• Reader in Intellectual Property Law, Brunel University of London

Dr Hayleigh Bosher is a Reader in Intellectual Property Law and Associate Dean (Professional Development and Graduate Outcomes) at Brunel University London, as well as, Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Intellectual Property, Policy and Management, a legal consultant in the creative industries, an advisor for the independent UK charity for professional musicians, Help Musicians.

Hayleigh is well-recognised in the field of intellectual property law, in particular copyright law and the creative industries, and has attained an international reputation in the field of music copyright in particular. Her work in this area has been cited extensively in academic, practitioner and policy outputs and she is regularly interviewed by numerous national and international media outlets, including the BBC, ITV, Sky News, Channel 5 News and The Guardian, The Times and The Wall Street Journal.

She is the author of Copyright in the Music Industry (Edward Elgar 2021) and co-host of the Whose Song Is It Anyway? Podcast. Hayleigh runs the IP Pro Bono Service at Brunel Law School. She holds a PhD in Copyright Law from Bournemouth University.

• 2023–present Reader, Brunel University London
• 2018–2023 Senior lecturer, Brunel University London

• 2017 Bournemouth University, PhD Law

• 2018 An analysis of the fundamental tensions between copyright and social media: The legal implications of sharing images on Instagram, International Review of Law, Computers & Technology
• 2017 The UK IPO's decision in The Willow Tea Rooms trade mark dispute, Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice
• 2016 Swings and roundabouts: The impact of legal drafting on the language and understanding of copyright law and the need for educational materials, International Review of Law, Computers & Technology

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