Graeme Austin

Professor Graeme Austin is a Professor at Melbourne Law School within the Faculty of Law at the University of Melbourne, where he has been on the faculty since July 2011. Prior to joining Melbourne Law School, he served nearly ten years as a tenured professor at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, most recently holding the J. Byron McCormick Professorship of Law. Earlier academic appointments include positions at the University of Auckland and Victoria University of Wellington. From 1999 to 2001, Austin worked as a senior solicitor at the Auckland office of Chapman Tripp. He is admitted to the New Zealand Bar and holds a current practising certificate as a Barrister Sole. Austin's academic qualifications include an LLM and a JSD from Columbia Law School, complemented by first degrees comprising a BA (Hons), LLB, and LLM from Victoria University of Wellington.

Austin's research specializations center on the enforcement of intellectual property rights across international borders. He has authored many books and articles in this domain. A prominent publication is Human Rights and Intellectual Property: Mapping the Global Interface (Cambridge University Press, 2011), co-authored with Larry Helfer of Duke University. An elected member of the American Law Institute, he has served as an adviser to the Institute's project on cross-border enforcement of intellectual property rights. In 2010, Cambridge University selected him to deliver its fifth annual Hercel Smith Lecture on international intellectual property. These contributions underscore his influence in shaping academic discourse on international intellectual property law, private law, and related intersections with human rights and cross-border legal frameworks.

Professional Email: gaustin@unimelb.edu.au