Senior Lecturer
Phone: (07) 3138 2558
Fax: (07) 3138 1812
Email: amanda.mcbratney@qut.edu.au
Room: 324, Level 2, B Block, Gardens Point campus
Qualifications
LLB (Bond), LLM (University of London), PhD (UQ)
Career Summary
After working in practice Amanda undertook her Master of Laws in London, returning to Australia to teach at the University of Queensland for five years. While at UQ Amanda taught Contract Law and tutored in Equity and Land Transactions. She also developed and taught new postgraduate units in Patent law, Intellectual Property in Biotechnology and Intellectual Property Transactions. She completed her doctoral thesis entitled ‘Between Scylla and Charybdis: Navigating Patent Amendment Law in Australia’ in 2003, and her PhD work on patent fair basing was cited by the Australian High Court in 2004.
Amanda later re-entered practice to consult with Brisbane law firm McCullough Robertson. She is co-author of the text Licensing Technology with Dr Noel Byrne, and is also an Adjunct Research Fellow at Queen Mary College, University of London. She was appointed to her present position by QUT in June 2009.
Teaching Interests
- Corporations Law
Research Interests
- Contract law, use of contracts in international research collaborations, streamlining contractual negotiations.
- International and comparative competition law, emerging Asia Pacific antitrust laws.
- International and comparative intellectual property law, commercialisation issues, licensing, contract drafting and formation.