Dr Alpana Roy

Lecturer

BA (Soc Sci) (UTS), LLB (Hons) (Syd), MA (Journalism) (UTS), DipLegPrac (College of Law), PhD (Syd), Barrister of the Supreme Court of NSW and the High Court of Australia

Academic Profile

Alpana Roy joined the UTS Law Faculty in 2006 with considerable teaching and research experience. Immediately prior to joining UTS, Alpana was employed as a Lecturer at the Faculty of Law in the University of Sydney for a number of years. She is a graduate in Law from the University of Sydney, and has completed her doctorate in intellectual property law from that university. She also has a Masters degree in journalism from UTS.

Alpana has worked as a solicitor for a number of years in both the private and public spheres, and has practiced as a lawyer internationally. In Sydney, she has practiced as a solicitor for two large corporate law firms, and has also been employed as a government lawyer.

In 2001, she was selected by the Federal Government to advise the Attorney-General of Vanuatu on a range of legal matters as part of Australia's Legal Sector Strengthening Aid Program.

Alpana is currently an academic contributor to the Halsbury's Laws of Australia, CCH Australia, and the Oxford Australian Legal Dictionary.

Research Profile

Books

(as co-author) 'Intellectual Property: In Principle', Lawbook, Sydney (forthcoming 2009)

Articles in Refereed Journals

(2008) 'Recent developments in Law Reform and Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property in Australia', European Intellectual Property Review (forthcoming).

(2008) 'Intellectual Property Rights: A Postcolonial View", Asia Pacific Law Review (forthcoming)

(2008) 'Postcolonial Theory and Law: A Critical Introduction', Adelaide Law Review (forthcoming).

(2008) 'A New Dispute Concerning the TRIPS Agreement: the US and China in the WTO', Media and Arts Law Review. (forthcoming)

(2007) 'A New Dispute Concerning the TRIPS Agreement: The United States and China in the WTO', 10(6) Journal of World Intellectual Property Rights 476.

Review Essays

(2005) 'Erotic Justice: Law and the New Politics of Postcolonialism by Ratna Kapur', 27(3) Sydney Law Review 589.

Theses

(2006) 'A Postcolonial Analysis of Intellectual Property Law' (PhD (Law), University of Sydney).

(1999) 'The Globalisation of Indian Television' (MA (Journalism), University of Technology, Sydney).

Conference presentations/invited papers (selected)

(2008) 'Recent developments in Law Reform and Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property in Australia', Fedral Court of Australia's Research Directorate's Lunchtime Seminar Series, Fedral Court of Australia, Sydney, 11 June 2008

(2007) 'Postcolonial Theory and Intellectual Property Law', Law Research Seminar Series (Faculty of Law), University of Technology, Sydney, 15 May 2007.

(2004) 'Aspects of Australian Intellectual Property Law', Research Institute for Asia and the Pacific, Sydney, 23 September 2004.

(2004) 'A Postcolonial Analysis of Intellectual Property Law', Legal Research III Conference, University of Sydney, 8 November 2004.

(2004) 'Deconstructing the Law: a Postcolonial Perspective', Intersections (the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence lecture series), University of Sydney, 7 October 2004.

(2004) 'Postcolonial Theory and Intellectual Property Law', Staff Lunchtime Seminar Series (Faculty of Law), University of Sydney, 30 September 2004.

(2004) 'The Globalisation of Intellectual Property: Colonial Structures, Postcolonial Times', Postgraduate Law Conference, University of Sydney, 31 October 2003.

(2002) 'Postcolonial Theory and the Law', Postgraduate Law Conference, University of Sydney, 6 December 2002.