Legal experts

O ur access to a global network of legal experts connected by the Internet provides specialised knowledge, experience, analytical rigour, and knowledge of resources. The result is quality, speed, and economy.

Our network of more than 70 experts includes law school professors, senior law lecturers, writers of seminal textbooks, and leading practitioners. Profiles of just some of our expert members are provided below.

Sample profiles

Scott Buchanan

• specialist Intellectual Property ("IP") lawyer
• experienced in advising clients in developing and implementing effective IP commercialisation strategies and protecting and enforcing IP rights
• has valuable contract and tendering experience, especially with IP and technology-based contracts
• registered by the Australian Institute of Patent & Trade Marks Attorneys to practise as a registered Trade Marks Attorney
• formerly a senior lawyer with a large national law firm
• advises on all aspects of trade marks law and has considerable experience in managing trade mark portfolios including representing clients in Trade Mark Opposition Hearings
• acts for clients across a broad range of IP-sensitive industries including information technology, telecommunications, advertising and design agencies, software developers, and participants in the franchising sector
• regular speaker at industry association events including the Australian Graphic Design Association

For more information, visit www.buchananlaw.com.au.

Professor George Williams

• formerly the Anthony Mason Professor and Director of the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law at the University of NSW
• from 1995 to 2000, worked at the Faculty of Law and Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University (ANU)
• has held visiting positions as the Laskin Professor of Public Law at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto and at the Human Rights Institute at the Columbia University Law School in New York
• author of books including The Case for an Australian Bill of Rights: Freedom in the War on Terror (2004), Human Rights Under the Australian Constitution (1999), and Australian Constitutional Law and Theory: Commentary and Materials (with Tony Blackshield), and is an editor of The Oxford Companion to the High Court of Australia (2001)
• practises as a barrister and has appeared in High Court cases raising issues such as freedom of communication, freedom from racial discrimination, and the separation of powers
• appeared in the Court of Appeal of Fiji in Fiji v Prasad, in which the 1997 Fijian Constitution was upheld
• has worked as a consultant to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, and the Federal Parliament
• media commentator on issues including constitutional law and the High Court

Professor Bryan Horrigan

• Assistant Dean for Research at Macquarie University
• formerly Director of the Divisional Research Institute for the Division of Business, Law and Information Sciences at the University of Canberra
• research interests span select areas of business and governmental law and policy, including constitutional law, human rights law, native title, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, unfair business conduct, the decision-making of the High Court, and trade practices
• Rhodes Scholar
• completed his Doctorate in Law at Oxford University
• has worked in full-time legal practice for a national law firm
• held academic positions at the Queensland University of Technology and the University of Canberra
• regular guest on ABC Radio's evening program with James O'Loghlin, where he discusses legal issues in the news