentives to produce derivative works like audiobooks.

The topic of his seminar will be The Cost of Copyright: Comparative Empirical Findings

The seminar will be held in English. 

Registration for the seminar is closed. Hankens staff and students can participate without registration. More information can be found here. 

Registered participants will receive more details regarding the seminar via e-mail on Friday 3 December.

If you have any questions regarding the seminar, please contact alumni@hanken.fi.

The agreement between Hanken and the Fulbright Finland Foundation provides prominent American scholars the opportunity to spend a period at Hanken. During their visit, the scholar will lecture or conduct research and contribute in disseminating Hanken’s research and knowledge within the business community and society.

Fulbright Finland Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation that specialises in academic exchange between Finland and North America. The main goal is to support the internationalisation of Finnish universities and research.