Lydia Lundstedt, Cross-Border Trade Secret Disputes in the European Union: Jurisdiction and Applicable Law, Elgar Monographs in Private International Law (Edward Elgar Publishing October 2023) ISBN: 978 1 03531 510 9 Extent: 334 pp

Abstract

Lydia Lundstedt is an associate professor (Docent) and senior lecturer in private international law at Stockholm University and a senior lecturer in intellectual property law at Linköping University. Her research focuses on the interface between private international law and intellectual property law with comparative and international law perspectives. Lydia’s latest monograph, Cross Border Trade Secret Disputes in the European Union: Jurisdiction and Applicable Law (Edward Elgar Publishing 2023), examines how trade secret protection can differ across jurisdictions, where trade secret holders can bring proceedings, and which country’s law is applicable, and provides a prospective view on how this specialized legal area could be improved in the future. Lydia has also written several articles and book chapters for renowned journals such as IICInternational Review of Industrial Property and Copyright Law and GRUR International in addition to her dissertation, Territoriality in Intellectual Property Law: A comparative study of the interpretation and operation of the territoriality principle in the resolution of transborder intellectual property infringement disputes with respect to international civil jurisdiction, applicable law and the territorial scope of application of substantive intellectual property law in the European Union and the United States (Stockholm University 2016).

Lydia has an LL.D. and an LL.M. from Stockholms University, a J.D. from the Washington College of Law, American University, and a B.A. from George Washington University. She is a member of the New York and Washington, D.C. bar. In addition, Lydia is the general editor of the book series Scandinavian Studies in Law, which is affiliated with the Faculty of Law at Stockholm University.