Overview
Background
Brad Sherman is a Professor of Law at The University of Queensland. Professor Sherman's previous academic positions include posts at Griffith University, the London School of Economics, and the University of Cambridge. His research expertise encompasses many aspects of intellectual property law, with a particular emphasis on its historical, doctrinal and conceptual development. In 2015 Professor Sherman was awarded a highly prestigious Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship. His laureate project Harnessing Intellectual Property to Build Food Security looks at the role of intellectual property in relation to food security. The research will help to maximise the benefits while minimising the costs of using IP protection to improve agricultural productivity and food security in Australia and the Asia Pacific.
Availability
- Professor Brad Sherman is:
- Available for supervision
Fields of research
Research interests
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Intellectual Property
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Food Security
Works
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1996
Journal Article
Remembering and Forgetting: The birth of modern copyright law
Brad Sherman (1996). Remembering and Forgetting: The birth of modern copyright law. Intellectual Property Journal, 10
Funding
Current funding
Supervision
Availability
- Professor Brad Sherman is:
- Available for supervision
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
SEPs in Biotechnology Spectrum
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Allison Fish
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Doctor Philosophy
The repatriation of plant products: what should be repatriated and how?
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Allison Fish
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Doctor Philosophy
The repatriation of plant products: what should be repatriated and how?
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Allison Fish
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Doctor Philosophy
Protection, access, and benefit sharing of Australian Indigenous Knowledge: Proposing a dynamic framework model
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Allison Fish
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Doctor Philosophy
Using marks and designations to build and sustain local food and agriculture
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Yasmina Sultanbawa, Associate Professor Allison Fish
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Doctor Philosophy
Using marks and designations to build and sustain local food and agriculture
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Yasmina Sultanbawa, Associate Professor Allison Fish
Completed supervision
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2024
Doctor Philosophy
Last, the Plant: Governing Cotton in British Colonial India, 1850-1942
Principal Advisor
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2023
Doctor Philosophy
The Role of the law in the circulation of the Kakadu plum (Terminalia ferdinandiana)
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Allison Fish
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2022
Doctor Philosophy
Abstracting Plants: Legal and Scientific Judgement in Australia's Plant Breeder's Rights System
Principal Advisor
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2022
Doctor Philosophy
Intellectual Property and Peanuts in the United States, 1896-1955
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2019
Doctor Philosophy
Experimenting with the Governance of Plants as Intellectual Property: Limitations, Possibilities, and the Ecuadorian Experience
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2007
Doctor Philosophy
SUI GENERIS PROTECTION OF TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF THE AMAZON
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Jennifer Corrin
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2024
Doctor Philosophy
Accommodating Artificial Intelligence-generated Works in Indonesian Copyright Law: Challenges and Possibilities
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Allison Fish
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