Dr. Peter Drahos is Solicitor and Barrister of the Supreme Court of South Australia.

Dr. Peter Drahos is the Herchel Smith Senior Research Fellow in Intellectual Property in the Intellectual Property Unit in the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, University of London. He holds degrees in law, politics, and philosophy. He has taught in the Department of Politics at the University of Adelaide and in the Law Faculty at the Australian National University. He has been a Research Fellow in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. He was an officer of the Australian Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department. He has been a consultant to numerous government departments. He has published in law and social science journals on a variety of topics including contract, legal theory, telecommunications, and intellectual property. He is the author of A Philosophy of Intellectual Property (1996) and, with John Braithwaite Global Business Regulation (1996). He has held research grants from the US National Science Foundation, the American Bar Foundation and the Australian Research Council.