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Personal profile
Biography
Chris Arup is a professor adjunct to the Department of Business Law and Taxation.
Chris' legal research has been concerned with innovation, trade and labour. His work endeavours to be inter-disciplinary and he has long-term experience in regulatory studies and socio-legal studies. Chris has experience designing, evaluating, mentoring and editing research, including law, law and economy, and law and society research.
Recent research investigated supermarket supply networks - both as a source of private regulation and a subject of public regulation. Studies were made of food work, food production and food distribution. Other ARC projects researched: (a) the regulation of carbon reduction credits and offsets internationally and (b) the regulation of employment restraints of trade in Australia.
Most recently, Chris has been researching how labour law is made, particularly with concern to employment and social security. He also continues to research trade agreements, patent laws and access to medicines.
His publications include two monographs with Cambridge University Press, Innovation, Policy and Law (1993) and The World Trade Organization Knowledge Agreements (2000, 2008) (TRIPS and GATS). He has co-edited several books, including Intellectual Property Policy Reform: Fostering Innovation and Development; Labour Law and Labour Market Regulation; and Competition Policy with Legal Form. Chris was co-founder and co-editor (1977-2017) of the Cambridge University Press international monograph series, Studies in Law and Society. He was an editor of the La Trobe journal Law in Context.
Chris has had visiting appointments at the Universities of Chicago, Durham, Melbourne, Onati, Sussex and Warwick. He has undertaken consultancy and project work for such organisations as the Brotherhood of St. Laurence, the Commonwealth Attorney-General's Department, the New South Wales Professional Standards Council, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, the Victorian Auditor-General, and the Victorian WorkCover and WorkCare agencies. He is qualified to practise law and he has worked in community legal services and community legal education.
Chris has served as head of the law and legal studies schools at La Trobe and Victoria and the department of business law and taxation at Monash. In his time, he has taught contract, civil procedure, commercial law, intellectual property, labour law, legal writing, professional conduct, research methods, trade law and tort law. He has organised various academic and professional conferences in Australia, China and the United States.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
Law and legal studies, PhD, Griffith University
Award Date: 1 Jul 2004
Research area keywords
- Intellectual Property
- International Trade Law
- Regulatory Studies
- Socio-Legal Studies
- Labour Law
Network
Projects
- 5 Finished
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Regulating Australia's retail grocery sector - goals, actors and techniques
Arup, C., Beaton-Wells, C., Dixon, J. & Merrett, D.
Australian Research Council (ARC)
1/01/15 → 31/12/18
Project: Research
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Carbon Offsets: Regulation for Success
Arup, C., Gilligan, G. & Latimer, P.
Australian Research Council (ARC), Monash University, University of New South Wales (UNSW)
3/01/12 → 31/12/16
Project: Research
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Nothing can be created out of nothing: workers, their know-how and the employment relationships that support them
Arup, C., Dent, C., Fenwick, C. & van Caenegem, W.
Australian Research Council (ARC)
2/01/09 → 31/12/11
Project: Research
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Patents and other conditions of access to vaccines
Arup, C. & Plahe, J., Mar 2023, In: Journal of World Intellectual Property. 26, 1, p. 41-62 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Pharmaceutical patent laws in South East Asian countries
Arup, C., 2023, Intellectual Property Law in South East Asia. Antons, C. & Blakeney, M. (eds.). 1st ed. Cheltenham UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, p. 378-410 33 p. (Intellectual Property and Global Development).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Other › peer-review
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Liberty or protection? Making law for employment and social security
Arup, C., 2022, In: Griffith Law Review. 31, 3, p. 361-396 36 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Income support in a time of contagion
O'Donnell, A. & Arup, C., 2021, In: Australian Journal of Labour Law. 34, 1, p. 43-59 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Other › peer-review
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Labour law liberalisation and regulatory arbitrage
Arup, C., 2020, In: Australian Journal of Labour Law. 33, 2, p. 183-208 26 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review