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Researcher profile and contact information
May 2007Dr Janet Hope is a qualified biochemist and molecular biologist and former practising lawyer who has published in constitutional, criminal, administrative, environmental, human rights and intellectual property law. She currently holds an Australian Research Council post-doctoral fellowship at the Centre for Governance of Knowledge and Development, Regulatory Institutions Network, Australian National University.
After completing undergraduate degrees with first class honours in science and law at the Australian National University, Dr Hope held several casual university teaching positions before qualifying as a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of Australia in January 1997. For two years, she worked for the Australian Commonwealth Government's Chief General Counsel, preparing complex written advice on constitutional and other public law issues including immigration, defence, employment and industrial relations, competition, human rights and communications law.
In 1999 and 2000 Dr Hope worked at the University of Auckland, New Zealand as a volunteer advocate and mediator and a honorary research fellow in the Department of Physics and Theoretical Physics. During this time, she provided consultancy services to NGOs engaged in public deliberations concerning the commercial release of genetically modified organisms. She subsequently wrote the first scholarly history of biotechnology regulation in New Zealand.
In January 2003 Dr Hope published a substantial web treatise on open source biotechnology, which has been reviewed in several publications including The Economist. Under the supervision of Professor Peter Drahos, she completed her doctoral dissertation in law at the Australian National University in 2004.
Together with colleagues Dianne Nicol of the Univeristy of Tasmania Law School and John Braithwaite of the ANU's Regulatory Institutions Network, Dr Hope is the recipient of an Australian Research Council grant to investigate collaborative intellectual property mechanisms in the Australian biotechnology industry. She is the author of a book, Biobazaar: The Open Source Revolution and Biotechnology, to be published in 2008 by Harvard University Press.
Name: Janet Hope
Qualifications: BSc (Hons), LLB (Hons), Grad. Dip. Leg. Prac., PhD (all from the Australian National University), Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory and of the High Court of Australia (admitted January 1997).
Current position: ARC Post-doctoral Research Fellow
Current address:
Centre for Governance of Knowledge and Development
Regulatory Institutions Network
Australian National University
Canberra 0200
Australian
Capital Territory
AUSTRALIA
Email: janet.hope@anu.edu.au
Telephone: + 61 2 6125 0172
(Standard time = GMT + 10
hours)
Facsimile: + 61 2 6125 4933