{"id":8932,"date":"2026-05-20T17:11:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T16:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/?p=8932"},"modified":"2026-05-20T17:20:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T16:20:02","slug":"dr-jose-bellido-elected-fellow-of-the-royal-historical-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/dr-jose-bellido-elected-fellow-of-the-royal-historical-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Jose Bellido elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society"},"content":{"rendered":"
In May 2026, Dr Jose Bellido<\/a> was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS), in recognition of his contributions to historical scholarship. The Royal Historical Society, based at University College London, is one of the UK’s most prestigious learned societies for history. It advocates for historians and the value of history, fosters connections across historical communities, and supports historical enquiry through funding and publishing.<\/p>\n
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His monograph,\u00a0Adventures in Childhood: Intellectual Property, Imagination and the Business of Play<\/i><\/a>\u00a0(Cambridge University Press, 2022), co-authored with Kathy Bowrey, has been widely recognised for its originality and interdisciplinary contribution to understanding intellectual property, culture, and consumption (Modern Law Review<\/i><\/a>\u00a02024: 1384-1388;\u00a0Intellectual Property Forum<\/i><\/a>\u00a02023: 62-65).\u00a0The book examined the rise of merchandising during the twentieth century. It has been described by reviewers as \u201ca profoundly original book that combines exquisite archival work and acute social insight\u201d, \u201c[a book] that quite radically changes our understanding of how intellectual property function, and to what effect\u201d and \u201ca captivating story of how law, media and culture has interacted to construct the subjectivities of child, family, consumer\u201d.<\/p>\n

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He has also edited and co-edited various influential volumes in the field, including one that brought together the world\u2019s leading experts on intellectual property history:\u00a0Landmark Cases in Intellectual Property Law<\/i><\/a>\u00a0<\/i>(Bloomsbury, 2017) and the first book on the links between intellectual property law and nature:\u00a0Intellectual Property and the\u00a0Design of Nature<\/i><\/a>\u00a0<\/i>(Oxford University Press, 2023) [co-edited with Brad Sherman]. This volume represented a pioneering contribution to the study of this relationship, highlighting the central position that nature occupies across the discipline, and was shortlisted as the best book on design of the year in\u00a0IPkat<\/a>.<\/div>\n

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More recently, he has also published the first monograph in Spanish that examines the work of the French legal theorist Pierre Legendre (La dimensi\u00f3n juridica de la vida<\/i>\u00a0(Madrid, Centro de Estudios Pol\u00edticos y Constitucionales 2024<\/a>) which has also been praised by legal theorists such as Jos\u00e9 Luis Villaca\u00f1as\u00a0(\u201cLa esquizofrenia europea\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Discusiones Filos\u00f3ficas<\/i><\/a>. 2024. pp. 51 \u2013 69).<\/div>\n

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More info:\u00a0https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/<\/a><\/div>\n