Alan Story, LLB (Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, Canada), and LLM (Cornell Law School, Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.) teaches Intellectual Property at the undergraduate and graduate levels at Kent Law School in Canterbury, Kent, UK. A Canadian, he was an investigative and political journalist in the 1980s with The Toronto Star in Nova Scotia and Toronto, Canada before making a career change a decade ago. Prior to joining Kent Law School in August 1999, Alan  taught Intellectual Property, Information Technology Law, Property, and Trusts & Equity at the University of Hull Law School from 1995-98. His previous academic work on U.S. labour law, compensation for banned handguns, and Cuba’s expropriation of U.S. property has been published in the Berkeley Journal of Labor and Employment Law, the Modern Law Review and the Journal of Political Philosophy. His handguns article was awarded the Lord Wedderburn Prize (1999) as the best article by a younger legal scholar in the Modern Law Review in 1998. More recently he has written articles on who owns intellectual property rights to Princess Diana, on biopiracy, on copyright and economic questions arising from the UK Higher Education Copying Accord . He is now starting research for a book on the economics and politics of intellectual property.