Catherine Bond

Lecturer

BMedia LLB (Hons) Macq, PhD UNSW

Contact details

Room:

230 Law Building

Phone:

9385 2259

E-mail:

catherine.bond@unsw.edu.au

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Brief overview

Dr Catherine Bond joined the School of Law as a Lecturer in Semester 2 2009. Prior to this she came to the Faculty as a PhD Candidate in 2006 as part of the Australian Research Council-funded "Unlocking IP" project, based at the Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre. Catherine holds degrees in Media and Law (with Honours Class 1) from Macquarie University and a PhD from UNSW. Her doctoral thesis, 'For the Term of His Natural Life ... Plus Seventy Years' explored the constitutional, legislative and historical aspects of the public domain in Australian copyright.

Catherine is the current Director of the LLM (Media & Technology Law) stream and the new Master of Law, Media and Journalism, commencing for the first time in Semester 1 2012.

Courses taught

Areas of expertise

Intellectual property, copyright law and the public domain, Crown copyright, colonial copyright, legal history, relationship between the Australian Constitution and intellectual property

Research supervision

Eugenia Georgiades, ‘Protecting user’s generating content’ (with Graham Greenleaf)

Grants

Australian Research Council LIEF Grant 2012: 'The Australasian Legal History Library: Creating historical depth in legal data on AustLII, to improve all legal research'. Researchers:Mowbray, Prof Andrew S; Greenleaf, Prof Graham W; Ford, Dr Lisa M; Nettelbeck, Prof Amanda E; Grantham, Prof Ross B; Twomey, A/Prof Anne F; Finnane, Prof Mark J; Williams, Prof John M; Buck, Prof Andrew R; Kercher, Prof Bruce R; Adams, Prof Michael A; Foster, A/Prof Robert K; Petrow, A/Prof Stefan; Bond, Dr Catherine M; Dorsett, A/Prof Shaunnagh G; Lunney, Prof Mark D; McDermott, A/Prof Peter M; Prest, Em/Prof Wilfrid R; Jones, Ms Judith S; Irving, Prof Helen D; Otlowski, Prof Margaret F; Peterson, Mr Naish.