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Kathy Bowrey

Associate Dean - Research
Professor

BA LLB Macq, SJD Syd


Contact Details

Telephone: +61 2 9385 9625
Email: k.bowrey@unsw.edu.au
Office: Law Building 236


Publications

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Overview

Dr Kathy Bowrey was appointed as a Professor to the Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales, Sydney in 2007. She has previously worked at University of Technology Sydney (2006-2007), UNSW (2000-2006) and Macquarie University (1990-1999). Her publications primarily relate to intellectual property and information technology regulation, reflecting a broad range of interests pertaining to socio-legal history, media and cultural studies, and legal theory.


Courses Taught

Diploma of Applied Intellectual Property
PG Specialisation: Masters of Law (Innovation Law stream)


Research Interests

Intellectual Property, Technology and Innovation, Globalisation and domestic law reform, Critical Theory, Legal Theory, Indigenous Rights, Law and Cultural policy, Cyberlaw (especially new media issues)


Current Research Projects

Current research projects include a consideration of the relevance of copyright’s categories to emerging global mass entertainment markets, a critical analysis of calls for cultural exceptions in intellectual property concerning indigenous intellectual and cultural property and the criterion of objectivity in assessing evidence in IP matters.


Grants

K Bowrey & M Handler ARC Discovery Grant (2009-2011) Entertainment Rights in the Age of the Franchise: A reappraisal of personality rights under Australian Intellectual Property Laws.

Prof GW Greenleaf; Prof MD Pendleton; Prof K Bowrey; Dr M Rimmer; Mr BC Mercurio; Prof BF Fitzgerald; Prof JP McKeough; Prof P Griffith; Mr P Chung; Prof J Dalziel; Mr I Oi; Mr PM Crisp ARC Linkage Project (2005-2009): Unlocking IP - Expanding public rights and the public domain in Australian copyright (LP0562485)


Journal Affiliations

Board of Editors, Transnational legal theory (Hart Publishing)

Advisory Panel, : Indian Journal of Intellectual Property Law (NALSAR)

Editorial Board, Journal of Law, Information and Science (UTAS)


Service to Discipline and the Profession

Chair, CALD RQF Working Party (2007)

Chair - CALD ERA Journal Ranking Steering Committee (2008-9)

Member, Steering Committee for a new interdisciplinary society launched in May 2008: The International Society for History and Theory of Intellectual Property (ISHTIP).

Key participant, AHRC New Directions in Copyright Research Network, Fiona Macmillan, Birkbeck School of Law, University of London, 2004-06





Other Activities

Current Higher Degree students:


(PhD) Catherine Bond, Mapping Australia’s Copyright Common (Bowrey/ Greenleaf)

(PhD) Louise Buckingham, Copyright and indigenous Works: A comparative analysis (Bowrey/Handler/Anderson)

(PhD) Susanne Lloyd Jones, Keep the Information Flowing: National Security and Communication regulation in the era of Co-regulation, Convergence and Global Terrorism. (Bowrey/Lynch)

(PhD) Natalie Fowell , Constructing the Public Domain in Australian Copyright Law (Bowrey)

(LLM) Sophia Christou, The `User` under law in the online environment: Beyond the legal perspective. (Bowrey/Handler)