Clement Salung Petersen
20052020

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CV


Education

  • 2001:     Cand.jur. (LL.M) (University of Copenhagen)
  • 2004:     Lawyer
  • 2008:     PhD (University of Copenhagen)
  • 2009:     Assistant professor programme in teaching competence (CBS Learning Lab)

Employment

  • 2001-2005:     Assistant attorney/lawyer in Copenhagen
  • 2002-2005:     Tutor in Property Law, University of Copenhagen
  • 2005-2008:     PhD Student, University of Copenhagen
  • 2008-2011:     Assistant Professor, University of Copenhagen
  • 2011-2018:     Associate professor, University of Copenhagen
  • 2018-:            Professor, University of Copenhagen

Internal tasks and administration

  • 2009-2012:      Alternate member of the Academic Council
  • 2011-2014:      Vice-Head of the PhD Programme
  • 2013-:             Alternate member of the Practice Committee (University of Copenhagen)
  • 2014-:             Alternate member of the LL.M. Study Board
  • 2014-:             Named Person to support good scientific practice at the Faculty of Law
  • 2014-:             Co-responsible for the course "Civil Procedure Law" on the LL.M. Programme
  • 2019-:             Coordinator for the Dispute Resolution Research Group (RESOLVE)

External tasks

  • Head of Secretariat for the Danish Complaints Board for Domain Names (2018-)
  • Legal consultant for the Committee for Protection of Scholarly and Scientific Works (2012-)
  • Member of the Board of Directors, Inmold A/S and Heliac ApS (2016-) and Rel8 ApS (2019-)
  • Arbitrator
  • Guest lecturer at Lund University (2013-)
  • Guest lecturer at University of Strasbourg, Center for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI) (2019-)
  • Secretary for the Danish Complaints Board for Domain Names (2007-2018)
  • Chairman of the Board, the Danish Legal Research Education Programme (JurForsk) (2013-2014)
  • Member of the Board, the Danish Legal Research Education Programme (JurForsk) (2011-2013)

Research stays etc.

  • Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich (2006)
  • Oxford University, Institute of European and Comparative Law (2006)

Miscellaneous

Awarded Jorcks Fonds Forskningspris in 2012. Has also received external funding from NOS-HS (2011-2014), Dreyers Fond (2009), Det Finneske Legat (2008) and Awapatent AB's Stiftelse för Framjande av Immaterialrättslig Vetenskaplig Forskning (2005).

Memberships

  • International Association of Procedural Law (IAPL)
  • Nordic Association for Procedural Law (Nordisk Forening for Procesret, NFfP)
  • International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP)
  • Danish Copyright Society (Dansk Selskab for Ophavsret)
  • Foreningen Industriel Retsbeskyttelse (FIR/AIPPI)
  • IPenforce

Current research

Primary research areas

Clement Salung Petersen is broadly interested in civil justice, dispute resolution and enforcement, including

  • Civil procedure law
  • European procedural law, including procedural law aspects of EU law and the European Convention on Human Rights as well as the Unified Patent Court (UPC) and work on soft law harmonization of civil procedure law
  • Comparative civil procedure law
  • Alternative dispute resolution (ADR), including arbitration, mediation, online dispute resolution (ODR) and notice-and-action procedures
  • Enforcement law, in particular enforcement of intellectual property rights

A significant part of his research is published in international journals or books. He is also author or co-author of many research publications in Danish, including the following books:

  • Retsplejeloven med kommentarer (10. udgave 2018)
  • Immaterialret (4. udg. 2015, 5. udg. 2018)
  • Den civile retspleje (4. udg. 2017)
  • Judicielle forbud/påbud og immaterialretsproces (2015)
  • Immaterialrettigheder og foreløbige forbud (2008)

Research management

Clement Salung Petersen is a member of the Centre for Enterprise Liability (CEVIA) and coordinator for the Dispute Resolution Research Group (RESOLVE). He is currently working on a collaborative research project on "private governance" concerning the legal implications of private regulation, administration and dispute resolution. He is particularly interested in how the increasing societal role of private actors affects the role of courts in civil dispute resolution.

Clement Salung Petersen has comprehensive experience with management and administration of research. As vice-head of the PhD school (2011-2014), he was responsible for the PhD school's budgets, research education programmes and staff development. Clement Salung Petersen has supervised two PhD students who successfully defended their thesis in 2019:

  • Toms Krumins: Arbitration and Human Rights – Lack of a Mechanism for Setting Aside Arbitral Awards as a Violation of the European Convention on Human Rights
  • Vadym Semenov: Denying prohibitory injunctive relief in patent disputes: grounds and justifications

He is currently academic supervisor for assistant professor Johan Tufte-Kristensen.

Responsible conduct of research and innovation law

Clement Salung Petersen has for many years worked intensively with ethical and legal issues related to research and research collaboration. Besides his employment at the University of Copenhagen, he works as a consultant for the Danish Confederation of Academics' Committee for Protection of Scholarly and Scientific Works (Udvalget til beskyttelse af Videnskabeligt Arbejde, www.ubva.dk).

He is editor and author of a number of articles about the responsible conduct of research and legal issues related to research on the website www.forskerportalen.dk. Since 2014, he and his colleague professor Morten Rosenmeier have been appointed as Named Persons to support good scientific practice at the University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Law. He is also appointed as alternate member to the Practice Committee at the University of Copenhagen.

He has taught many courses on these topics to researchers and research administrators at the University of Copenhagen (Faculty of Law, Faculty of Social Sciences, Faculty of Theology and Faculty of Humanities), the IT University, the Royal Danish Defence College and courses organised by the UBVA.

Other areas of interest

  • Intellectual property law, in particular copyright, trademarks and internet domain names
  • Contracts, in particular publishing agreements, license agreements, R&D agreements etc.
  • Criminal procedure

Teaching

Clement Salung Petersen teaches the following courses:

  • Civilprocesret (in Danish) (LL.M. programme)
  • Civil procedure (LL.M. programme)
  • Good scientific practice (PhD programmes at the University of Copenhagen)

Clement Salung Petersen supervises master students within the following topics:

  • Civil procedure
  • Arbitration law
  • Enforcement law
  • Enforcement of intellectual property rights

Possible conflicts of interest

Please see my CV

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Keywords

  • Faculty of Law
  • civil procedure
  • intellectual property (IP) law
  • IP enforcement

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