Dr Angela Adrian BBA, MIM, JD, LLM, PhD Angela Adrian started her career in business after acquiring a Masters degree from Schiller International University in London. After working for a number of years, she decided to focus on law. She received her Juris Doctorate from Loyola University, New Orleans. She then became a qualified attorney in Louisiana. After practicing for a few years, she specialized in Commercial Law and gained an LLM with distinction from the University of Aberdeen. Concurrently, she became a solicitor in England and Wales. Dr. Adrian practiced for a while before becoming an academic. She then pursued a PhD in which she explored the nature of law in virtual worlds which was published a monograph entitled “Law and Order in Virtual Worlds: Exploring Avatars, their Ownership and Rights”. Currently, Dr. Adrian is Director of Research at Southern Cross University where she teaches Intellectual Property Law, Information Technology Law, Entertainment Law, Commercial Law, Criminal Process and Finance Law. Her research interests are intellectual property, virtual reality, money laundering, internet law, privacy, commercial law, international trade law, oil and gas law, and entertainment law. She is the Editor of the International Journal of Intellectual Property Management and will be co-authoring the 4th edition of “Intellectual Property: Text and Essential Cases”.
Journal articles
Beyond griefing: virtual crime, Computer Law & Security Review (2010)
Because there is so much money involved in virtual worlds these days, there has been...
Mischief & grief: virtual torts or real problems?, International Journal of Private Law (2010)
Perhaps more than any other branch of the law, tort has been the battleground of...
Wikitopia: balancing intellectual property rights within open source research databases (with Patrick Kierkegaard), Computer Law & Security Review (2010)
Wiki “communities” based on the open access ideology allow any visitor to easily add, remove...
Civil society in Second Life, International Review of Law, Computers & Technology (2009)
The original premise of Second Life was that people really could have a second life....
Intellectual property or intangible chattel? (2009), International Journal of Intercultural Information Management (2009)
Currently, virtual property is governed under a system where initial rights are allocated to traditional...
Books
Intellectual property: text and essential cases (with Rocque Reynolds, Natalie Stoianoff, and Alpana Roy), School of Law and Justice (2012)
Intellectual Property: Text and Essential Cases continues to provide a comprehensive, up-to-date legal analysis of...
Law and order in virtual worlds: exploring avatars, their ownership and rights, School of Law and Justice (2010)
As virtual worlds increase in their depth and number, evolving into virtual communities with separate...
Book chapters
Could a small town in Romania bring Australia to its cyber-knees? Not since they accede to the EU convention on cybercrime, Law across nations: governance, policy and statute (2011)