Weatheroll, Kimberly

Weatheroll studied at Oxford and Yale , then worked at King & Wood Mallesons Law Firm in Sydney , and later became a professor at the Law School of the University of Melbourne . She is also a Deputy Director of the Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia and a member of the Australian Digital Alliance . She is currently an assistant professor of law school at the University of Sydney . In 2007, at linux.conf.au, she was awarded the third annual Rusty Key award for services to the free software community.

Her Weatherall's Law blog is one of the few sources to describe intellectual property in Australia in a form that is accessible to non-lawyers. It provides a detailed analysis of a number of legal aspects specific to Australia, including precedents, legislation and its reviews. Starting in mid-2002, the blog was particularly active in discussing the chapter on intellectual property of the free trade agreement between Australia and the United States .

January 10, 2007 Weatherall announced that it would stop posting blog posts. She continued to blog on LawFont's intellectual property law .

Weatheroll was referred to by the Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs in a report on the necessary exceptions for technological protection measures ^[1] . Her article on the Sony v. Stevens case (Australia's anti-circumvention case) was cited twice in a final decision ^[2] .

• Bowrey, K., Handler, M., Nicol, D., Weatherall, K. (2015). Australian Intellectual Property: Commentary, Law and Practice - Second Edition. Australia: Oxford University Press.

• Weatherall's Law Blog
• Profile on Sydney University website