Dr. Pratyush Nath Upreti is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Law at the School of Law. He serves as the Programme Director of LLM in Intellectual Property Law, a program he co-designed with Professor Giancarlo Frosio.

He is a Research Affiliate at Sciences Po Paris and the Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki.  Before his appointment at Queen’s University Belfast, he held positions at the Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki, and the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition Law, Munich. He was a fellow at Stanford Law School, Transatlantic Technology Law Forum (TTLF) from 2018- 2023 (June).  

Before moving to academia, Pratyush practiced law, appeared before the Supreme Court of Nepal and sub-ordinate courts. He has taught in Nepal and continues to advise and write on legal and policy issues related to Nepal.  He is the author/editor of the following books:

1. 'Intellectual Property Objectives in International Investment Agreements' (Edward Elgar, 2022) [reviewed in the Journal of International Economic Law, Asian Journal of International Law and International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law ]. He was invited to give book talk at Cornell Law School, USA and University of Bergen, Norway. 
2.  Intellectual Property Rights in the Post-Pandemic World: An Integrated Framework of Sustainability, Innovation and Global Justice (Edward Elgar, 2023) [co-edited with T. Pihlajarinne and J.M Mähönen] [Reviewed in Oxford Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, 2024 and Intellectual Property Forum- the Journal of IP Society of Australia and New Zealand, 2024]
3. Intellectual Property Debates in South Asia: Law, Development, and Practice (Hart Publishing, 2025) (Forthcoming)

Pratyush has advised least developed countries (LDCs) Governments on intellectual property policies and acted as a consultant in private sector development projects focusing on IP, trade, and investment for the European Union (EU) funded projects. He has represented international organizations at the General Assembly of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) and is an expert for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).

In 2022, Pratyush’s commissioned a study for UNCTAD titled  Case of Geographical Indication Protection of the Mozambique White Prawn, UNCTAD/ALDC/2022/2, followed in 2023 by a study on Geographical Indication Protection of Mozambique's Cabrito de Tete (Tete Goat), UNCTAD/ALDC/2023/1). That same year, he was appointed as an IP expert to a seven-member committee formed by the World Health Organization (WHO) South-East Asia.

In 2024, Pratyush was a visiting Associate Professor at  Nanyang Technological University Singapore, and also a visiting scholar at the EW Barker Centre for Law & Business, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore.

Pratyush is also a visiting  faculty member of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), National Law University Delhi and Office of the Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trademarks Joint Master's/LLM in IP Law and Management and Ho Chin Minh City University of Law, Vietnam

 He is an elected Executive Committee Member of the Asian Society of International (AsianSIL), with its secretariat based at the National University of Singapore.  He also serves on the editorial board for the Global Trade and Customs Journal, Kluwer Law International and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). 

Pratyush is interested in areas of international intellectual property (IP) law and policy. Particularly, how national and international legal orders affect domestic  IP laws and policies. More broadly, interfaces of IP with other branches of international law such as international investment law and trade.

He is also interested in issues of IP, sustainability, and innovation. Increasingly, he is interested in interfaces of different legal regimes in international law with a focus on Asian Legal Studies (particularly South Asia)/Global South more generally. 

Intellectual Property Law

Legal Methods and Skills

Law and Technology

Foundations of IP Law, Theory, Economics & Policy (MC)

Global Intellectual Property, Trade and Technology  (MC) 

Innovation and Creativity Clinic: Project Based Learning (MC)

Prorgamme Co-ordinator of LLM-Intellectual Property Law (2023-)
Member of the School of Law Research Committee (2022-23)
Member of the School of Law Academic Offence Committee (2022-)

Member of the Post-Graduate Taught Programme (PGT) (2023-)