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Ms Kimberlee Weatherall

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Senior Fellows (The Melbourne Law Masters)
Senior Fellow
University of Queensland

Kim is an Associate Director of the Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia (IPRIA). Kim's research interests span copyright, trade mark and patent law. She has a particular interest intellectual property theory, and in the intersection between law and technology, having taught a Seminar in Internet and the Law at the University of Sydney. She has published on areas as diverse as indigenous intellectual property rights, and the file-sharing phenomenon.

Kim joined Melbourne Law School after two years as a Lecturer in Commercial Law at the University of Sydney Law School. Kim has also practiced law with Mallesons Stephen Jaques in their intellectual property group in Sydney, and has studied at Oxford University and Yale University, specializing in intellectual property and property theory.

Kim contributes to two weblogs: Lawfont, a group weblog focusing on law and technology issues, and her own personal weblog, Weatherall's Law, which has been going since 2003 and focuses specifically on IP law and policy from an Australian angle.


Areas of Expertise:

Teaching:
The Melbourne Law Masters:
  • Copyright Law (2009)


  • Current Research Interests

     

    Enforcement of Intellectual Property Law; the Law and Economics of Copyright; International Intellectual Property; Impact of the US-Australia FTA on Australian IP law; IP in a digital context


    Memberships and Affiliations

    Member, Board of Directors, Australian Digital Alliance

    Member, Law Council of Australia, Business Law Section, Intellectual Property Committee

     


    Kimberlee Weatherall


    Curriculum Vitae (.doc)
     
    Phone:
    +61 3 834 41120
     
    Fax:
    +61 3 9348 2353
     
    Email:
    Kimberlee Weatherall
     
    Room:
    0954