Biography

Jaime Stapleton has been an Associate Research Fellow of the School of Law, Birkbeck College, University of London since January 2006. He speaks regularly in the UK and Europe on issues relating to creative practice, law and political economy. (See Recent Events.) He serves on the Editorial Board of Cambridge University’s Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900) project and is a member of the Christiania Researchers in Residence in Christiania (CRIR) programme in Copenhagen. He has also recently completed a research project as an external consultant for the Creative Industries Division of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO). The project examines the potential economic, social and cultural impact assessment of copyright laws.

Until 2005, he was the Research Coordinator of the Adelphi Charter on Creative, Innovation and Intellectual Property, an intellectual property reform project based at the Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, Manufacture and Commerce (Royal Society of Arts/RSA) in London. He also worked part-time as an Art & Industry Officer at the National Office of the Arts Council of England, the principle public arts funding body in the UK between 2003 and 2006.

Between 1994 and 2002, he taught art history and critical theory to undergraduate and postgraduate artists and art historians in a number of universities in the UK, including a long association with the departments of Historical & Cultural Studies and Visual Arts at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Prior to academia, he worked as an artist and in the art market.

Contact

jaime[at]jaimestapleton[dot]net