Karen O'Neill

Teaching Fellow

Course Director - Law and Sociology
UG Wellbeing Tutor (Final Year)

Intellectual Property; Artificial Intelligence; Software; Copyright; New Materialism; Philosophy of Law; Philosophy of Computer Science

School of Law
S1.16, Social Sciences Building
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
United Kingdom

Scholarship

Karen’s main research areas are in intellectual property and cyber law. Her current doctoral research investigates authorship of computer-generated works (CGWs). Karen’s research takes an innovative approach as it utilises the theory of new materialism, which has underpinnings in quantum physics and philosophy. Her research provides an ontological understanding of computer-generated works. This is done by focusing on the materials and material effects of a CGW, so the processes involved in such a work become more visible.

Bio

Karen O’Neill is a teaching fellow at Warwick Law School, teaching intellectual property law. Karen is an experienced law lecturer, with over twenty years’ lecturing experience both in the higher education and further education sectors. Prior to teaching at Warwick, Karen taught crime, contract and tort law for six years at the Open University.

Karen is currently completing her doctoral research in artificial intelligence, software, and copyright law, at Birmingham University. Prior to this, Karen, specialised in intellectual property and cyberlaw, as part of conducting her LLM studies at Birmingham University.

Teaching