Paul J. Heald, University of Georgia
A Transaction Costs Theory of Patent Law
Paul J. Heald is the Allen Post Professor of Law at the University of Georgia School of Law. He teaches courses in intellectual property law, contracts, and constitutional law, and has published numerous articles on domestic and international intellectual property law. Professor Heald also recently published his first novel, No Regrets, in 2003.

Rochelle Dreyfuss, New York University
Protecting the Public Domain of Science under International Law
Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss is the Pauline Newman Professor of Law at New York University School of Law. Her research and teaching interests include intellectual property, civil procedure, privacy, and the relationship between science and law. She has been a consultant to the Federal Courts Study Committee and the Federal Trade Commission, and was a member of the National Academies of Science committee on intellectual property rights in the knowledge-based economy. She is now a member of the Academy's committee on intellectual property in genomic and protein research and innovation and serves as one of the reporters on the American Law Institute's Project on Intellectual Property: Principles Governing Jurisdiction, Choice of Law, and Judgments in Transnational Disputes.

Jonathan Zittrain, Harvard University
Free Software and the Future of the Internet
Jonathan Zittrain is the Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School and a director of its Berkman Center for Internet & Society. His research includes the technologies and politics of control of Internet architecture and protocols, the influence of private intermediaries upon online behavior, and the future of open source software. He also has a strong interest in creative, useful, and unobtrusive ways to deploy technology in the classroom.

Glynn S. Lunney, Jr., Tulane University
Direct and Indirect Stock Price Reactions to Patent Decisions
Glynn S. Lunney is a Professor of Law at Tulane University School of Law. He received a B.S. in petroleum engineering from Texas A&M University and his law degree from Stanford, and is presently completing a Ph.D. in economics at Tulane. Professor Lunney teaches and writes primarily in the fields of patents, copyright, and trademarks.

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Alfred C. Yen, Boston College
Liability With and Without Fault: A Re-appraisal of Secondary Liability in Copyright in the Internet Age
Alfred C. Yen is a Professor of Law, Law School Fund Scholar, and Director of the Emerging Enterprises and Business Law Program at Boston College Law School. He is a nationally known scholar who has published numerous articles about copyright law, the Internet, Asian-American legal issues, and the teaching of law. Professor Yen recently completed terms on the board of editors for the Journal of Legal Education and the board of governors for the Society of American Law Teachers.

The March 17 session will take place at 3:30 p.m.

Maureen A. O'Rourke, Boston University School of Law
The Economics of Preemption
Maureen A. O'Rourke is Dean ad Interim, Professor of Law, and Michaels Faculty Research Scholar at Boston University School of Law. Dean O'Rourke teaches and writes in the areas of intellectual property and commercial law. She has visited at Columbia University , the University of Victoria, and LaTrobe University (Australia). She is currently an associate reporter on the American Law Institute's Project on Principles of Software Contracting.

For more information, please contact Professor Julie Cohen at (202) 662-9871, e-mail: jec@law.georgetown.edu.