Rate My Professor Nikos Koutras

Dr. Nikos Koutras serves as Senior Lecturer in Law at Curtin Law School, Faculty of Business and Law, Curtin University in Perth, Australia. He earned a PhD in Law from Macquarie University in 2018, a PhD in Political Science from Ionian University, a Master of Science in Information Science with First Class Honours, a Bachelor of Science in Political Science with Second Class Honours, and a Graduate Certificate in Higher Education, Learning, Teaching, and Innovation from Curtin University in 2024, attaining Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) under the UK Professional Standards Framework. His career includes prior positions as Lecturer in Law at Edith Cowan University's School of Business and Law from 2019 to 2022, Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Antwerp's Law Research School, and Research Assistant in the Department of Business Law and Taxation at Monash University from 2015 to 2016. With over a decade of experience in legal research and teaching, Koutras has supervised projects, developed curricula, and contributed to institutional repositories and policy discussions.

Koutras specializes in intellectual property and open access governance, with research interests encompassing copyright law, open access repositories, AI-generated outputs and intellectual property challenges, European consumer law, data protection regulations, and public policy on openness. He has produced 42 publications, including 'Building Equitable Access to Knowledge Through Open Access Repositories' (2020), 'How “open” are Australian museums? A review through the lens of copyright governance' (2023), 'Remedying Copyright for Indigenous Australians: A Stolen Generations Perspective' (2025), 'Recreating Creativity, Reinventing Inventiveness: Challenges Facing Intellectual Property Law' (2024), 'Thaler and Contextually Sound AI Regulation' (2024), and 'The Public Policy Basis for Open Access Publishing: A Scientific Approach' (2020). His work has garnered 85 citations. Koutras received the Curtin Law School Dean's Colleague Award for Learning and Teaching in 2025, a Global Award for an Innovative Faculty or School project in 2023, and serves as Deputy Chair of Curtin University's Early and Mid-Career Researchers Network since 2025. He was re-elected as a Board Member of the International Society for Ethics and Information in 2025.