Professor Christoph Antons

Position in Faculty
Professor of Comparative Law; Director, Centre for Comparative Law and Development Studies in Asia and the Pacific.

Publications on RIS

Christoph is a QEII Fellow of the Australian Research Council, Adjunct Research Fellow of the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law in Munich and Honorary Senior Fellow), Faculty of Law, University of Melbourne. He has held teaching and research positions at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law, Griffith University, La Trobe University and Charles Darwin University. He has also been a visiting research fellow or visiting lecturer at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property in Munich, the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Private Law in Hamburg, the International Institute of Asian Studies in Leiden, the Graduate School of International Development in Nagoya, the University of Surabaya, the IP Academy in Singapore, the Research and Training Institute of the Ministry of Justice in Osaka and at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane. Christoph has carried out research and consultancy work related to Japan, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand and the Philippines. He was Director of the Centre for Southeast Asian Law (CSEAL) at Charles Darwin University from 2000 to 2002 and Director of the ARC Key Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies (CAPSTRANS) at the University of Wollongong from 2003 to 2004. He is currently Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation, which is based at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane.

Degrees Held
Referendar jur. (Rhineland Palatinate), Assessor jur. (Bavaria), PhD in Law (University of Amsterdam)

Professional Activities
Christoph is a member of the Law Association for Asia and the Pacific (LAWASIA), the Asia Pacific Futures Network and the Governance Research Network of the ARC. He is also on the Editorial Board of the Australian Journal of Asian Law.

Research Interests
Christoph has written widely on comparative intellectual property law in Indonesia and ASEAN and on law and development, legal culture and legal history in various countries of Asia. Current research interests include intellectual property law in Indonesia and ASEAN, intellectual property enforcement and awareness raising in China, Thailand and Indonesia (ARC discovery project), traditional knowledge and intellectual property rights in Australia, Indonesia and the Philippines (ARC discovery/QEII project), law and social change in Asia and the legal history of East Timor, Indonesia and the Philippines.

Selected Publications

• Globalisation and Resistance: Law Reform in Asia Since the Crisis (co-editor with Volkmar Gessner), in print for publication in April 2007 by Hart Publishing in the series of the Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law
• “Introduction” (with Volkmar Gessner), in: C. Antons and V. Gessner (eds.). Globalisation and Resistance: Law Reform in Asia Since the Crisis, Oxford: Hart Publishing (in print for publication in April 2007)
• “Law Reform in the “Developmental States” of Asia – From the Asian Crisis to September 11, 2001, and Beyond”, in: C. Antons and V. Gessner (eds.), Globalisation and Resistance: Law Reform in Asia Since the Crisis, Oxford: Hart Publishing (in print for publication in April 2007)
• “Traditional knowledge, biological resources and intellectual property rights in Asia: The example of the Philippines”, in: Forum of International Development Studies Vol.34. No.3, 2007,pp.1-18.
• “Intellectual Property Law in Southeast Asia: Recent Legislative and Institutional Developments”, in: Journal of Information Law and & Technology(JILT),2006(1),Special Issue, http://go.warwick.ac.uk//jilt//2006_1/antons/
• “Courting Kazaa – Judicial Approaches Towards P2P Networks in the US and Australia”, in: Computer Law Review International, Issue 3, 15 June 2006, pp. 70-76
• “Book Review: The Role of Customary Law in Sustainable Development”, by Peter Ørebech, Fred Bosselman, Jes Bjarup, David Callies, Martin Chanock and Hanne Petersen, in: Environmental Conservation 33 (4), 2006, pp. 364-365
• "Specialised Intellectual Property Courts in Southeast Asia", in: A. Kur, S. Luginbühl and E. Waage (eds.) - "… und sie bewegt sich doch!" - Patent Law on the Move, Festschrift in Honour of Gert Kolle and Dieter Stauder, Carl Heymanns Veilag; Berlin, pp. 287-299;
• "Traditional knowledge and intellectual property rights in Australia and Southeast Asia", in: C. Heath and A. Kamperman Sanders (eds.), New Frontiers of Intellectual Property Law: IP and Cultural Heritage - Geographical Indications - Enforcement - Overprotection, Hart Publishing, Oxford 2005, pp. 37-51;
• "Folklore protection in Australia: Who is expert in Aboriginal tradition?", in: E. Kurz-Milcke and G. Gigerenzer (eds.), Experts in Science and Society, Kluwer Academic/Plenum, New York 2004, pp. 85-103;
• "Exhaustion and Parallel Imports in Indonesia" (with Cita Citrawinda Priapantja), in: C. Heath (ed.), Parallel Imports in Asia, Kluwer Law International, London 2004, pp. 101-111;
• "Legal culture and Its Impact on Regional Harmonisation", in: C. Antons, M. Blakeney and C. Heath (eds.), Intellectual Property Harmonisation Within ASEAN and APEC, Kluwer Law International, The Hague 2004, pp. 29-36;
• "Harmonisation of Intellectual Property in the EU, ASEAN and APEC - Introductory Preface" (with Michael Blakeney and Christopher Heath), in: C. Antons, M. Blakeney and C. Heath (eds.), Intellectual Property Harmonisation Within ASEAN and APEC, Kluwer Law International, The Hague 2004, pp. XV-XIX;
• "Harmonisation and Selective Adaptation as Intellectual Property Policies in Asia", in: C. Antons, M. Blakeney and C. Heath (eds.), Intellectual Property Harmonisation Within ASEAN and APEC, Kluwer Law International, The Hague 2004, pp. 109-121;
• Law and Development in East and Southeast Asia, IIAS Asian Studies Series, RoutledgeCurzon, London-New York 2003 (387 pp; reviewed in IIAS Newsletter, No. 31, p. 37);
• "Legal Culture and History of Law in Asia", in: C. Heath (ed.), Intellectual Property Law in Asia, Kluwer Law International, London 2003, pp. 13-35;
• "Indonesia", in: C. Heath (ed.), Intellectual Property Law in Asia, Kluwer Law International, London 2003, pp. 391-428;
• "Introduction", in: C. Antons (ed.), Law and Development in East and Southeast Asia, RoutledgeCurzon, London 2003, pp. 3-24;
• "Japan as a Model? Law and Development in Japan, Singapore and Indonesia", in: C. Antons (ed.), Law and Development in East and Southeast Asia, RoutledgeCurzon, London 2003, pp. 216-248;
• "Technology Transfer in Indonesia", in: C. Heath and K.C. Liu (eds.), Legal Rules of Technology Transfer in Asia, Kluwer Law International, London 2002, pp. 227-252;
• "Indonesia", in: M. Blakeney (ed.), Border Control of Intellectual Property Rights, Sweet and Maxwell, London 2001, chapter 10, pp. INDO-1-11 (Appendix pp. INDO-101-104);
• "Ethnicity, Law and Development in Southeast Asia", in: F. Hüsken and D. van der Meij (eds.), Reading Asia: New Research in Asian Studies, Curzon Press, London 2001, pp. 3-28;
• "Legal Education in Australia", in: Kansai University Review of Law and Politics, No. 22, March 2001, pp. 71-82;
• "Intellectual Property Rights and Technology Transfer in Indonesia", in: Institute of the Humanities and Social Sciences (ISSP), Academia Sinica (ed.), 2nd International Conference on European and East Asian Intellectual Property Rights: Patent, Technology Transfer and Antitrust, Taipei, Taiwan 2001, VI-1, pp. 1-32;
• "Law and Development Thinking After the Asian Crisis of 1997", in: Forum of International Development Studies, Vol. 20 No. 12, Dec. 2001, pp. 205-232;
• Intellectual Property Law in Indonesia, The Max Planck Institute's Series on Asian Intellectual Property Law, Volume 2, Kluwer Law International, The Hague-London Boston 2000 (414 pp; reviewed in IP Asia, April 2001, p. 39);
• "The Protection of Well-known Trade Marks in Indonesia", in: C. Heath and K.C. Liu (eds.), The Protection of Well-known Marks in Asia, Kluwer Law International, London 2000, pp. 199-213.

Contact Details
Phone (02)4221 4719
Fax (02)4221 3188
Email: cantons@uow.edu.au