Peter Drahos
Encyclopedia
Professor Peter Drahos is an Australian academic and researcher specializing in the areas of intellectual property
and global business regulation amongst others. He is the Director of the Centre for Governance of Knowledge and Development and the Head of Program of the Regulatory Institutions Network at the Australian National University
. He has served in an advisory capacity to various governments and international organisations on intellectual property issues and formerly held a Chair in Intellectual Property at the University of London
. He is also a member of the Australian Bar.
Intellectual property
Intellectual property is a term referring to a number of distinct types of creations of the mind for which a set of exclusive rights are recognized—and the corresponding fields of law...
and global business regulation amongst others. He is the Director of the Centre for Governance of Knowledge and Development and the Head of Program of the Regulatory Institutions Network at the Australian National University
Australian National University
The Australian National University is a teaching and research university located in the Australian capital, Canberra.As of 2009, the ANU employs 3,945 administrative staff who teach approximately 10,000 undergraduates, and 7,500 postgraduate students...
. He has served in an advisory capacity to various governments and international organisations on intellectual property issues and formerly held a Chair in Intellectual Property at the University of London
University of London
-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...
. He is also a member of the Australian Bar.
Books
- Information Feudalism: Who Controls the Knowledge Economy? (with John Braithwaite), The New Press, 2002
- Global Intellectual Property Rights: Knowledge, Access and Development, (with Ruth Mayne), Macmillan, 2002
- Global Business Regulation, (with John Braithwaite), Cambridge University Press, 2000, received the 2004 University of Louisville Grawemeyer AwardGrawemeyer AwardThe Grawemeyer Awards are five awards given annually by the University of Louisville in the state of Kentucky, United States. The prizes are presented to individuals in the fields of education, ideas improving world order, music composition, religion, and psychology...
for Ideas Improving World Order. - A Philosophy of Intellectual Property, Dartmouth, 1996
Articles
- Time for a Treaty? 2005
- Thinking Strategically about Intellectual Property Rights 1997
- Four Lessons for Developing Countries from the Trade Negotiations over Access to Medicine 2007