Throughout his professional career, Robert has engaged with the law in his capacity as both solicitor and academic. As a legal practitioner his efforts have largely concentrated on the provision of legal information, court advocacy and education within the Community Legal Centre sector. In academia his pursuits have primarily focused on the manner in which the law interfaces with sustainability, corporate accountability, international trade, and intellectual property rights. He is currently engaging in a research monograph in the latter field of endeavour. Robert presently lectures in Intellectual Property: Creative Rights, and is Unit Coordinator of Corporations Law, International Trade Law and Corporate Finance & Securities Regulation within the UWA Faculty of Law.
Articles
Small Business Engagement With Sustainability in Regional Australia (with Trevor Lucas and Geoff Lamberton,), Journal of Economic and Social Policy (2010)
This research investigates the extent of social and environmental responsibility in small businesses which operate...
The Separation of (Economic) Power: A Cultural Environmental Perspective of Social Production and the Networked Public Sphere, Journal of High Technology Law (2010)
In the eighteenth century Montesquieu espoused the need to separate political power. In the twenty...
The Tragedy of (Ignoring) the Information Semicommons: A Cultural Environmental Perspective, Akron Intellectual Property Journal (2010)
The second enclosure movement critique is familiar theoretical territory for scholars concerned with the creeping...
Predicting the predicament: The World Trade Organisation and Biotechnological Agriculture Via the EC - Biotech Case, Macquarie Journal of Business Law (2006)
This paper is situated within the broad framework of World Trade Organisation jurisprudence as it...
The social ecology of information ecosystems: computer code, copyleft and the General Public License, Copyright Reporter: journal of the Copyright Society of Australia (2006)
Contributions to Books
The road of computer code: politico-economic dimensions of copyleft and legal analysis of the General Public License, Handbook of research on open source software : technological, economic, and social perspectives (2007)
This chapter examines the development of open source computer software with specific reference to the...