Mariam Aroian guest researcher at IGIR

Mariam Aroian is an intellectual property law researcher specializing in the intersection of modern technologies and legal governance. She holds an LL.M. in Intellectual Property and Technology Law from the National University of Singapore. Mariam has worked as a Research Associate at the Centre for Technology, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and the Law (National University of Singapore) and has recently completed advanced studies in AI and IP at the Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies avec mention très bien (CEIPI, University of Strasbourg). Her research focuses on global IP governance and ethical frameworks for emerging technologies. She has published and presented on intellectual property, cultural rights, and art law, with a particular focus on how these concepts evolve in response to modern technologies and the development of AI.

While at IGIR, Mariam will develop her research on copyright protection of architectural works in the context of emerging technologies and AI tools. She presented preliminary findings from this research at the academic conference 'Intellectual Property and Technology in the 21st Century: Challenges in the Next Decade' (Singapore, August 2025), co-organized by the National University of Singapore, Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts, Oxford IP Research Center, and Tsinghua University Center for IP. Through comparative legal analysis, her work investigates how different jurisdictions are addressing these challenges, with particular focus on anticipating how copyright protection for architectural works will evolve in an increasingly AI-driven landscape.