Andres Guadamuz is a Lecturer in E-Commerce Law at the University of Edinburgh, where he is also a co-Director of the AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law.
Andres has Bachelor, Practitioner and Notary Public degrees from the University of Costa Rica. He's been in the UK since 1998 and obtained an LL.M. in International Business Law at the University of Hull and an M.Phil from Queen's University Belfast.
His main areas of research are open source software and licensing, in which he has published extensively, acting as a consultant for the World Intellectual Property Organization. Other research interests are: payment systems, technology transfer, the interaction between technology and the law, and the role of intellectual property in developing countries.