Kencho Peldon is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Queensland and Centre for Policy Futures. His research explores the interactions between law and society with particular interests in the legal history of intellectual property in agriculture. He is interested in colonial and postcolonial studies, anthropology, science and law in researching agriculture and intellectual property.
Conference Publication: The role of the law in the transformation of colonial agricultural production in British Colonial India
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:
Conference Publication: Regulating agricultural production and cultivation: one-variety cotton production laws in British India
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.
Conference Publication: Governance of biological materials for agricultural crop production in British Colonial India, 1850-1940
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). 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.