Sam 

RICKETSON

Professor Sam Ricketson is a Professor Emeritus of Law in the Melbourne Law School who has written widely and taught in all areas of IP law. He also practised part-time at the Victorian Bar until mid-2015, principally in intellectual property, and retired as a professor of law at the Melbourne Law School at the end of April 2019.

Professor Ricketson holds degrees from the Universities of Melbourne and London, and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and of the Australian Academy of Law.

Prior to his appointment to the University of Melbourne in November 2000, Professor Ricketson was the Sir Keith Aickin Professor of Commercial Law at Monash University. Before this, he had held positions at the University of Melbourne (1977 to 1991) and in the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary & Westfield College, London (1984-1986).