Pratyush Nath Upreti is a lawyer admitted to the Nepal Bar Council. He is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast, United Kingdom. He is also a Research Affiliate at Sciences Po Paris, France, and the Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki, Finland.

He has represented international organizations at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), and specialized agencies of the United Nations and delivered an Electronic Information for Libraries (EIFL) statement on the Marrakesh Treaty at the WIPO General Assemblies-2016. He has advised the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).

Pratyush has taught Intellectual Property & International Trade Law for the Europe-America and the Europe-Asia Program of Sciences Po. He is the author of ‘Intellectual Property Objectives in International Investment Agreements’ (2022) published by Edward Elgar. His work has been featured/is forthcoming in journals such as the International & Comparative Law Quarterly (ICLQ), World Trade Review, the International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law (IIC), the Journal of World Intellectual Property, the Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, the European Intellectual Property Review (EIPR), the Journal of World Trade, the Berkeley Journal of International Law, the American Review of International Arbitration, and others. His research outcomes have received awards – First Prize in the ATRIP Essay Competition for Young Researchers in Intellectual Property Law, 2020, and the International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys (FICPI) Young Scholar Prize 2022 for his recent article entitled ‘A TWAIL Critique of Intellectual Property and Related Disputes in Investor-State Dispute Settlement’ in the 25(1) The Journal of World Intellectual Property Law 220-237 (2022).

He holds a Ph.D. from Sciences Po and a BSc.LLB (Hons) from KIIT University India, an LLM from Maastricht University, Netherlands, as a UM High Potential Scholar. His interests include intellectual property law, international investment law, and WTO-related issues. He has been a TTLF Fellow since June 2018.