Research Associates
Professor Andrew ChristieProfessor Andrew Christie was appointed as the first Davies Collison Cave Professor of Intellectual Property in 2002. From March 2002 to June 2008 he was the founding Director of the Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia (IPRIA), a national centre for multi-disciplinary research on the law, economics and management of intellectual property. IPRIA is based at the University of Melbourne, and is a joint enterprise of the Faculty of Law, the Faculty of Economics and Commerce, and the Melbourne Business School. Professor Christie is admitted to legal practice in Australia and the United Kingdom, and worked for many years in the intellectual property departments of law firms in Melbourne and London. He has particular expertise in the application of copyright, patent and trade mark law to the digital environment, and in patent protection for biotechnological innovations. He is a former member of the Copyright Law Review Committee appointed by the federal Attorney-General, and is a current member of the Advisory Council on Intellectual Property appointed by the federal Minister for Industry, Tourism and Resources.
Professor Iain M. Cockburn
Professor Iain M. Cockburn is Professor of Finance and Economics and Everett W. Lord Distinguished Faculty Scholar in the School of Management at Boston University, where he teaches and performs research in the areas of business strategy, intellectual property, economics of innovation, and management of high technology companies. Professor Cockburn graduated from the University of London in 1984, and completed his PhD in economics at Harvard University in 1990. Prior to coming to BU, he was the Van Dusen Professor of Business Administration in the Faculty of Commerce the University of British Columbia. He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is a former Associate Editor of Management Science and Coeditor of the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy.
Dr Catherine de Fontenay
Dr Catherine de Fontenay is an academic economist who has researched and taught in institutions across Australia. Prior to joining MBS, Catherine held positions at the University of New South Wales and the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at ANU. Her teaching and program directing expertise is extensive, and her subjects include economic development, managerial economics, game theory and business strategy, markets in developing countries, and industrial organisation. Catherine's work has been published in a range of international journals. Her research interests include development economics, industrial organisation, theory of contracts and organisations, and comparative institutional analysis. Her most recent project examined spiralling crime rates in developing countries, and assessed the resultant costs to business.
Professor Peter Drahos
Professor Peter Drahos is the head of the RegNet Program at the Australian National University. He holds degrees in law, politics, and philosophy. He has taught in the Department of Politics at the University of Adelaide and in the Law Faculty at the Australian National University. He was for several years an Officer of the Australian Commonwealth Attorney-General's Department where he drafted Commonwealth legislation. Before joining RegNet, Professor Drahos was for three years the Herchel Smith Senior Research Fellow in Intellectual Property in the Intellectual Property Unit in the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary College, University of London. He has published in law and social science journals on a variety of topics including contract, legal theory, telecommunications, and intellectual property.
Dr Nisvan Erkal
Dr Nisvan Erkal, is a Lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of Melbourne. She joined the department after completing her Ph.D. at the University of Maryland, College Park in 2002. Her main research areas include innovators’ strategic patenting and disclosure incentives, and the anti-competitive consequences of technology transfer agreements.
Professor Brian Fitzgerald
Professor Brian Fitzgerald, Head of Law School at Queensland University of Technology, holds postgraduate law degrees from Oxford University and Harvard University. He is co-editor of one of Australia's leading texts on E-Commerce, Software and the Internet - Going Digital 2000 - and has published articles on Law and the Internet, Technology Law and Intellectual Property Law in Australia, the United States, Europe and Japan.
Professor Joshua Gans
Professor Joshua Gans is one of Australia's top industrial economists and a world leader in research on innovation, licensing and the organisation of innovative activity. He is currently a Professor of Management (Information Economics) at the Melbourne Business School. He has worked extensively on IP issues in both Australia and the US, including the role of technology and IP protection in economic growth, IP issues associated with academic publishing, and choices associated with the commercialisation of ideas.
Dr Christine Greenhalgh
Dr Christine Greenhalgh is the Economics Research Director of the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre. She is Fellow and Tutor in Economics, St. Peter's College, and Reader in Economics, University of Oxford.
Associate Professor David Hsu
Associate Professor David Hsu is the Edward B. and Shirley R. Shils Term Assistant Professor of Management at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He graduated from Stanford University with undergraduate majors in economics and political science. After a few years working in industry, he received his master’s degree in public policy from Harvard University, followed by his Ph.D. in management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Hsu’s research interests are in entrepreneurial innovation and management. Within that domain, he has investigated topics such as intellectual property management, start-up innovation, technology commercialization strategy, and venture capital. His research has appeared in leading journals such as Industrial and Corporate Change, Journal of Finance, Management Science, RAND Journal of Economics, and Research Policy
Professor Dan Hunter
Professor Dan Hunter is a Professor in the Law School at the University of Melbourne. His expertise is in the fields of cyberspace and Internet law; artificial intelligence and cognitive science models of law; and electronic commerce regulation.
Associate Professor Andrew Kenyon
Associate Professor Andrew Kenyon is the Director of the Centre for Media and Communications Law at the Melbourne Law School, where he teaches the graduate subjects 'Defamation Law' and 'Regulation in the Digital Age', and the undergraduate subjects, 'Evidence' and 'Media Law'. Ass. Professor Kenyon is an expert in media law and researches in comparative defamation law, free speech and electronic media regulation, as well as copyright law. He is currently a Director of the Arts Law Centre of Australia and editor of the Media & Arts Law Review.
Professor Stephen King
Professor Stephen King is a Professorial Fellow at the Melbourne Business School and a Commissioner with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.
Dr Owen Morgan
Dr Owen Morgan is a leading New Zealand IP academic who teaches in The University of Auckland of Auckland Business School where he is also a Research Associate of the Mira Szaszy Research Centre for Maori and Pacific Economic Development. In recent years, Dr Morgan has concentrated on policy issues and he has made numerous submissions to Select Committees and in response to policy documents particularly on copyright and related rights. His current research interests include intellectual property issues as they relate to indigenous peoples; interdisciplinary research on innovation; and interdisciplinary research on call centres particularly relating to privacy and the protection of confidential information.
Dr Don O'Sullivan
Dr Don O'Sullivan joined the faculty at Melbourne Business School in 2008 from University College Cork, Ireland. Don's principal academic interest is in the impact of marketing activities on company performance. His research has been published in the European Journal of Marketing, and the Journal of Marketing among others, and his case studies on technology marketing are taught in business schools across Europe. Don is an active member of the Chief Marketing Officers (CMO) Council of the USA. Since 2003 he has led the Council's Marketing Performance Measurement (MPM) research program, and is a co-author of the Council's Report on this topic
Professor Sam Ricketson
Professor Sam Ricketson, is a world authority on intellectual property law. He is author of The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works: 1886 - 1986, A work that established him categorically on the international stage. He has held various academic appointments at the University of Melbourne from 1975 - 1991 and was appointed Sir Keith Aickin Professor of Commercial Law at Monash University in 1991. He practises part time at the Victorian Bar.
Associate Professor Michael Ryall
Associate Professor Ryall is a researcher in strategy and economics at the Melbourne Business School.
Dr Mark Rogers
Dr Mark Rogers is a Senior Research Associate of the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre and a Senior Fellow of the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economics and Social Research, the University of Melbourne.
Professor Danny Samson
Professor Danny Samson is a Professor of Management in the Department of Management and Marketing, and Associate Dean (Development), of the Faculty of Economics and Commerce, the University of Melbourne.
Assistant Professor Deepak Somaya
Assistant Professor Deepak Somaya's Research interests span high technology strategy, intellectual property strategy, enterpreunership, and the economics of innovation. In his recent and ongoing work, Somaya has studied the drivers and impact of strategies to acquire and enforce intellectual property in various industries and contexts. He has also researched international patent protection, and the linkages between innovation and intellectual property in complex multi-invention-product industries. Somaya's primary teaching interests are in managerial economics, international business and technology strategy.
Associate Professor Scott Stern
Associate Professor Scott Stern, is an Associate Professor in the Kellog School of Management, Northwestern University, USA.
Professor David Studdert
Professor David Studdert is a Federation Fellow at the University of Melbourne. He holds a joint professorial appointment at in the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences. He joined the faculty in January 2007 from the Harvard School of Public Health, where he was Associate Professor of Law and Public Health. Professor Studdert has previously held positions as a policy analyst at RAND (Santa Monica, USA), a policy advisor to the Victorian Minister for Health, and a practicing lawyer.
Ms Kimberlee Weatherall
Kimberlee Weatherall is a Senior Lecturer in the TC Beirne School of Law at The University of Queensland and an Adjunct Research Fellow with the Australian Centre for Intellectual Property in Agriculture. Prior to joining the Faculty in 2007, Kimberlee was a Senior Lecturer at the University of Melbourne and Associate Director (Law) of the Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia. She has also lectured at the University of Sydney, and worked as a solicitor at Mallesons Stephen Jaques in Sydney. She holds a Masters of Law from Yale University and a Bachelor of Civil Law from Oxford University. Kimberlee teaches and researches in intellectual property law, with a particular interest in digital copyright, the relationship between international trade and intellectual property, and the systems for administration and enforcement of intellectual property rights.She has been a member of the Law Council of Australia IP Subcommittee since 2006.
Ms Robin Wright
Robin Wright is a Research Fellow working for CMCL and IPRIA on the ARC funded research project Cultural Collections, Creators and Copyright: Museums, Galleries, Libraries and Archives and Australia's Digital Heritage. Robin's research interests include Australian and international copyright law and its intersection with the media and cultural industries, education and digital technologies. Her background includes practising as a corporate solicitor in Australia as well as project management and empirical and policy research in the film industry, on digital technology projects and in the arts in both Australia and the UK.
Associate Professor Anne Wyatt
Associate Professor Anne Wyatt has a First Class Honours degree, a University Medal, and is a Doctor of Philosophy. Her PhD is on the Chancellor's list of highest quality dissertations at the University of Technology, Sydney. She is an Academic Board member of the Institute of Chartered Accountant of Australia (ICAA) and is the Chair of the ICAA Financial Accounting Module Committee.
Dr Jongsay Yong
Dr Jongsay Yong is a Senior Research Fellow in the Applied Microeconomic Section of the Melbourne Institute. He joined the Melbourne Institute in 2002, after spending eight years as lecturer and later senior lecturer at the National University of Singapore. His research interests centre on theoretical and empirical issues in industrial economics and health economics. He is experienced in building and analysing theoretical models for empirical and policy analysis. In recent years he has expanded his research into data-intensive work with a particular focus on health economics and firm productivity. His current work includes a project on measuring hospital performance and quality, and another on investigating productivity of new firms and existing firms using firm-level data. Both projects are funded by the Australian Research Council under the Linkage Grant scheme.