Overview
Background
Kencho Peldon is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Queensland and Centre for Policy Futures. His research explores the interactions between law and society with particular interests in the legal history of intellectual property in agriculture. He is interested in colonial and postcolonial studies, anthropology, science and law in researching agriculture and intellectual property.
Availability
- Dr Kencho Peldon is:
- Available for supervision
Fields of research
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Science (Psychology), Bharathiar University
- Postgraduate Diploma in Public Administration, Royal Institute of Management
- Masters (Coursework) of Intellectual Property Law, Queensland University of Technology
- Member, Law Society Association of Australia and New Zealand, Law Society Association of Australia and New Zealand
- Member, Law and Society Association, Law and Society Association
- Volunteer, New Zealand Historical Association, New Zealand Historical Association
- Member, UQ Biotechnology Society, UQ Biotechnology Society
Research interests
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Intellectual Property Law
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Agriculture and Food Security
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Colonial/post-colonial studies
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History and historiography
Works
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2024
Conference Publication
Rethinking Natural History, Law and Science Co-production in the British Colony of India in the late 1840s
Peldon, Kencho (2024). Rethinking Natural History, Law and Science Co-production in the British Colony of India in the late 1840s. Natural History in the Age of Revolutions, 1776–1848, London, United Kingdom, 15 July 2024.
2024
Conference Publication
Understanding the contested relationship between law, technology and society through the regulation of cotton in British Colonial India
Peldon, Kencho (2024). Understanding the contested relationship between law, technology and society through the regulation of cotton in British Colonial India. South Asia Forum Conference - Everyday in South Asia, Online and Melbourne, VIC Australia, 23-24 May 2024.
2023
Conference Publication
The role of the law in the transformation of colonial agricultural production in British Colonial India
Peldon, Kencho (2023). The role of the law in the transformation of colonial agricultural production in British Colonial India. Deus Ex Machina – Law – Technology – Humanities: Law, Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia Conference 2023, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 11–14 December 2023. Brisbane:
2023
Conference Publication
Regulating agricultural production and cultivation: one-variety cotton production laws in British India
Peldon, Kencho (2023). Regulating agricultural production and cultivation: one-variety cotton production laws in British India. Regulating Biotech: Reimagining Biology at the Interface of Science, Technology and the Market, Mumbai, India, 27 - 28, September 2023. Mumbai, India: Institute of Technology Bombay.
2023
Conference Publication
Governance of biological materials for agricultural crop production in British Colonial India, 1850-1940
Peldon, Kencho (2023). Governance of biological materials for agricultural crop production in British Colonial India, 1850-1940. The 3rd Asian Legal History Conference, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Graduate Law Centre, Hong Kong, 20-21 June 2023.
2023
Conference Publication
Rethinking intellectual property law and governance of biological materials through the agricultural crop production in the early twentieth-century British Colonial India
Peldon, Kencho (2023). Rethinking intellectual property law and governance of biological materials through the agricultural crop production in the early twentieth-century British Colonial India. 5th Intellectual Property and Innovation Researchers of Asia, Singapore, 1-3 March 2023.
2022
Conference Publication
Rethinking intellectual property law and governance of biological materials: regulating cotton production in British Colonial India, c. 1920-1942
Peldon, Kencho (2022). Rethinking intellectual property law and governance of biological materials: regulating cotton production in British Colonial India, c. 1920-1942. 16th Annual South Asia Legal Studies Workship, Wisconsin, United States, 9 December 2022.
Supervision
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