Professor Peter Drahos is Professor of the Law Program at Australian National University.
Professor Drahos is a graduate of University of Adelaide (LL.B / BA (Hons)), South Australian Institute of Technology (Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice), University of Sydney (LL.M (Hons) and Australian National University (PhD). He is a barrister and solicitor of the South Australian Supreme Court (1980).
Professor Drahos has lectured at numerous acclaimed universities, including Queen Mary, University of London (1998-2001) and University of Adelaide (1890). He also served as Senior Legal Officer and Acting Principal Legal Officer in the Commercial and Drafting Division of the Commonwealth Attorney-General's Department (1981-1987).
His main research interests lie in International Business Regulation, Intellectual Property and Legal Philosophy.
Professor Drahos has written extensively. His most recent articles include Developing Countries and International Intellectual Property Standard-Setting (5 Journal of World Intellectual Property (2002), 765-789); Negotiating Intellectual Property Rights: Between Coercion and Dialogue (in Drahos and Mayne, eds Global Intellectual Property Rights: Knowledge Access and Development, Palgrave Macmillan, Hampshire and New York, 2002, 161-182) and Capitalism, efficiency and self-ownership: a comment on Davies and Naffine's Are Persons Property?, Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy, 2003).
He has also prepared reports for the Industry Commission in Australia, the Indian Forum of Parliamentarians on Intellectual Property and the UK Commission on Intellectual Property Rights.
Professor Drahos is General Editor of the Dartmouth Series on Globalization and Law, is a member of the Lawnet Advisory Panel for Ozemail - an ISP provider - and is on the Editorial Board of the journal Prometheus.
He is also a familiar speaker at international conferences, and his most recent include the 2002 Bellagio Series on Development and Intellectual Property Policy (Lake Como, November 2002) where he presented results of a study on developing countries' intellectual property policy leadership; and the Program on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest, (American University, Washington College of Law, October 2002) where he sat on the Panel Discussion of the Eldred v Ashcroft Case.