Chris Dent

Biography

I am a Murdoch graduate who has returned to the fold after carrying out research for the Law Reform Commission of Western Australia and the Victorian law Reform Commission as well as working at the Melbourne Law School, for 12 years, with the Centre for Media and Communications Law and the Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia.

Research Interest

I have two broad areas of academic interest. The first relates to the operation of the intellectual property system – with a particular focus on the use of patents. The second relates to the relationship between the individual and the law – a socio-legal exploration of how we, as members of society, are regulated on a daily basis. To carry out this work, I use historical, empirical and critical approaches (usually the work of Michel Foucault) to interrogate the law we have and the law that existed before.