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Overview Jill McKeough is a long-standing member of the Law School and has previously been Head of School , Associate Dean for Undergraduate Students and Associate Dean (Coursework). Publications include Intellectual Property in Australia, 3rd edition, Lexis Nexis 2004 (with Professors Andrew Stewart of Flinders University and Philip Griffith of UTS); Consumer Protection In Australia 5th edition, Federation Press 1998 (with Goldring, Maher, Pearson) and Intellectual Property: Cases and Commentary, 3nd edition, LBC, 2002 (with Bowrey and Griffith). In addition to these books Jill McKeough is an experienced conference presenter and has published articles on intellectual property in scientific research, competition policy and copyright, patents, indigenous issues and the human genome diversity project. Jill McKeough is currently on the boards of the Arts Law Centre of Australia, the Communications Law Centre, The Institute for Biomedical Research and the UNSW Professorial Superannuation Scheme. She is a member of the Law Council of Australia’s Intellectual Property Committee and has served on the on the Copyright and Intellectual Property Committee of the Australian Vice-Chancellor’s Committee, and thereafter the Standing Committee on Information Policy until 1998. Jill was a member of the Ergas Committee (Intellectual Property Competition Review Committee) which reported to the Federal Government at the end of September 2000. In conjunction with Kathy Bowrey and Meiring de Villiers Jill teaches the undergraduate course LAWS2021 Industrial and Intellectual Property and with Bryan Mercurio the postgraduate course LAWS4021 Issues in Intellectual Property Law. She also coordinates and teaches in the postgraduate courses LAWS4018 Principles of Intellectual Property designed for LLM students who have not studied IP before, and the MLS version Intellectual Property: Regulation and Policy. New courses planned in the IP stream include one on the international context of IP and a subject on commercialising intellectual property. Jill is currently supervising PhD students writing in the areas of gene patenting and ‘digital agenda’ issues. Courses Taught LAWS1120 Legal System Torts LAWS2021 Industrial and Intellectual Property LAWS4021 Issues in Intellectual Property Research Interests Intellectual property Current Research Projects Industry issues arising out of intellectual property and competition review investigation Commercialising digital property Journal Affiliations New Zealand Business Law Quarterly, Member Editorial Board |
