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. Robert R. Lech will teach a variety Intellectual Property courses including Patent Law and has expressed an avid interest in teaching the proposed “Dot.Com Law” course. While completing his undergraduate and legal education, Prof. Lech worked full-time in the information technology industry. He was responsible for a variety of projects ranging from developing entertainment software marketed by Atari, Inc. to overseeing development of an employee benefits management system for Comerica, Inc., a large Midwestern bank. Professor Lech has practiced as both in-house corporate and in private practice. Most notably, he was one of the three in-house counsel responsible for the Priceline patent and trademark portfolio. More recently, he was a senior associate at Calfee, Halter & Griswold LLP in Columbus, Ohio, where he drafted and prosecuted US and foreign patent applications, conducted discovery and drafted dispositive motions in high-profile patent litigation cases, and counseled clients regarding appropriate overall IP strategy. Professor Lech joined the UDSL faculty in the fall of 2005, as a visiting assistant professor of law.
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.
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.
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.