PhD Students
Amanda Scardamaglia is completing her PhD at the University of Melbourne under the supervision of Professor Megan Richardson and Dr Chris Dent. Her project is concerned with the historical foundations of Australian trade mark law and the implications of this for the future. Amanda is also a casual research assistant. Saba Elkman is undertaking a PhD in the Faculty of Law at the University of Melbourne. His thesis addresses the moral justifications for Intellectual Property Law. Yashar Gedik is undertaking a thesis on knowledge transfers from Public Sector research Organisations. Richard Hayes is a PhD Student at the Melbourne Business School. His research interests include the drivers of national innovation rates, the economic design of IP reward systems and applied industrial organisation studies. Emily Hudson is a PhD Student in the Faculty of Law at the University of Melbourne. Her thesis identifies lessons for Australian copyright law and practice, as it relates to public museums, galleries, libraries and archives, from the experiences of cultural institutions in the US and Canada. Her PhD forms part of a Linkage Project being conducted by IPRIA and the Centre for Media and Communications Law. Andreas Stierwald joined the Melbourne Institute in February 2006 as a PhD Student. His thesis topic is "Anti-competitive patent activity within a given patent system: The case of Australia's Industry". David Tan is a PhD student at the Melbourne Law School. His research is in the area of personality rights and perspectives on celebrity.