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Hyo Yoon Kang , Ph.D (Law) European University Institute
LL.M. London School of Economics

Bild Area of Specialisation
Intellectual property in contemporary life sciences

Area of Competence
Intellectual property law, esp. patents, property law, social and legal theory, anthropology and law

Research Focus
Science studies, law as material culture, history and anthropology of sciences, anthropology of law

I am interested in the processes and practices by which hybrid legal-technoscientific knowledges are constituted, identified and negotiated. I have studied patent law as a site where such tensions and productions occur by drawing on insights from social theory, science studies, anthropology, history of science, gender and literary theories.

In my doctoral dissertation, I examined the implication of intellectual property in genomic technologies on the concepts of human personhood and agency.

In my previous research, I have studied the degree of law-science interaction by exploring the patent classification as a hybrid site of technoscientific classification.

Currently, I am studying the material culture and practice of patent law, particularly its techniques of inscription and the material organisation of patent documents.

Publications

  1. Journal Articles
  2. Articles in Edited Volumes

Journal Articles

  • (2012) ‘Science Inside Law. The Making of a New Patent Class in the International Patent Classification’, in: Science in Context, forthcoming.

  • (2006) ‘An exploration into law and narratives: the case of intellectual property law of biotechnology’, in: Law and Critique, Bd. 17 (2), S. 239-265.
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Articles in Edited Volumes

  • (2012) ’Autonomie/Code: Überlegungen zu Software-Rhetorik in Postgenomik und künstlicher Intelligenz’, in: Jochen Bung & Malte Gruber (Hg): Autonome Automaten. Künstliche Körper und Artifizielle Agenten in der technisierten Gesellschaft (Berlin: Kritische Reihe, trafo Verlag), forthcoming.

  • (2011) 'Homo Postdoctus', in: Eine Naturgeschichte für das 21. Jahrhundert. Zu Ehren von Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Berlin: Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte.

  • (2011) ‘Autonomic computing, genomic data and human agency: the case for embodiment’, in: Mireille Hildebrandt & Antoinette Rouvroy (Hg.), Autonomic Computing and Transformation of Human Agency, London, New York: Routledge.

  • (2009) ‘Classifying Novelty. Transfer and negotiation of scientific knowledge in the International Patent Classification’, in: Jean-Paul Gauldilliere & Dan Kevles (Hg.), Living Properties: Making Knowledge and Controlling Ownership in the History of Biology, MPIWG Preprint, Nr. 382 , S. 123-136.
  • (2007) ‘Identifying John Moore: narratives of persona in patent law relating to inventions of human origin’, in: Peter Glasner, Paul Atkinson, Helen Greenslade (Hg.), New Genetics, New Social Formations, London, New York: Routledge, S. 138-154.
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Teaching
Spring Semester 2010: Science, Biotechnology and Law (course description)

Education (CV)
2006 – 2009 Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany
Post-doctoral research fellow, Department of Prof. Hans-Jörg Rheinberger.

2006 European University Institute, Florence, Italy, Ph.D. in Law. Dissertation: "Processes of Individuation and Multiplicity: the Human Person in Patent Law relating to Human Genetic Material and Information".
Supervisor: Prof. Karl-Heinz Ladeur, Jury members: Prof. Tim Murphy (LSE), Prof. Graham Laurie (Edinburgh), Prof. Christian Joerges (EUI).
(funded by scholarships of German Academic Exchange Service and the European University Institute)

2002- 2003 University of California at Berkeley, Visiting research student at the Boalt Hall School of Law and Department of Anthropology.
(funded by a visiting fellowship of the European University Institute)

2000 London School of Economics and Political Science, Masters of Law (LL.M.) with Distinction

1998 London School of Economics and Political Science, B.Sc. Government and Law