PhD. Cambridge University (UK) LL.M. Cambridge University (UK) Licenses in Law, Leuven University (KUL),(Belgium) Candidature in Law, Antwerp University (UFSIA), (Belgium) William Van Caenegem is interested in comparative and international law, intellectual property law, evidence and comparative criminal procedure. He has been a stipendiary researcher at the Max-Planck Institute for Comparative Intellectual Property Law in Munich, FRG. He held the inaugural CAL/ANU Copyright Fellowship during 1995, and was a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Commercial and Property Law at QUT. He has been a consultant for the WA Law Reform Commission in the area of comparative criminal procedure, and has also undertaken work in this area for AUSAID in Cambodia. He has published in the areas of foreign law, intellectual property law, legal philosophy and criminal procedure. He is a past Vice-President of the Australian Society for Legal Philosophy. He is a Barrister-at-Law of the Supreme Court of Queensland.
Articles
Case Note - Inventiveness in Lockwood No 2, Bond Law Review (2008)
The High Court entertained three appeals concerned with inventiveness after 2000: Firebelt Pty Ltd v...
New trends in illegal evidence in criminal procedure: general report - common law, Law papers (2007)
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The general principle in common law jurisdictions is that relevant evidence is admissible, unless...
Intellectual property cases before the high court 2000 - 2007, Law papers (2007)
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This short note provides some statistical background facts relating to the record of the High...
Inter-firm migration of tacit knowledge: law and policy, Law papers (2005)
Much knowledge is diffused by the exchange of property rights in intangibles. But tacit knowledge,...
Registered GI's: Intellectual property, agricultural policy and international trade, Law papers (2004)
This article discusses the European proposals to the World Trade Organisation to improve the worldwide...
Books
Intellectual property, Law papers (2006)
This book takes a selective approach to a vast subject area. It addresses the major...
Intellectual property law in Australia, Law papers (1997)
The International Encyclopaedia of Laws is a unique series of looseleaf publications comprised of 25...