Prof Anne Fitzgerald - Law and Justice Research Centre

Professor Anne Fitzgerald

JSD (Columbia), LLM (Columbia), LLM (London), LLB(Hons) (Tasmania), Grad. Dip. Welfare Law (Tasmania),
BSW (UQ), Barrister (Qld), Practitioner - High Court of Australia

Contact:

Room: Level 1/126 Margaret Street
Tel: (07) 3138 7695
Email: am.fitzgerald@qut.edu.au

Anne Fitzgerald is a Brisbane-based intellectual property and e-commerce lawyer. She is a Professor in Law Research at QUT Law School where she is involved in research on several projects including the OAK Law (Open Access to Knowledge – Law) project (see http://www.oaklaw.qut.edu.au), the Legal Framework for e-Research project (see http://www.e-research.law.qut.edu.au/) and the Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information (see http://www.crcsi.com.au).

Anne has a JSD degree from Columbia University, New York (2002) a LLM degree from Columbia University (1992) and a LLM (International Business Law) from the University of London (1989). She graduated in law from the University of Tasmania (LLB(Hons) 1984 and Grad. Dip. Welfare Law 1987), after first completing a social work degree at the University of Queensland (BSW 1977). She is a member of the Queensland Bar with a current practising certificate; she has also been admitted to legal practice in Victoria (Barrister and Solicitor, 1990) and Tasmania (Practitioner, 1985).

Anne has an extensive background in the areas of intellectual property law, internet and e-commerce law, international trade law and natural resources law. From 1991 she has taught subjects in these areas at several universities (including QUT, University of Tasmania and Macquarie University). Current teaching commitments at QUT include the LLM subjects Patent Law & Commercialisation, Electronic Commerce Law and the undergraduate law subject Internet Law.

Anne has served terms as a member of Australia’s two principal federal government-appointed standing advisory committees on intellectual property: she was a member of the Advisory Council on Intellectual Property (ACIP) which advises IP Australia from 1996 to 1999 and, as a member of the Copyright Law Review Committee’s Expert Advisory Group (1995 to 1998), participated in the CLRC’s major review (“the simplification reference”) of the Copyright Act. From 2004 to 2007 she was a member of the Queensland Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries’ Intellectual Property Advisory Group convened by that Department’s Director-General.

Research interests:

• Intellectual Property law
• Internet and E-commerce law
• International Trade law
• Regulation of natural resources

Units currently taught:

• Patent Law & Commercialisation (LWN147)
• Electronic Commerce Law (LWN125 )
• Internet Law (LWB482 )

Select Publications:

Recent publications include:

• IP Law Nutshell (with D Eliades), Lawbook Co/Thomson, Sydney, 3rd ed, 2008;
• Internet and E-Commerce Law: Policy, Law and Technology (with B Fitzgerald, and others), Lawbook Co/Thomson, Sydney 2007;
• Building the Infrastructure for Data Access and Reuse in Collaborative Research: An Analysis of the Legal Context (with K Pappalardo and others), QUT, 2007 (available online at http://eprints.qut.edu.au/archive/00008865/01/8865.pdf )
• Copyright (chapter) in "Australian Media Law", D Butler & S Rodrick, Lawbook Co/Thomson, Sydney, 3rd ed, 2007; and
• Intellectual Property: In Principle (with B Fitzgerald), Lawbook Co/Thomson, Sydney, 2004;
• Jurisdiction and the Internet (with B Fitzgerald and G Middleton) Lawbook Co/Thomson, 2004;
• Mining Agreements in the Regulation of the Australian Minerals Sector, chapter in Bastida, E, Waelde, T and Warden, J (eds), International and Comparative Mineral Law and Policy, Kluwer Law International, The Netherlands, 2004;
• Mining Agreements: Negotiated Frameworks in the Australian Minerals Sector, Prospect Media (now LexisNexis/Butterworths), 2002 (reviewed in the Australian Petroleum and Mining Law Journal, August 2002);

Membership of Professional & Academic Organisations

• Queensland Bar Association
• Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand