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Courses in the graduate program will be taught by full-time, visiting or adjunct faculty of the University of Dayton. Currently the University of Dayton has seven talented full-time faculty members who have already taught or are expected to teach courses offered in the program.
Prof. Susan Brenner teaches in the area of Cyberspace Law and Cybercrimes. Prof. Brenner is the NCR Distinguished Professor of Law and Technology at the School of Law. A renowned cybercrime scholar, Professor Brenner speaks internationally and writes extensively on cybercrime. She is a member of the American Bar Association’s International Cybercrime Project and has served on the National District Attorneys Association’s Committee on Cybercrimes. She is also a member of the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Forensic Science Technology Center Digital Evidence Project.
Ken Germain has joined UDSL as a Distinguished Professorial Practitioner in Residence to teach intellectual property-oriented students and to help strengthen PILT. He leads the trademark practice group in the Cincinnati office of Thompson Hine LLP and focuses his practice on trademark counseling, consulting, and litigation. He is often an expert witness on issues relating to trademarks and unfair competition.
Prof. Germain is a frequent presenter at events focused on intellectual property as well as a prolific publisher, having written articles for The Annual Review of U.S. Trademark Law. He serves on the Advisory Council for the J. Thomas McCarthy Center for Intellectual Property and Technology Law and is the founder and continuing chairman of the All Ohio Annual Institute on Intellectual Property seminar, which recently held its 15th annual statewide program. Prof. Germain earned his J.D. from New York University School of Law, where he was Associate Editor of the N.Y.U. Law Review.
Prof. Dennis Greene teaches in the area of Entertainment Law and Media Law as well as Conflict Management and ADR. After graduating from Yale Law School, Prof. Green became Vice President of Production and Features at Columbia Pictures and later became President of Lenox/Greene Films. Before joining the School of Law faculty in 2004, Professor Greene taught at Florida A&M University for two years. He also taught at the University of Oregon for four years and has been a visiting professor at The Ohio State University, Seton Hall University, and the University of Connecticut. In addition, he has been on the Society of American Law Teachers board of directors and on the Law School Admissions Council’s Services and Programs Committee. He’s currently listed in Who’s Who Among African Americans.
Prof. Charles Hallinan has been on the faculty at UDSL since 1983. He specializes in commercial law and teaches a variety of commercial law classes. Prof. Hallinan has also taught the courses in Electronic Commerce and Protection of Computers and Software.
Prof. Sam Han joined the faculty in 2008 to teach in the areas of patent law and intellectual property law. “He will be a great resource, particularly for those of our students with backgrounds in the hard sciences and engineering as they learn to be the next generation of patent law professionals,” says PILT Director Kelly Henrici. Before he entered law school, Professor Han earned a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. “The competition was fierce and I wanted to distinguish myself, so that’s why I went to law school,” he said. Professor Han earned his J.D. cum laude from Georgia State University where he participated in Moot Court and was a semi-finalist in the Southeast Regional Competition. He also founded the Intellectual Property Board at Georgia State and externed with the Honorable Marvin Shoob, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, and the Honorable Wendy L. Shoob, Fulton County Superior Court. After gaining experience as an associate at Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP and McGuireWoods LLP – both firms in Atlanta – Professor Han became the litigation counsel for Furukawa Electric North America, (the parent company of OFS Fitel, LLC, which was the optical fiber division for AT&T/Lucent). Professor Han says the job was a great opportunity, but that he “always wanted to be a professor.”
Prof. Tracy L. Reilly teaches in the area of Copyright and Trademark law. Prof. Reilly cames to UDSL from private practice where, as a partner in the Chicago law firm of Kirkland and Ellis, she practiced in the areas of intellectual property, entertainment law, advertising and corporate law. Prof. Reilly also served as an adjunct professor of law in intellectual property and entertainment law at Valpariso University’s School of Law in Indiana.
Prof. Julie Zink, a 1999 graduate of the University of Dayton School of Law, joined the faculty in 2006. Prior to joining UDSL, she worked part-time as an adjunct professor, while maintaining a full-time job as a patent litigator. Professor Zink is also active in the Dayton Intellectual Property Law Association, where she has been an officer since 2005. The majority of Professor Zink's time is spent teaching Legal Profession courses to students enrolled in the Intellectual Property, Cyberlaw and Creativity Track. However, she has also supervised a directed reading on patent litigation, and is currently in the midst of developing a capstone course on patent litigation for Spring 2009.
The School of Law has been blessed with the talents and generosity of an array of adjunct faculty from the Dayton, Cincinnati and Columbus areas who have brought their considerable expertise into play as teachers in various aspects of the Law School’s PLT program and its new Intellectual Property, Cyberlaw and Creativity curricular track. Biographical information on some of our adjunct faculty appears here and will reveal the remarkable variety and depth of expertise of these adjunct faculty members.
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