Dr. Andrea Wallace

Andrea is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Exeter. She has a PhD in Cultural Heritage Law from the University of Glasgow with the CREATe RCUK Centre for Copyright and New Business Models in the Creative Economy in partnership with the National Library of Scotland. Andrea previously received an LLM in European Business Law from Radboud University in the Netherlands, a JD from DePaul University College of Law in Chicago, and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is also a registered attorney with the Illinois State Bar in the United States.

Research Interests

Andrea explores legal issues surrounding copyright, cultural institutions, and the public domain. Her research considers the impact of digital technologies on the preservation, interpretation, and dissemination of cultural heritage and the obstacles and opportunities presented by the digital realm. She frequently writes and presents on open culture and the impact that a claim to copyright in reproductions has on meaningful access to and reuse of cultural heritage in the public domain.

Recently, Andrea completed the Display At Your Own Risk project, a research-led exhibition experiment featuring digital surrogates of public domain works made available by cultural institutions around the world. Her work has been written about by Hyperallergic and curated in the group exhibition No Copyright Infringement Intended.

Andrea is currently working on a new resource called the Copyright Cortex, which catalogues material about copyright and digital cultural heritage to provide the GLAM sector with scholarly commentary, practical guidance, and real world case studies all in one place.