Lucy Cradduck
Solicitor, Queensland Law Society Approved Mediator
LLB Qld.UT, LLM(TechLaw) Qld.UT, ANZIIF (Dip)
Position: Lecturer, Business Law
Office: K1.24
Tel: +61 7 5459 4493
Email: cradduck@usc.edu.au
Teaching areas
- Business Law and Ethics (Undergraduate)
- International Business Law and Ethics (Postgraduate)
Research areas
- Technology law
- Digital rights management
- Intellectual property law
- Moral rights
- Privacy law
- Patent law
- Competition law
Profile
Lucy Cradduck was admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of Queensland in 1994 after undertaking a 5-year Articles of Clerkship. Since then she has worked as a solicitor in private practice, both on the Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast, and most recently in an in-house capacity with various Queensland Government departments in Brisbane.
Lucy is currently undertaking doctoral research in the area of digital rights management in relation to the overlap and conflict between copyright law and competition law. Lucy's other areas of research interest include intellectual property law, moral rights and privacy.
In March 2008 Lucy attended the Oxford Round Table on 'The Regulation of Cyberspace: Balancing the Interests' as one of a select invited few. Lucy’s presentation to the Round Table was relevant to her PhD research and was entitled 'Synopolies: the use of cryptographic technologies to impede competition in multiple jurisdictions'.
In addition to her work and academic interests, Lucy is involved in Sunshine Coast community life, which includes acting as a member of St Andrew's Anglican College Peregian Springs College Council, and as an executive committee member of the Buderim War Memorial Community Association (BWMCA). Lucy also acts as honorary solicitor for various groups including the BWMCA and the Northern Australia Regional Performing Arts Centres Association Inc.
Publications
Electronic copies of various academic papers from Lucy Cradduck are available on the USC Coast Research Database website.
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McNamara J, Cradduck L. 2008. Can we protect how we do what we do? A consideration of Business Method Patents in Australia and Europe, Oxford International Journal of Law and Information Technology, 2008 16:1, 96-124, doi:10.1093/ijlit/eam010 <http://ijlit.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/16/1/96>
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Cradduck L, McCullagh A. 2007. Identifying the identity thief: Is it time for a (smart) Australia card?, Oxford International Journal of Law and Information Technology Advance Access published online on September 28, doi:10.1093/ijlit/eam008 <http://ijlit.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/eam008v1>
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Cradduck L, McCullagh A. 2005. Designing copyright TPM: A mutant digital copyright, Oxford International Journal of Law and Information Technology, 13:2,155-187
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