Rate My Professor Anne Fitzgerald

Anne Fitzgerald is a Lecturer in the School of Law at the University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia. She coordinates units such as Biotechnology Law (LAW338 and LLM538), Technology and the Law (LAW499), and Intellectual Property Law (LAW323). Her Google Scholar profile lists her research interests as intellectual property law, mining law, internet law, and online issues, with over 626 citations.

Fitzgerald holds a Doctor of the Science of Law (JSD) from Columbia University (2002), two Master of Laws degrees from Columbia University (1992) and University College London (1989), a Bachelor of Laws with Honours from the University of Tasmania (1984), a Graduate Diploma in Welfare Law from the University of Tasmania (1987), and a Bachelor of Social Work from the University of Queensland (1977). Admitted to practice law in Victoria and Tasmania, she is a barrister at the Queensland Bar and a member of Creative Commons Australia. She has taught Intellectual Property Law, Internet and E-Commerce Law, International Trade Law, and Natural Resources Law since 1991 at universities including Queensland University of Technology (as Professor of Law), University of Tasmania, Macquarie University, and Southern Cross University. At QUT Law School, she delivered courses on Patents and Biotechnological Inventions, Patent Law and Commercialisation, Intellectual Property Law, and Copyright Law, and supervised PhD and JSD students. From 2005, she contributed to the Government Information Licensing Framework project, and since 2007, she has led Creative Commons Australia's public sector initiatives, facilitating CC licence adoption by Australian governments. She served on Australia's Advisory Council on Intellectual Property (1996-1999) and the Copyright Law Review Committee's Expert Advisory Group (1995-1998), and provided consultancy for innovation system reviews and the Government 2.0 Taskforce.

Key publications include Internet and E-Commerce Law, Business and Policy (Thomson Reuters, 2011), Intellectual Property: In Principle (with B. Fitzgerald, 2004), A Guide to Developing Open Access Through Your Digital Repository (2007), and OAK Law Project Report No. 1: Creating a Legal Framework for Copyright Management of Open Access (2006). Her scholarship has shaped open access policies, data management, and digital IP frameworks in Australia.