Rate My Professor Kathryn Bowrey

Professor Kathy Bowrey is a Professor in the Faculty of Law and Justice at the University of New South Wales. She holds a Doctor of Juridical Studies from the University of Sydney (1994), with a dissertation titled 'Don't Fence Me In. The Many Histories of Copyright,' and a BA LLB from Macquarie University (1988). She was admitted as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of NSW in 1989. Her research focuses on intellectual property, examining the political, cultural, and social contexts of legal power that affect the culture industries and higher education, informed by media and technology history.

Professor Bowrey is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (FASSA). She has led Australian Research Council Discovery Projects, including 'Artists and Generative AI: Copyright and the Private Regulation of Creativity' (2026–2029) and 'Producing, Managing and Owning Knowledge in the 21st Century University' (2020–2024). She is a foundation member and former Co-Director (2019–2023) of the International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property. Her authored and co-authored books include Copyright, Creativity, Big Media and Cultural Value: Incorporating the Author (Routledge, 2020), which won the 2022 ANZLHS Book Prize, and Adventures in Childhood: Intellectual Property, Imagination and the Business of Play (Cambridge University Press, 2022). She has served on the Australian Research Council College of Experts (2018–2021) and held visiting scholar and research fellow positions at institutions including the State Library of NSW and the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences.