Annaliese Wren

Annaliese Wren

  • awren at bournemouth dot ac dot uk
  • Lecturer in Law
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Biography

Annaliese Wren is a Lecturer in Law and a member of the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy and Management (CIPPM) at Bournemouth University. She is a socio-legal scholar specialising in intellectual property law and art law, with a particular interest in copyright and its application to non-conventional forms of artistic expression.

Annaliese is Unit Lead for Human Rights Law and teaches LLB Contract Law, Administrative Law, and Media, Entertainment and Sports Law.

She is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA). Before entering academia, Annaliese worked for the Ministry of Justice and within the legal department of another government agency.

Research

Annaliese's research interests lie primarily in copyright and art law, with a particular focus on the relationship between copyright law and contemporary artistic practice. She is interested in how UK and EU copyright frameworks respond to non-conventional forms of artistic expression, including sensory and non-visual works.

Her doctoral research examines the definition of artistic works within UK copyright law, using non-visual, tactile artistic works as a case study to explore the extent to which existing copyright frameworks reflect visual assumptions about the nature of artistic expression.

Annaliese has a particular interest in empirical approaches to intellectual property law and in bringing the experiences of artists and other stakeholders into copyright scholarship. Her research combines empirical qualitative methods with doctrinal and historical analysis to explore the relationship between copyright doctrine, artistic practice and the experiences of those operating within the creative sector.

Her research is also informed by Critical Disability Theory, which she applies to intellectual property law to examine the assumptions embedded within existing legal frameworks and consider how copyright might better accommodate creators and audiences with different abilities. More broadly, she is interested in the role that intellectual property law can play in facilitating more inclusive forms of cultural participation and artistic expression.

Building upon these strands, her wider research interests include artists’ experiences and understandings of copyright law, the relationship between copyright and contemporary creative practice, and the challenges posed by emerging technological and non-conventional forms of artistic expression...

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Journal Articles

  • Wren, A., 2025. Tactile artistic works: A case study of visual biases within UK artistic copyright law. European Intellectual Property Review, 47 (7).
  • Wren, A., 2024. Book review: Eleonora Rosati, Copyright and the Court of Justice of the European Union (2nd Edition, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2023) 512 pp. Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property, 14 (2).

Conferences

  • Wren, A., 2026. Empirical Insights into the Definition of Artistic Works: The Gap Between Doctrine and Lived Experience in UK Copyright. In: Law and Society Association Annual Meeting 25/05/2026 San Francisco.
  • Wren, A., 2023. Assessing Drag Queen’s creative outputs as artistic ‘werks’ under UK copyright. In: Society of Legal Scholars 26/06/2023 Oxford.
  • Wren, A., 2023. Beyond the visual: The overlooked realm of tactile artistic works within UK artistic copyright. In: Socio-Legal Scholars Association 27/03/2023 University of Portsmouth.

Internet Publications

Profile of Teaching UG

  • Contract Law
  • Administrative Law
  • Human Rights Law (Unit Lead)
  • Media, Entertainment and Sports Law

Conference Presentations

  • Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Empirical Insights into the Definition of Artistic Works: The Gap Between Doctrine and Lived Experience in UK Copyright, 26 May 2026, San Francisco
  • Social- Legal Scholars Association Conference, Beyond the visual: Tactile works, empirical insights, and the gap between copyright doctrine and lived artistic experience, 01 Mar 2026, Brighton
  • European Policy for Intellectual Property, How can empirical data be used persuasively in legal and policy debates about the definition of a ‘work’ in copyright law?, 15 Sep 2025, Antwerp, Belgium
  • Law and Society Association, Tactile Artistic Works: A Case Study on Visual Bias within UK Copyright, 20 May 2025, Chicago, USA
  • Sensory Innovations and Creativity in the Arts, 21 Nov 2024, Leeds
  • Society of Legal Scholars Conference, Tactile Artistic Works: A Case Study on Visual Bias within UK Copyright, 09 Sep 2024, Bristol
  • Social- Legal Scholars Association Conference, Beyond the Visual: The Overlooked Realm of Tactile Artistic Works within EU and UK Copyright, 18 Mar 2024, Portsmouth
  • Faculty of Social Sciences and Law PGR Conference, Issues Facing Novel Forms of Artistic Expression in UK Copyright Law, 28 Sep 2023, Bristol
  • Society of Legal Scholars Conference, Assessing Drag Queen’s creative outputs as artistic ‘werks’ under UK copyright, 26 Jun 2023, Oxford

Memberships

  • Society of Legal Scholars, Member,
  • Social Legal Scholars Association, Member,
  • Law and Society Association, Member,
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