Professor Dan L. Burk (Cross Border Trade in Intellectual Property)
Dan Burk is the Chancellor’s Professor of Law at the University of California, Irvine, where he teaches courses in patent, copyright, and biotechnology law. An internationally prominent authority on issues of intellectual property, he is the author of numerous papers on the legal and societal impact of new technologies, including articles on scientific misconduct, on the regulation of biotechnology, and on the intellectual property implications of global computer networks. Professor Burk holds a B.S. in Microbiology (1985) from Brigham Young University, an M.S. in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry (1987) from Northwestern University, a J.D. (1990) from Arizona State University, and a J.S.M. (1994) from Stanford University. He has previously taught at the University of Minnesota, Seton Hall University, George Mason University, Cardozo Law School, University of Toronto, the University of California, Berkeley, the Ohio State University Programme at Oxford, and at the Program for Management in the Network Economy at the Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Piacenza, Italy.
Professor Edward Damich (Technical Protection of Authors' Rights)
The Honorable Edward J. Damich was appointed a judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims on October 22, 1998, by President William J. Clinton. He served as Chief Judge from 2002 - 2009. Judge Damich has an A.B. degree from St. Stephen's College, Dover, Massachusetts; a J.D. degree from Catholic University; and an L.L.M. and J.S.D. degrees from Columbia University. From 1995-98 Judge Damich served as Chief Intellectual Property Counsel for the Senate Judiciary Committee. During his tenure on the Committee, he assisted the Chairman, Senator Orrin Hatch, with the passage of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), the most significant change in copyright law since the Copyright Act of 1976. At present, Judge Damich is a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Intellectual Property at the Columbus School of Law of Catholic University. He is also an adjunct professor at the George Washington University Law School. He has been an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center and a professor of law at George Mason University and at Delaware Law School of Widener University.
Professor Rob Heverly (Internet Law)
Robert Heverly's is an Assistant Professor of Law at Albany Law School of Union University in Albany, NY. Professor Heverly's research and teaching interests span property and land use law, intellectual and property and copyright law, and cyberspace and communications law. Most recently a visiting professor of law at Michigan State University College of Law, he was previously lecturer in law and director of the LL.M. Programme in Information, Technology and Intellectual Property at the Norwich Law School of the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, and fellow with the Information Society Project at Yale Law School, where he retains an affiliation as a faculty fellow. From 1992-2001, he served as Assistant Director of Albany Law School's Government Law Center.
Professor Silke von Lewinski (IP and Indigenous Heritage)
Silke von Lewinski is head of department specializing in international and European copyright law, at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law in Munich. Dr. v. Lewinski has been an expert consulting the European Commission in a number of important cases, and has been the chief legal expert consulting the governments of Eastern and Central European and former Soviet Union countries on their copyright legislation in the framework of the PHARE-program, the TACIS-program, and subsequent European Commission programs. Her numerous publications and lectures have focused on topics related to copyright law, primarily international and European copyright law as well as problems of new technologies; most recently, she edited the book "Indigenous Heritage and Intellectual Property: Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore" (London, 2004). Dr. v. Lewinski is adjunct professor at Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, and at the Franklin Pierce Law Center, and visiting professor at University of Toulouse. Since 2003, she has been on the faculty of the MIPLC. She has been a visiting professor at numerous institutions. Dr. v. Lewinski received her university degree in law from the Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, took her Bar Exam in Munich, and obtained her degree of Doctor iuris (Ph.D.) at Free University Berlin.
Professor Michael Madison (Theoretical Foundations of Intellectual Property)
Michael Madison is Associate Professor of Law at University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where he teaches courses in copyright law, trademark law, foundations of intellectual property, and contracts. He has written widely in copyright and internet law and related areas. Before joining the Pittsburgh faculty in 1998, Professor Madison was a Climenko Fellow at Harvard Law School, and practiced law at Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich in Palo Alto and at Shartsis, Friese & Ginsburg in San Francisco. He received his J.D. with distinction from Stanford Law School and his B.A. magna cum laude from Yale University.
Professor Gregory Maggs (Law of Software Contracts)
Gregory Maggs joined the George Washington University Law School faculty in 1993. He served as Senior Associate Dean for academic affairs from 2008-2010 and as Interim Dean from 2010-2011. He teaches mainly in the areas of commercial law, constitutional law, contracts, and counter-terrorism law, and he has written extensively on these subjects. He received the Distinguished Faculty Service Award in 1997, 1998, 2004, 2005, and 2011 by vote of the classes graduating in these years. Professor Maggs is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School. Following law school, he was a law clerk for Justices Clarence Thomas and Anthony M. Kennedy of the U.S. Supreme Court and for the late Judge Joseph T. Sneed of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He also taught for two years as an assistant professor at the University of Texas School of Law. Professor Maggs's other past experience includes service as a special master for the U.S. Supreme Court, as a consultant to Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr in the Whitewater Investigation, and as an assistant to Robert H. Bork in private practice and research. He is a member of the Advisory Board for the Heritage Foundation's Center for Legal and Judicial Studies and a member of the American Law Institute. Professor Maggs has been an officer in the U.S. Army Reserve since 1990, and is currently a reserve judge on the U.S. Army Court of Criminal Appeals.
Professor Randall R. Rader (The Federal Circuit)
The Honorable Randall R. Rader was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit by President George H. W. Bush in 1990 and assumed the duties of Chief Circuit Judge on June 1, 2010. He was appointed to the United States Claims Court (now the U. S. Court of Federal Claims) by President Ronald W. Reagan in 1988. As a professor, he has taught courses on patent law and other advanced intellectual property courses at The George Washington University Law School, University of Virginia School of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center, and other university programs in Tokyo, Taipei, New Delhi, and Beijing. Chief Judge Rader has also co-authored several texts including the most widely used textbook on U. S. patent law, “Cases and Materials on Patent Law,” (St. Paul, Minn.: Thomson/West 3d ed. 2009) and “Patent Law in a Nutshell,” (St. Paul, Minn.: Thomson/West 2007) (translated into Chinese and Japanese). Before appointment to the Court of Federal Claims, Chief Judge Rader served as Minority and Majority Chief Counsel to Subcommittees of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary. From 1975 to 1980, he served as Counsel in the House of Representatives for representatives serving on the Interior, Appropriations, and Ways and Means Committees. He received a B.A. in English from Brigham Young University in 1974 and a J.D. from The George Washington University Law School in 1978.
Professor Sarah Rajec (TRIPS, Patents, and Public Health)
Sarah Rajec is the Frank H. Marks Visiting Associate Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School. She holds a B.S. in physics from Brown University and a J.D. from the University of Michigan. Professor Rajec returned to the Law School as a Visiting Associate Professor of Law in 2011. Her primary research interests are in the areas of patent law, international trade law, and the intersection of the two fields. She has previously taught "TRIPS, Patents and Public Health" at GW Law's Munich IP Summer Program, and also teaches torts. Professor Rajec served as a law clerk to the Honorable Donald C. Pogue of the U.S. Court of International Trade and to the Honorable Alan D. Lourie of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. She also practiced patent law at Fish & Richardson, PC in Boston.
Professor John Whealan (The Federal Circuit)
John Whealan is Associate Dean for Intellectual Property Law Studies and Professorial Lecturer in Law at the George Washington University Law School. Before joining GW Law School in 2008, Dean Whealan worked at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) where he served as deputy general counsel for intellectual property law and solicitor since 2001. Dean Whealan represented the USPTO in all intellectual property litigation in federal court and advised the agency on a variety of policy issues. During his tenure, he argued approximately 30 cases before the Federal Circuit and, with his staff, was responsible for briefing and arguing more than 250 cases. Dean Whealan also assisted the U.S. Solicitor General on virtually every intellectual property case that has been heard by the Supreme Court since 2001. He also served as counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary for the last year. Prior to 2001, Dean Whealan was a staff attorney for the U.S. International Trade Commission where he litigated several investigations involving intellectual property matters. He has clerked at both the appellate and trial court levels, serving as law clerk to Judge Randall R. Rader, J.D. '78, of the Federal Circuit and Judge James T. Turner of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. Dean Whealan has engaged in private practice at Fish & Neave in New York and worked as a design engineer for General Electric. For the past 10 years, he has taught as an adjunct professor of law at The Franklin Pierce Law Center and also has taught courses at George Mason University School of Law and Chicago-Kent College of Law.