A global hub of IP networking: the Pierce Law advantage
Fact: Pierce Law has thousands of IP alumni around the globe in service to the IP community while building the Pierce Law reputation and network of colleagues
Fact: The IP faculty travels the globe to all types of IP events in service to the IP community while building the Pierce Law reputation and network of colleagues
Fact: For 35 years Pierce Law classes have been filled with global IP professionals who build their capacity while networking with new law students in training
Our IP faculty travel from Africa to the Americas, Asia, Europe and India
In the 1970s and 1980s the team of Professors Robert Rines, Robert Shaw, Homer Blair, Bryan Harris traveled the world building IP capacity in Europe, the former Soviet Union as well as extensively throughout Asia. Not only did they build capacity as visitors, they invited IP professionals from around the globe to come to Pierce Law for free training.
This inititative of educating IP professionals resulted in the formation of the world's first interdisciplinary IP Master of Intellectual Property degree, held by some of the top leaders of IP in government, industry and legal practice.
During the 1990s and the new milennium IP faculty engage in a wide range of global activities:
- Participating in conferences, symposium, continuing legal education, government, NGO and many other IP related events
- Leaders in global and domestic professional associations
- Acting as expert witnesses
- Acting as arbitrators
- Authoring content in a wide range of formats including articles, casebooks, treatises, reports, websites and blogs
Gallery of our current global ambassadors
Karl F. Jorda, Professor Emeritus of Franklin Pierce Law Center
Mary W. S. Wong, Professor of Law and Chair, IP Programs
For 35 years Pierce Law classes have been filled with global IP professionals who build their capacity while networking with new law students in training
For over two decades Pierce law students have had the unique opportunity of networking with global IP professionals around the globe in our unique graduate programs. The number of students in the graduate programs has grown to as high as fifty per class.
Above is the MIP Class - 1987 Top Row, Left to Right: Vergil Alcazaren Tee Cheow Koh Li Xian-Chun Wu Xiaonan Standing, Left to Right: Meng Qingfa Kee Sang Na Han Xiaoqing Chuang Ya-Shin Wang Jie Robin James
