Andrew 

CHRISTIE

Professor Andrew Christie is the founding Chair of Intellectual Property in the University of Melbourne Law School. He has Bachelors degrees in Science and in Laws from the University of Melbourne, an LLM with distinction from the University of London, and a prize-winning PhD from the University of Cambridge. He is an academic and professional lawyer who specialises in intellectual property law, with a particular focus on copyright law and patent law.

Professor Christie was appointed as the first Davies Collison Cave Professor of Intellectual Property in 2002. From March 2002 to June 2008 he was the founding Director of the Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia (IPRIA), a national centre for multi-disciplinary research on the law, economics and management of intellectual property

Professor Christie has received national and international recognition for his excellence in teaching. He has held visiting teaching and research appointments in intellectual property law at a number of overseas universities, including the University of Cambridge, Duke University, the University of Toronto, and the National University of Singapore.