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ABOUT

ABOUT

Dr Alpana Roy is a legal academic and practitioner, and an accredited mediator. She is an expert in intellectual property (IP) and information technology (IT) law, with a particular focus on trade marks, domain names and internet law, e-commerce law, and copyright. Alpana has several years of experience in IP and commercial law – in both practice and the academy. She has lectured in a wide range of postgraduate and undergraduate IP, commercial law, and dispute resolution subjects at various universities, including the University of Sydney, the University of Queensland, the University of Technology Sydney, and the University of Waikato (NZ) where she is currently Dean and Professor in the Faculty of Law. Alpana is widely published and a commissioned author for several major legal publishers including Thomson Reuters, Federation Press, LexisNexis, Oxford University Press, and CCH. She is also regularly invited to speak at international and national seminars on a broad range of legal topics.

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Alpana was admitted to practice in NSW in 1999, and is on the Roll of Legal Practitioners for the High Court of Australia. She has wide-ranging experience in both contentious and non-contentious general commercial and IP matters, and has been involved in a number of leading cases in the Federal Court of Australia. She has worked for top-tier corporate law firms (Clayton Utz, and King & Wood Mallesons), boutique specialist firms, and various private and public sector organisations. Alpana has practised both as a solicitor and a barrister (at the Sydney Bar), and has also worked as a lawyer internationally.

 

Alpana has also worked as a mediator since 2009. She is nationally accredited under the National Mediator Accreditation System (NMAS), and is accredited with the Law Society of NSW. Alpana has been appointed to the following panels: District Court of NSW Mediators Panel; NSW Law Society Mediators Panel; Family Law Settlement Service (FLSS) Panel. She has mediated a wide-range of disputes in various legal fields, including IP, commercial law (including franchise disputes), family law, elder law, property law (including tenancy disputes), consumer law, competition law, civil law, administrative law, immigration law, employment law, discrimination law, criminal law (including Apprehended Violence Orders).

 

Alpana speaks English as well as Hindi and Bengali.

 

For further information please see Alpana’s LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-alpana-roy-a1690916/

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For further information on Alpana’s academic background please see her university profile: 

https://www.waikato.ac.nz/staff-profiles/people/aroy

QUALIFICATIONS
QUALIFICATIONS

Dr Alpana Roy is a solicitor (admitted to practice in NSW, and is on the Roll of Legal Practitioners for the High Court of Australia), nationally accredited mediator (NMAS), and an Associate Professor of Law.

 

Educational Qualifications:

  • PhD (Law), University of Sydney, Australia

  • LLB (Hons), University of Sydney, Australia

  • MA (Journalism), University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

  • BA (High Distinction average), University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

                        

Professional Qualifications:

  • Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice, College of Law, Australia

  • Bar Practice Course, New South Wales Bar Association, Australia

  • Practitioner’s Certificate in Mediation, The Institute of Arbitrators & Mediators Australia (now known as the Resolution Institute, Australia)

  • Graduate Certificate in Higher Education Teaching and Learning, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

 

Professional Memberships: 

  • Law Society of New South Wales

  • Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand (IPSANZ)

  • International Trademark Association (INTA)

  • Copyright Society of Australia (CSA)

  • Internet Society of Australia.

  • .au Domain Administration Ltd (auDA)

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