Pinar Oruc

Dr Pinar Oruc joined the University of Manchester in 2021 as a Lecturer in Commercial Law. Pinar's research and teaching is in the area of Intellectual Property Law. She is a co-director for Manchester Centre for Law and Business.

Pinar has completed her PhD on copyright law and cultural heritage in Queen Mary University of London, supported by the Herchel Smith Intellectual Property PhD Scholarship. She also holds an LLM in International Commercial Law from Cardiff University and a BA in Law from Koc University.

Pinar has taught part-time at Queen Mary University of London (2015-2020), University College London (2018-2019) and University of Essex (2018-2019) on intellectual property law and cultural property law. In 2020, she joined UK Copyright and Creative Economy Centre (CREATe) at the University of Glasgow as a Postdoctoral Research Associate for the H2020 project ‘reCreating Europe: Rethinking digital copyright law for a culturally diverse, accessible, creative Europe’. Pinar's two projects were on (i) artificial Intelligence and text and data mining copyright exception, and (ii) copyright, digital heritage and place-making. 

Pinar's monograph 'Digitising Cultural Heritage: Clashes with Copyright Law' (Hart Publishing and the Institute of Art and Law, The Art Law Library Series), is published in July 2025 and is available on Open Access.

Fellow of Higher Education Academy

Istanbul Bar Association (Avukat)

Pinar’s research focuses on intellectual property law, especially copyright, and its intersection with technology, cultural property law, art law and Indigenous rights. 

2025/26

LAWS70101 Intellectual Property Law (LLM)

LAWS70261 Trade Mark Law & Policy (LLM)