Brian Fitzgerald

Brian Fitzgerald is a Chief Investigator and Program Leader for Law at CCI, and Project Leader for the DEST-funded Open Access to Knowledge Law Project (OAK Law) Project. He is also a Program Leader for CRC Spatial Information and a Project Leader for Creative Commons in Australia. He has organised numerous conferences on Intellectual Property and Internet Law in Australia, is a regular speaker at international and national conferences and has made a number of significant submissions to government in his areas of expertise.

Brian pioneered the teaching of Internet/ Cyber Law in Australia. He has published articles on Intellectual Property and Internet Law in Australia, the United States, Europe, Nepal, India, Canada and Japan. His latest (co-authored) books are Cyberlaw: Cases and Materials on the Internet, Digital Intellectual Property and E-Commerce (2002); Jurisdiction and the Internet (2004); Intellectual Property in Principle (2004) and Internet and Ecommerce Law (2007). Over the past seven years Brian has delivered seminars on Information Technology, Internet and Intellectual Property Law in Australia, Canada, China, Brazil, New Zealand, the USA, Nepal, India, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Norway, Croatia and the Netherlands.

From 1998-2002 Brian was Head of the School of Law and Justice at Southern Cross University in New South Wales, and from 2002–2007 Head of the School of Law at QUT in Brisbane.