Professor Margo Bagley (International Patent Law) is Professor of Law and Class of 1941 Research Professor at the University of Virginia, where she teaches courses on patent law, international and comparative patent law, intellectual property, fundamentals of innovation, and contracts. After receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering in 1986 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Bagley worked in products research and development with the Procter & Gamble Company. Later, she worked as a senior research analyst for the Coca-Cola Company. Bagley received her J.D. in 1996 from Emory. She is a member of the Georgia bar and is licensed to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Bagley worked as an associate with Smith, Gambrell & Russell and Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner before becoming an assistant professor of law at Emory University in 1999. She was a visiting professor of law at Washington & Lee University School of Law in fall 2001 and at the University of Virginia School of Law in fall 2005. She has also taught international patent law and policy courses in Germany, China, and Singapore. She joined the University of Virginia faculty in 2006.


Professor Robert Brauneis (Cross-Border Trade in Intellectual Property) is an Associate Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Intellectual Property Law Program at the George Washington University Law School, where he teaches classes in copyright, trademark, and property law.  Professor Brauneis is also a Member of the Managing Board of the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center, and Director of the GW Law Munich IP Summer Program.  After receiving his J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, Professor Brauneis served as a law clerk to Judge Stephen G. Breyer of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit (now Justice Breyer), and to Justice David H. Souter. He has also served as an assistant corporation counsel for the city of Chicago. His articles have appeared in such journals as the Yale Law Journal, the Vanderbilt Law Review, and the Georgetown Law Journal.

Professor Dan L. Burk (Technical Protection of Authors' Rights) is the Oppenheimer, Wolff, and Donnelly Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota, where he teaches courses in Patent, Copyright, and Biotechnology Law. An internationally prominent authority on issues 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 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 Michael W. Carroll (Internet Law I) is Associate Professor of Law at Villanova University School of Law, where he teaches courses in intellectual property law, Internet law, and contract law. He also serves on the Board of Directors of Creative Commons, Inc., a non-profit organization dedicated to facilitating legal, royalty-free sharing of copyrighted materials over the Internet. Before joining the faculty in 2001, Professor Carroll was an associate at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington, D.C., where he practiced in intellectual property and e-commerce law. Professor Carroll has served as a law clerk to Judge Joyce Hens Green of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and Judge Judith W. Rogers of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Professor Carroll received his A.B. with general honors from the University of Chicago and his J.D. magna cum laude from the Georgetown University Law Center.

Professor Margaret Chon (International Copyright Law) is the Donald and Lynda Horowitz Professor for the Pursuit of Justice at Seattle University School of Law, where she teaches in the fields of intellectual property law, technology, critical theory and procedure.  Before joining the Seattle University law school faculty in 1996, she was a tenured member of the Syracuse University College of Law faculty. Since then, she has visited at a number of different law schools in the United States and abroad. From 2006-08, she directed the Center for the Study of Justice in Society at Seattle University.  Professor Chon is visiting at the University of Michigan Law School during winter, 2009, where she received her J.D., cum laude.  Following law school, Professor Chon worked for a year as a staff attorney at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. She then clerked for the Honorable A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. After her clerkship, she practiced intellectual property law with Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis in Philadelphia. Just prior to her teaching career, she served in an administrative clerkship with Chief Judge Dolores K. Sloviter of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, where she assisted in the revision of the local Third Circuit rules.

Professor Silke von Lewinski (IP and Indigenous Heritage) is head of department specialising in international and Euro-pean 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 (PhD) at Free University Berlin.

Professor 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. Visit his blog.

Professor Sarah Rajec (TRIPS, Patents and Public Health) is the Frank H. Marks Visiting Associate Professor of Law and Administrative Fellow at George Washington University Law School.  Professor Rajec's primary research interests are in the areas of patent law and international trade law. She previously worked as a patent litigator at Fish & Richardson, P.C. in Boston, and clerked for Judge Donald C. Pogue of the United States Court of International Trade. She holds a B.S. with honors from Brown University, and received her J.D. cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School.  Following the fellowship at George Washington University Law School, Professor Rajec will begin a clerkship with Judge Alan D. Lourie of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Professor John Whealan (Federal Circuit) is Associate Dean for Intellectual Property Law Studies and Professorial Lecturer in Law at 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.