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Dr Janet Hope holds first class honours degrees in law and biochemistry/molecular biology from the Australian National University. Completing her undergraduate studies in 1995, she worked at a number of part-time university teaching positions before accepting a Commonwealth Attorney-General's Legal Cadetship and qualifying as a legal practitioner. Admitted to practise as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory and the High Court of Australia in January 1997, Janet worked for two years in the Office of General Counsel at the Australian Government Solicitor advising on a range of public law matters. Following a stint at the University of Auckland, where she studied the law, history and politics of genetic engineering regulation in New Zealand, Janet returned to Australia to undertake doctoral research on the feasibility of applying open source licensing and development models in biotechnology. Her thesis was supervised by intellectual property lawyer and RegNet Professor Peter Drahos. From May 2005 Janet was first-named Chief Investigator on a three year Australian Research Council grant and postdoctoral fellowship investigating the application of collaborative models of intellectual property management in the Australian biotechnology industry. She received her PhD in Law from the Australian National University in July 2005. Her first book, "BioBazaar: The Open Source Revolution and Biotechnology", was published by Harvard University Press in January 2008.