Professor
Jill McKeough

Dean

BA LLB (UNSW), LLM Hons (Syd), Barrister of the Supreme Court of NSW.

Academic Profile

Professor Jill McKeough has written and taught primarily in intellectual property (copyright, designs, patents, trade marks, confidential information, biotechnology and indigenous cultural heritage) as well as torts, commercial law, legal system and legal history. Professor McKeough has extensive experience in faculty and university management roles. She is Deputy Chair of the Council of Australian Law Deans and a member of the Professional Standards Board for Patent Attorneys.

Professor McKeough is currently on the board of the Arts Law Centre of Australia and is a member of the Law Council of Australia's Intellectual Property Committee. Jill has served on the on the Copyright and Intellectual Property Committee of the Australian Vice-Chancellor's Committee, and thereafter the Standing Committee on Information Policy.

Professor McKeough was a member of the Intellectual Property & Competition Review Committee which reported to the Australian Government at the end of September 2000.

Current Research Activities

Investigator in the 'Unlocking IP' research project.

Supervising UTS:LAW  PhD students writing in the areas of IP and competition law and the Economic Analysis of Copyright Law.

Recent Publications and Conference Papers

"Horses and the Law: The Legacy of Victoria Park Racing," forthcoming in Landmark cases in Intellectual Property, Cambridge University Press, 2008

"Good Faith in Trade Mark and Domain Name Registration," forthcoming, IPSANZ Conference, September 2008, Adelaide

Intellectual Property: Commentary and Materials , 4th edition, Thomson LBC 2006 (with Professor Kathy Bowrey and Professor Philip Griffith of UTS)

Intellectual Property in Australia, 3rd edition, Lexis Nexis 2004 (with Professor Andrew Stewart of Flinders University and Professor Philip Griffith of UTS)

New Zealand Business Law Quarterly - Member Editorial Board

Various Conference Papers and Articles on Intellectual Property in Scientific Research, Competition Policy and Copyright, Patents, Mapping the Digital Commons and Sedition and Free Speech.