Daniel Acquah
LL.D
danacq@utu.fi +358 29 450 4235 +358 50 349 5298 ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2665-382X |
International and European intellectual property law, African intellectual property law, law and development, law and social justice, human rights, TWAIL
Daniel Acquah is a Senior Lecturer and an Adjunct Professor of Intellectual Property Law. He currently holds an Academy Research Fellowship working on his project titled “Technical Assistance as an Enabler of the Constitutionalizing of Intellectual Property Norms in Africa" (TACIP). Before joining UTU, Daniel was a Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law at the School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool. He was also a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Turku Institute for Advanced Studies (2020-22), and a Senior Research Associate at the Brussels School of Governance (2018-21). He has master's degrees in Criminology and Criminal Justice (Glasgow Graduate School of Law), in Law (UTU), and double doctoral degrees in Law (UTU and Vrije Universiteit Brussel).
Daniel’s research interest and teaching lie in European and international intellectual property law, intellectual property and development issues, Third World Approaches to International Law (colonialism, decolonisation, postcolonialism), and global justice issues. He has collaborated on many Academy of Finland projects, including the eCoherence project, the TranSip project, the Constitutional Hedges of Intellectual Property project, and the Digital Disruption of Industry project funded by the Strategic Research Council at the Academy of Finland.
Daniel has taught intellectual property law at universities in Finland and abroad, including the University of Turku, the University of Eastern Finland, the Hanken School of Economics, the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and the University of Szeged, Hungary. He has visited faculty at leading intellectual property and EU law research sites such as the Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI), the University of Strasbourg, the Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute, and the Brussels School of Governance. He is a frequent speaker at international conferences and seminars and has published in respected international and European intellectual property law journals and edited book volumes.
OTMV2032 Comparative Trade Secret Law
UGSO0005 Intellectual Property Rights and Research
- Technical Assistance as a Tool for Implementing and Expanding Intellectual Property Treaty Obligations (2022) Intellectual Property Ordering Beyond Borders Acquah Daniel Opoku
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - The Unusual Extension of Imperial Intellectual Property Laws to Colonies in Africa (2022) Intellectual Property and the Law of Nations, 1860-1920 Acquah Daniel Opoku
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - Technical Assistance as a Hedge to Intellectual Property Exclusivity (2021) Global Intellectual Property Protection and New Constitutionalism: Hedging Exclusive Rights Acquah Daniel
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - AfCFTA, Technical Assistance and the Reproduction of Western-Style IP Norms in Africa (2020)
- AfronomicsLaw (Blog)
(Popularised article or blog post (E1)) - Revisiting the Question of Extending the Limits of Protection of Pharmaceutical Patents and Data Outside the EU – The Need to Rebalance (2020) Daniel Opoku Acquah
(Published development or research report or study (D4)) - Peter Mezei, Copyright Exhaustion: Law and policy of the United States and the European Union (Book Review) (2019)
- European Review of Private Law
(Article or data-article in scientific journal (B1)) - The Proposed Plant Breeders Bill of Ghana and the Food Sovereignty Conundrum (2019)
- AfronomicsLaw (Blog)
(Popularised article or blog post (E1)) - CJEU invokes ERTA principle to assert EU competence to ratify Marrakesh Treaty (2017)
- Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Intellectual Property, Developing Countries and the Law and Policy of the European Union : Towards Postcolonial Control of Development (2017) Acquah Daniel Opoku
(Doctoral dissertation (article) (G5)) - The CJEU broadens the scope of European SPCs, but shortens validity of its duration in certain Member States (2017)
- Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Customs enforcement of intellectual property in Europe and China (2016) Governance of Intellectual Property Rights in China and Europe Daniel Opoku Acquah, Kan He
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - Trends on the implementation of the EU Customs Regulation – for better or for worse? (2015)
- Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz Und Urheberrecht: Internationaler Teil
(Other (O2)) - Trends on the implementation of the EU Customs Regulation: for better or for worse? (2015)
- Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Balancing or Lobbying? On Access to Medicines, Border Measures and the European Parliament’s Amendments to the Proposed EU Trademark Rules (2014)
- Journal of Intellectual Property Rights
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Extending the Limits of Protection of Pharmaceutical Patents and Data Outside the EU - Is There a Need to Rebalance? (2014)
- International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Developments in the EU external IP and trade competence up to Lisbon: New wine in old bottles? (2011)
- Nir: Nordiskt Immateriellt Rattsskydd
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1))