Dr. Lisa Macklem is a lecturer in Business Law at King’s University College, and a PhD Candidate in Law at the University of Western Ontario. She was a scholarship fellow at CIGI, the Centre for International Governance Innovation for the 2015/2016 session. In the summer of 2017, Lisa returned to CIGI as a Research Assistant. Her Canadian JD is with a specialization in Intellectual Property and Information Technology and her American LLM is with a specialization in Entertainment and Media law. She is a member of the OBA, CBA, ABA, and BHBA. Currently, Lisa is on the Executive Board of the Ontario Bar Association Section on Entertainment, Media, and Communications Law, serving as Public Affairs Liaison for a second term. She is on the editorial board of The Journal of Fandom Studies and previously was a student editor and then a member of the alumni editorial board for the ABA Journal of International Media and Entertainment Law.
Lisa regularly presents on media, copyright, entertainment law, international law and trade, and popular culture. Media appearances include Current Topics (Intellectual Property Rights) on Gujarat television, January 2018, Canada AM in May 2016 and in August 2015 on This Week in the Law on the TWiT network, speaking on recent developments in technology and Internet law. Her dissertation is on the regulation of digital content on the Internet with a focus on the entertainment industry and culture. Among the issues that she studies are Entertainment and Media law, International law, trade and UN regulatory frameworks, telecommunications regulations, technology law, and Intellectual Property law, particularly copyright. Lisa is cited in the recently released Canadian government report of the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology’s Statutory Review of the Copyright Act (June 2019).
In addition to her legal degrees, Lisa also hold and MA in Media Studies and remains active in the Entertainment and Media Industry. While completing her LLM in Los Angeles, she externed with Screen Capital International, NuMedia Studios, and Cinema Libre Studio. Between 2013 and 2014 she was a consultant for CTS Productions in Montreal and has done consulting for various entertainment production and management companies. Among her publications in this area are two forthcoming collections on Supernatural that she is co-editing for McFarland. She recently won the Sabin Award for Comics Scholarship.
Lisa has also worked on the more practical side of entertainment, having stage managed for Creation Entertainment for five years. In addition to running the stage, duties also included liaising with facilities and managing technology needs. She also writes for SpoilerTv.com, and entertainment site, doing reviews and interviews and covering events such as Fan Expo in Toronto and San Diego Comic Con. Finally, she is active in the Science Fiction community, volunteering for Worldcon in several capacities. For LonCon in 2014 as Theatre Head, she produced seven plays in five days. More recently, she has been Social Media Head and Co-Theatre Head for Dublin2019 Worldcon and is Facilities Division Head for Titancon/Eurocon 2019 in Belfast.