Law School

Mr Kencho Peldon

PhD Candidate
TC Beirne School of Law
Mr Kencho Peldon

Biography

Kencho is a PhD candidate on the 'Harnessing Intellectual Property to Build Food Security' ARC Laureate Project at the University of Queensland School of Law. His research engages with history and law on agricultural systems and plant intellectual property. Kencho's current project examines British colonial agricultural laws and early legal arrangements on plants and crops, and linkages to the modern plant intellectual property system. He has previously worked within the public sector context on legal, policy and practice on plant intellectual property and patent system. Kencho has a Master of Intellectual Property law degree from Australia (2010), a Postgraduate Diploma in Public Administration from Bhutan (2006) and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from India (2005).

Kencho holds a Master of Intellectual Property law degree from Australia (2010), a Postgraduate Diploma in Public Administration from Bhutan (2006) and a Bachelor of Science degree from India (2005). He has worked for more than ten years in the field of legal and policy development for Bhutan’s intellectual property sector and is a professionally trained intellectual property examiner.

Project Title: Control of Cotton in Colonial India: Early Legal Regulation of Plant Intellectual Property

Supervisors: Professor Brad Sherman and Dr Susannah Chapman

Publications

  • Peldon, Kencho (2009) ‘Intellectual Property, Access to Medicines and Public Health issues in Bhutan’, Journal of Bhutan Studies, Volume 21, 2009, Thimphu, Bhutan

Publications

Conference Papers (7)

Conference Papers

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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.

Areas of research

Intellectual Property Law and Food Security