Alpana Roy is a New Zealand legal academic, and is a full professor of law at the University of Waikato, specializing in the law on intellectual property and information technology, and alternative dispute resolution, including online dispute resolution.
[2] Roy completed a PhD titled A postcolonial analysis of intellectual property law at the University of Sydney in 2006.
[2] Roy joined the faculty of the University of Waikato in 2020, being appointed as a full professor and Dean of the Law School.
[5] Roy's research focuses on intellectual property and information technology, covering such areas as the law around domain names, Indigenous and traditional knowledge, and dispute resolution mechanisms.
[1][4] Roy's book on Australian domain name law, published in 2016, has been described as "the international authority in the area because it is the first authoritative study anywhere in the world to critically examine Australian domain name law.