Professor Amanda Scardamaglia completed her PhD, LLB (Hons) and BA at The University of Melbourne and is admitted to practice as an Australian Legal Practitioner in the Supreme Court of Victoria. She is also a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Her area of research is intellectual property law with a special focus on empirical and historical studies in trade mark law, branding and advertising. Amanda was a State Library of Victoria Creative Fellow in 2015-2016 and was awarded a residential fellowship at the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy & Management at Bournemouth University in 2017. She is author of the book Colonial Australian Trade Mark Law (Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2015). Her second book, Printed on Stone: The Lithographs of Charles Troedel (Melbourne Books, 2020) was awarded the Victorian Premier's History Award in 2020. Her third book Strike! is due for publication in 2026 by Cambridge University Press. Amanda was the Dean of Swinburne Law School from 2022-2025 and is currently the Chair of Academic Senate at Swinburne University.