Speaker Biographies (as received from panelists) Bill Ashworth is Counsel for Technology Policy with AeA, formerly the American Electronics Association. His responsibilities include representing AeA members on issues related to broadband deployment, privacy, and UCITA. Prior to his current position, he was an associate with Taylor, Thiemann and & Aitken in Alexandria, Virginia and Associate Counsel with the Information Industry Association in Washington, D.C. He received his undergraduate degree from American University in 1990 and his J.D. from Syracuse University College of Law in 1994. Delegate Kumar Barve is a Democrat. Elected in 1990, he represents a district with a population of roughly 110,000 that is in central Montgomery County, Maryland. Assigned to the House Committee on Economic Matters which has jurisdiction over health care reform, business regulation, insurance, consumer protection, and state economic development strategy. Appointed Chairman of the Science & Technology Sub-Committee. Also, the elected Chairman of the Montgomery County Delegation. In this capacity Delegate Barve is the legislative leader of the largest county in the state of Maryland. Delegate Barve was a co-sponsor and primary architect in 1993 of Maryland's landmark reform of health insurance. He was the prime sponsor of Maryland's 1995 law which allows HMO patients to use physicians outside of their HMO network. In 2000, Barve was the prime architect of the landmark "e-commerce" Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA). With its passage, Maryland becomes the first state in the nation to place this important consumer and business protection statute in effect.
Delegate Barve is 42-years-old. He is the chief financial officer of an environmental company in Rockville, Maryland. He graduated from Georgetown University in 1980 with a Bachelors Degree in Accounting. Dr. Shirley A. Becker received her Ph.D. in information systems from the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland. Dr. Becker is a full professor of computer science and software engineering at Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida and co-director of its Software Engineering Research Center. Dr. Becker's funded research includes web usability and testing, web-enabling technologies, and database systems. She has edited several books and published numerous articles and book chapters in these areas. Dr. Becker has served as editor the Journal of Database Management (JDM). She is currently an associate editor of JDM, and serves on several editorial review boards. Dr. Becker is a member of IEEE, ACM, and AWC. http://163.118.134.53/becker/ Mark Bohannon is the General Counsel and Vice President of Government Affairs for the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA). SIIA represents more than 1,000 companies in 33 countries around the world that develop and market software and digital content for business, education, consumers and the Internet. In this position, Mr. Bohannon is responsible for the legal and public policy agenda of the principal trade association of the digital code and content industry. His work in areas such as intellectual property, ecommerce, and the Internet, includes not only North America, but also Europe and the Pacific Rim. Prior to joining SIIA, Mr. Bohannon was a senior official of the U.S. Department of Commerce where he served as Chief Counsel for Technology and Counsellor to the Under Secretary. During his tenure, he was integrally involved in a wide range of technology development, government information, intellectual property, trade, global legal framework, ecommerce and domain name policy areas. Mr. Bohannon was a member of the US Delegation to the proposed Hague Convention, a Vice-Chair of the OECD Working Party on Information Security and Privacy, and the US Delegation to the UN Committee on International Trade Law, as well as a leader in the transition of the domain name system to the private sector and in the transatlantic agenda affecting e-commerce. A native of Austin, Texas, Mark Bohannon is a graduate of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and of the George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C. Amelia H. Boss, a graduate of Bryn Mawr College and Rutgers Camden Law School, is a Professor of Law at Temple University School of Law, where she teaches in the commercial law, bankruptcy and electronic commerce areas. She is a member of the Permanent Editorial Board of the Uniform Commercial Code, and the former chair of the Uniform Commercial Code Committee of the American Bar Association. She currently serves as the American Law Institute member of the Drafting Committee to revise Articles 1 and 2, having similarly served as the ALI member of the Drafting Committees drafting a new Article 2B on licensing of software and information (now the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act). She was the American Bar Association Advisor to the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act Drafting Committee. In the past, she served as an advisor/observer to the revisions on Article 5 (letters of credit) and Article 8 (investment securities). She is a member of the American Law Institute, and served on the Members Consultative Group on the Restatement of the Law of Suretyship. Professor Boss currently serves as Chair-Elect of the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association and formerly served as Editor-in-Chief of The Business Lawyer. She is a fellow of the American College of Commercial Financial Lawyers, and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Institute of International Commercial Law. Professor Boss currently serves as an advisor and as the United States Delegate to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) on issues relating to electronic commerce. She represented the US in the development of the UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Commerce, and is now representing the US in UNCITRAL work on digital signatures. She has also worked with the United Nations Commission on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (APEC) on issues involving electronic commerce. She is the former Editor-in-Chief of The DataLaw Report (published bi-monthly by Clark Boardman Callaghan), currently serves on the editorial board of The EDI Law Review and the Journal of Bankruptcy Law and Policy, and is the editor of the new book series, ABCs of the UCC, published by the American Bar Association. In 1998, she was ranked by The National Law Journal as one of the fifty most influential women attorneys in the United States. Jean Braucher is Roger Henderson professor of law at the University of Arizona, James E. Rogers College of Law. She teaches contracts, commercial law and bankruptcy. Her scholarship focuses on electronic commerce, consumer contracts and consumer debt. She is a member of the American Bar Association and co-chairs its Working Group on Consumer Protection in Electronic Commerce (established by the Electronic Commerce Subcommittee of the Committee on the Law of Cyberspace, Business Law Section). In October, 1999, the working group launched a web site with information for consumers on Internet shopping, www.safeshopping.org. She is also a member of the American Law Institute who has followed the development of the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act since its inception as proposed Article 2B of the Uniform Commercial Code. She served as an ALI representative on the drafting committee for UCC Revised Article 2A on personal property leasing until July of 1999 and as a member of the ALI Council ad hoc advisory committee to review Revised UCC Article 9 on secured transactions in 1998. She has published articles in many journals, including the Northwestern University Law Review, Washington University Law Quarterly, Boston University Law Review, Wisconsin Law Review, American Bankruptcy Law Journal, and American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review. She has been a visiting professor at Cornell Law School, the University of Texas School of Law, Boston College School of Law and the Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University. Lorin Brennan is a California attorney specializing in international intellectual property licensing. He is a principle in a software development firm, Gray Matter LLC, which he co-founded in 1999. The firm develops automated contracting and rights management software for intellectual property licensing. Mr. Brennan received his B.A. in Mathematics from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1974. In 1978 he graduated from the U.C. Hastings College of the Law, where he was the Editor-in-Chief of Comm/Ent: A Journal of Communications and Entertainment Law. He was admitted to the California Bar that same year. Mr. Brennan began practicing at Title Insurance & Trust Company, then the largest land title insurer in the country. He joined the law firm of Musick, Peeler & Garrett in 1981, where he represented a variety of lenders and real estate developers. In 1983 Mr. Brennan joined Lorimar Productions as Director of Distribution Legal and Business Affairs. In 1988, Mr. Brennan became Vice-President, Business Affairs for Carolco Pictures where he continued until October of 1995. In 1987, Mr. Brennan was elected a Vice-Chairman of the American Film Marketing Association, a trade association for independent producers and distributors. He was elected for 5 consecutive terms, serving until 1996. During that time, Mr. Brennan wrote the AFMA Model International Licensing Agreements, the industry standard forms for international motion picture licensing. From 1995 through 1998, Mr. Brennan served as President of the Independent Producers Association, a trade association for independent motion picture producers. In 1989, the State Department invited Mr. Brennan to act as an industry member of the U.S. Delegation to the Diplomatic Conference on the Treaty for the International Registration of Audiovisual Works sponsored by the World Intellectual Property Organization. In 1992, Mr. Brennan was a guest lecturer for WIPO on International Audiovisual Licensing in Canton, China. On behalf of independent movie producers and distributor, Mr. Brennan attended the 1996 WIPO Diplomatic Conference that led to the promulgation of the WIPO Copyright and Phonogram Treaties. He worked actively on the Digital Millenium Copyright Act that amended U.S. law to conform to the treaty requirements. Mr. Brennan has testified extensively before WIPO, the European Commission, Congress, the Patent & Trademark Office and the Copyright Office on matters involving intellectual property licensing. He has been a consistent participant in the Drafting Committee meetings for the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA) since its inception. He has spoken at numerous seminars and conferences about UCITA and intellectual property secured financing. Mr. Brennan has written several articles about intellectual property licensing. These include: Why Article 2 Cannot Apply to Software Transactions, 38 Duquesne L.R. ____ (Winter, 2000) (forthcoming); Financing Intellectual Property Under Federal Law, 41 UCC Bulletin, Rel. 3 & 4 (Aug. - Sept. 2000); The Public Policy of Information Licensing, 36 Houston L.R. 61 (1999); Why Software Publishers Should Actively Support the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (And What Will Happen If They Don't), 1 Soft. Quality Prof. 49 (1999) (with Glenn A. Barber); Through The Telescope: Article 2B and the Future of E-Commerce 37 UCC Bulletin, Rel. 3 (Apr.-May 1999); Through The Telescope II: The Meaning of UCITA 39 UCC Bulletin, Rel.43 (Jan.-Feb. 2000); The Consumer Interest In Disclosure of Terms, PLI Software and Database Licensing 739 (1999); and The Copyright Wars: The WIPO Treaties and the New Information Economy 2 PLI's Fourth Annual Institute for Intellectual Property Law 623 (1998); International Copyright Conflicts, 17 whitter L.R. 203 (1995). Stephen Y. Chow is a partner in the Boston law firm, Perkins, Smith & Cohen, LLP, and Chair of its Electronic Commerce and Communications Practice Group. He counsels technology-leading businesses, particularly in network infrastructure, drafting patent applications, and trying intellectual property and trade cases. Mr. Chow holds an A.B. cum laude in Physics and Philosophy from Harvard College, an S.M. in Applied Physics from the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law as a Stone Scholar. He also was a Guggenheim Fellow at Princeton University in Applied Physics. He began law practice as an antitrust and securities litigator at Donovan Leisure Newton & Irvine in New York and shifted practice to venture capital and bank regulation at Gaston Snow & Ely Bartlett in Boston before settling into technology practice, focusing on the computer and telecommunications industries. Mr. Chow is a member of the Massachusetts Commission on Uniform State Laws and of drafting committees of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws on the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA) and the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (UETA). Mr. Chow chairs the Banking and Commercial Law Practice Group of the Massachusetts Bar Association and is a member of the adjunct faculty of Suffolk Law School and of the American Law Institute. Donald Francis Clifford, Jr. is the Aubrey L. Brooks Professor of Law, University of North Carolina School of Law Education: Catholic University of America, A.B. (Politics), 1957; University of Colorado. L.L.B., 1963 (attended 1958-59, 1961-63). Member of the UNC law faculty since 1967. Visiting professor at the U. of Texas School of Law (summer term), Louisiana State University School of Law (summer term), U. of Richmond School of Law (summer term), the U. of Bristol (England) and the UNC program at the U. of Sydney (Australia) and has also taught courses at Duke and North Carolina Central law schools. Professor Clifford's principal teaching courses have been Sales and Secured Transactions, Business Associations, Consumer Law, and a Seminar on State Laws of Unfair and Deceptive Acts and Practices. He has written principally in areas of commercial and consumer law. His writings in recent years have addressed the warranty and disclaimer provisions in the Article 2 revision process and include: "Some Preliminary Observations on the Study Group Recommendations Regarding Creation, Content and Disclaimer of Express and Implied Warranties and Privity," appearing in "An Appraisal of the March 1, 1990, Preliminary Report of the Uniform Commercial Code Article 2 Study Group," 16 Delaware Journal of Corporate Law, 981, 1000-09, 1045-47, 1084-1112 (1991) (a symposium written by an ABA Business Law Section Task Force); "Non-UCC Statutory Provisions Affecting Warranty Disclaimers and Remedies in Sales of Goods," 71 North Carolina Law Review 1011-1109 (1993); "Issues, Answers and Some Questions Relating to Revised Sections 2-318, 2-316 and 2-318," in Commercial Law Annual 1995, 89-183; "Express Warranty Liability of Remote Sellers: One Purchase, Two Relationships," 75 Wash. U.L. Q. 413-68 (1997). Professor Clifford has also appeared on panel discussions of those topics at the American Association of Law Schools and annual meetings of the American Bar Association and the ABA Business Law Section. Professor Clifford has served on the ABA Task Force (now a subcommittee) on the revision of UCC Article Two since 1990. He is also a member of the Working Group on Consumer Protection in the Electronic Commerce Subcommittee of the ABA Business Law Section Committee on the Law of Cyberspace. He has been active in the North Carolina Bar Association Business Law Section and in activities related to the enactment of UCC revised articles 8 and 9 and has made CLE presentations on UCC and Consumer law topics at UNC programs. Julie Cohen, Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center. Professor Cohen teaches and writes about intellectual property law and data privacy law, with particular focus on computer software and digital works and on the intersection of copyright, privacy, and the First Amendment in cyberspace. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Electronic Privacy Information Center and the Board of Academic Advisors to the American Committee for Interoperable Systems, and a member of the Committee of Concerned Intellectual Property Educators, a member organization of the Digital Future Coalition. Prior to joining the Law Center Faculty in 1999, Professor Cohen was Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. She previously practiced with the San Francisco firm of McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, where she specialized in intellectual property litigation. She was law clerk to the Honorable Stephen Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Adam Cohn earned his law degree from Harvard University in 1995, and his Bachelor's degree at Cornell University in 1992. Currently, he works in the legal department of Sun Microsystems in Menlo Park, California. At Sun, Mr. Cohn provides legal support and develops marketing policy for Sun's Global Sales Organization. Before joining Sun, Mr. Cohn was an attorney in the Division of Marketing Practices in the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection. At the FTC, Mr. Cohn focused on telecommunications fraud cases, Internet fraud cases, and was heavily involved in developing the Commission Staff's public comments on UCITA and its predecessor, UCC 2B. Mr. Cohn started his legal career as an associate focusing on regulatory and marketing law at the law firm of Venable, Baetjer, Howard & Civiletti in Washington, DC. He now lives in San Francisco, California. Brian Dengler is vice president and associate general counsel of America Online, Inc. ("AOL"). He manages government and legal affairs for AOL's subsidiary, CompuServe Interactive Services, Inc., and also participates in AOL's strategy in promoting uniform legislation for electronic and online contracting. Mr. Dengler played an instrumental role in the passage of the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act in Virginia and Maryland. Mr. Dengler is a vice chair of the Subcommittee on Information Licensing of the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association. Mr. Dengler serves on Advisory Committee No. 5 of the Virginia General Assembly's Joint Commission on Technology and Science. He also serves on the Board of Trustees of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Dengler is a former partner of the law firm of Arter & Hadden. Mr. Dengler is a co-author of the following treatises: Stuckey, et al., Internet Law (3d ed.) (Law Journal-Seminar Press 2000); Zisman, et al., Banking and Thrift Laws and Regulations (Mathew Bender 1991) and Software Patent Law and Practice (Bureau of National Affairs 2000). Mr. Dengler is a former news producer for WBNS-TV in Columbus, Ohio where he won an EMMY in 1981 and three other EMMY nominations. Before joining WBNS, Mr. Dengler served as a television news reporter and producer for Scripps-Howard's WMC-TV in Memphis and WEWS-TV in Cleveland. Mary Jo Dively is a shareholder in the Corporate Department of Klett Rooney Lieber & Schorling who concentrates her practice at the forefront of developing electronic commerce law and the transition of traditional business to ebusiness. She chairs the Firm's Technology Law Group, and regularly represents both large and emerging technology and Internet companies, as well as traditional companies that are facing the myriad challenges of adapting their businesses to ecommerce. She actively participated in the drafting of the two cornerstone laws in this field: the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act and the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act, serving as the American Bar Association Advisor for the latter. She regularly counsels both companies and governments on the implementation and effect of these laws in each state. Mrs. Dively speaks frequently throughout the United States on legal issues affecting electronic commerce. Most recently she spoke at the Electronic Commerce Institute sponsored by the Georgetown University School of Law, and at a Practising Law Institute Program titled "The UCITA Revolution: The New Ecommerce Model for Software and Database Licensing". Mrs. Dively received her B.A. and B.S. Degrees from the University of Kansas and her J.D. degree from the Vanderbilt University School of Law. She is a member of the American Law Institute, co-chairs the Information Transactions Committee of the American Bar Association, is a past Director of the Pittsburgh Technology Council, and current Chair of the Board of Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, where she chairs the Finance Committee and also serves on the Technology Steering Committee. David Fares is Director of Electronic Commerce at the United States Council for International Business (USCIB), where he is responsible for managing the USCIB's electronic commerce policy program and services. The USCIB is the U.S. affiliate of the International Chamber of Commerce, the Business and Industry Advisory Committee to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the International Organization of Employers. Before joining the USCIB David served as a Project Manager for the Electronics Business Connection at the New Jersey Institute of Technology; an international legal consultant at SCOR Reinsurance in Paris, France; and a staff attorney at the Franklin County, Ohio Court of Common Pleas. Dawn Friedkin is Administrator in the Information Computer and Communications Policy Division of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris, France where she is responsible for electronic commerce policy issues, including the implementation of the 1999 OECD Guidelines for Consumer Protection in Context of Electronic Commerce. Prior to joining the OECD, Ms. Friedkin served as Counselor to the General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Commerce where she provided direct legal support to the General Counsel and served an active role in the development of a broad range of policy and legal issues, including electronic commerce, international trade, telecommunications, intellectual property, and commercial law. Ms. Friedkin has more than ten years of experience working in the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the United States government, including serving in the White House as Special Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs where she coordinated federal policy affecting states and localities. Ms. Friedkin holds a J.D. from the George Washington University Law School in Washington, DC and a B.S. from the A.B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University in New Orleans, LA. Ms. Friedkin studied international business and international marketing at the Haute Etudes Commerciales (HEC) in Jouy En Josas, France. Ms. Friedkin is from Youngstown, OH and now resides in Paris, France. Susan Grant, began her career in consumer protection in the Northwestern Massachusetts District Attorney's Office, where she worked for seventeen years as an investigator and Director of the Consumer Protection Division. She joined the staff of the nonprofit National Consumers League in 1996. Ms. Grant is Vice President for Public Policy and works on privacy, telecommunications, electronic commerce and financial services issues. She also oversees NCL's National Fraud Information Center and Internet Fraud Watch programs, which provide advice to consumers about telemarketing and online offers and relay reports about suspected telemarketing and Internet fraud to law enforcement agencies in the United State and Canada. In addition, she coordinates the Alliance Against Fraud in Telemarketing and Electronic Commerce, a coalition of government agencies, consumer organizations, trade groups, and companies that works to educate the public about consumers' rights and how to shop safely by telephone and online. Robert Hillman, Edwin Woodruff Professor of Law at Cornell Law School has written or co-written six books and over 40 articles and book reviews in the area of contracts and commercial law. He is the author of The Richness of Contract Law (1997), which analyzes and critiques the major contemporary theories of contract law, and is coauthor of Common Law and Equity Under the Uniform Commercial Code (1985), which explores the interaction of the Uniform Commercial Code and other sources of commercial law. After graduating from Cornell Law School, Professor Hillman clerked for two federal judges, practiced law at Debevoise and Plimpton, and began his teaching career at the University of Iowa College of Law. Robert W. Holleyman is President & CEO of the Business Software Alliance (BSA) in Washington, DC. He is responsible for BSA's worldwide public policy, education, and enforcement campaigns. Holleyman is an expert witness on policy-related issues affecting the software industry including domestic and international copyright issues, trade issues, and emerging policy concerns resulting from the increasing popularity of the Internet. Holleyman was designated by Computer Reseller News as one of its "Twenty to Watch" in the computer software industry. He is a regular contributor on the popular syndicated radio program, "On Computers." Holleyman is a frequent guest on National Public Radio and has appeared on all the leading network, public and cable television news programs. He has also authored numerous articles on the software industry which have appeared in newspapers, business publications and magazines, law journals, and in the high tech trade press. In addition, Holleyman is the founding president of the Alliance Against CD-ROM Theft (AACT) -- an organization combating the production and distribution of illegal CD-ROMs throughout Asia. Prior to joining BSA in 1990, Holleyman spent eight years on Capitol Hill as Senior Counsel for the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (1987-1990); and Legislative Director and Assistant to former U.S. Senator Russell B. Long (D-LA) (1982-1986). He also was an attorney with Margraves, Kennerly & Schueler in Houston, Texas and judicial clerk for U.S. District Judge Jack M. Gordon, New Orleans, Louisiana. Holleyman earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in political science at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, and his Juris Doctor at Louisiana State University Law Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Bruce H. Kobayashi, is Professor of Law at George Mason University. He has been a member of the George Mason Unversity Law faculty since 1992. Professor Kobayashi received his Ph.D in Economics from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1986. He has previously served as an Economist at the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, as a Senior Economist at the Federal Trade Commission, and as a Senior Research Associate at the United States Sentencing commission. He also currently serves as a contributing editor to the Supreme Court Economic Review. Professor Kobayashi has published numerous articles in the field of law and economics, including a recent papers on the Uniform Comupter Information Transactions Act and on the uniform lawmaking process generally. Philip Koopman is an Assistant Professor at the Carnegie Mellon University Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. Additionally, he is the Embedded & Reliable Information System thrust leader at the CMU Institute for Complex Engineered Systems, the Dependable Embedded System thrust leader for the CMU/General Motors satellite research laboratory, and an affiliated faculty member of the Institute for Software Research, International (ISRI). Koopman received a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1989 and both a M.Eng. and B.S. in Computer and Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1982. From 1982 to 1987, he was a U.S. Navy submarine officer. He completed a Pacific Fleet sea and shipyard tour aboard the USS Haddock (nuclear-powered fast attack submarine) as Sonar and Weapons officer and is qualified in submarine warfare (gold dolphins). He earned the Naval Expeditionary Medal for participation in the Cold War and a Naval Achievement Medal. He was then stationed in Newport, RI at the Trident Command and Control Systems Maintenance Activity (TRICCSMA), which performs system integration and lifecycle support for Trident submarine tactical computer systems. From 1986 to 1991, he was a partner in WISC Technologies, which designed and manufactured Forth-based stack computers. The patents for the technology were licensed to Harris Semiconductor. He then became a Senior Scientist at Harris Semiconductor, in charge of embedded processor architecture from 1989 to 1991. He was the architect of the Harris RTX-4000 32-bit processor prototype. From 1991 to 1995, he was a Principal Research Engineer at United Technologies Research Center. There, he worked with embedded computer applications for Otis (elevators), Pratt & Whitney (jet engines), Norden (RADARs and SONARs), Carrier (HVAC equipment), UT Automotive (input control electronics), and Sikorsky (helicopters). He also conducted research on system design methodologies and embedded CAD tools. In 1996, Koopman joined the CMU EDRC as a Visiting Senior Research Engineer. In 1997 he joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering department as a tenure-track Assistant Professor. Koopman is an Associate Editor of Design Automation for Embedded Systems: an international journal. He has written four books, and holds twenty U.S. patents in areas such as embedded CPU design, embedded communications, and vehicle security. He has thus far advised or co-advised 8 students earning the M.S. degree, and is currently advising 9 M.S. and Ph.D. students. Carol A. Kunze ckunze@ix.netcom.com is an attorney in California. Carol graduated from Georgetown University Law Center in 1980, and also received an LLM in tax from Georgetown in 1983. She started her legal career in Washington, D.C., then moved to Brussels, Belgium to practice in the international tax area. In 1987 Carol became Chief European Counsel for Levi Strauss, and in 1992 was transferred to San Francisco to cover domestic issues. Shortly after arriving in San Francisco, she began working in the high tech policy arena on a pro bono basis and eventually decided to devote full time to those issues. Since 1996 Carol has focused exclusively on legislative and policy work relating to software and ecommerce. Carol attended the UCITA drafting committee meetings from 1996 - 1999 and is the creator of the website "UCITA Online" http://www.ucitaonline.com. She also attended the drafting committee meetings for the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act and created a second website on that act entitled "UETA Online" http://www.uetaonline.com. In more recent years, Carol has focused on open source and free software licensing issues. She submitted comments to the FTC's regarding the High-Tech Warranty Forum on behalf of Red Hat, Inc., the Open Source Initiative, TurboLinux, Inc., Crynwr Software, and MandrakeSoft, Inc. David R. Johnson is a partner of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering. His practice focuses primarily on the emerging area of electronic commerce, including counseling on issues relating to privacy, domain names and Internet governance issues, jurisdiction, copyright, taxation, electronic contracting, encryption, defamation, ISP and OSP liability, regulation, and other intellectual property matters. Mr. Johnson returned to WCP in August 1998, after serving as founding director of the Aspen Institute Internet Policy Project and as founding president, CEO, and chairman of Counsel Connect, the online meeting place for the legal profession. He also is a founder and has served as co-director of the Cyberspace Law Institute. His most extensive practice in recent years has involved software and systems contracting and counseling on the laws applicable to electronic publishing and online systems. Mr. Johnson's practice also has included litigation, administrative law, and counseling regarding valuation theory, and independent contractor status. He helped to write the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, was involved in discussions leading to the Framework for Global Electronic Commerce, and has been active in the introduction of personal computers in law practice. Mr. Johnson is a graduate of Yale College (B.A. 1967, summa cum laude) and Yale Law School (J.D. 1972). In addition, he completed a year of post-graduate study at University College, Oxford (1968). Following graduation from law school, he clerked a year for Judge Malcolm R. Wilkey of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Mr. Johnson joined WCP in 1973 and became a partner in 1980. Mr. Johnson has served on the boards of directors of the National Center for Automated Information Research and the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction. He is a co-founder of the Law Practice Technology Roundtable and serves on the Advisory Committee of the Center for Democracy and Technology. Mr. Johnson has served on the Board, as a policy fellow, and as chairman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. His writings include: "Regulation and the Political Process," co-authored with Lloyd N. Cutler, 84 Yale Law Journal 1395 (June 1975); "Law and Borders -- The Rise of Law in Cyberspace," co-authored with David G. Post, 48 Stanford Law Review 1367 (May 1996) (1997 McGannon Award); "And How Shall the Net Be Governed?" and "The New Civic Virtue of the Internet," both co-authored with David G. Post and available (as is the prior work) at www.cli.org. His work on the legal issues posed by cyberspace has been profiled in the Wall Street Journal and New York Times. Charles R. McManis, Professor of Law at Washington University in St. Louis, has been a member of the law faculty since 1978. He teaches Torts, Copyrights & Related Rights, Patents & Trade Secrets, the Law of Unfair Trade Practices, Unfair Practices in International Trade, and International Intellectual Property Law. He graduated from Birmingham-Southern College in 1964, and in 1972 received his J.D. degree, as well as an M.A. degree in Philosophy, from Duke University, where he served as Note & Comment Editor of the Duke Law Journal, and was inducted into the Order of the Coif. After graduating from law school he served as Law Clerk to the Honorable Frank M. Johnson, Jr., Chief Judge of the Federal District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, and then went into law teaching, serving on the law faculties of the University of Georgia (1973-77) and Louisiana State University (1977-78), before joining the law faculty of Washington University. He was also a visiting professor at Vanderbilt University in the Fall of 1976. Professor McManis is a member of the American Law Institute and the International Association of Teachers and Researchers of Intellectual Property; has served as a consultant for the World Intellectual Property Organization in the People's Republic of China, the Republic of Korea, and India; was an exchange professor at Sichuan University in Chengdu, China, in 1989, and Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea, in 1997; was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to lecture and do research at the International Intellectual Property Training Institute in Taejon, Korea in 1993 and 1994; and has regularly lectured in Japan at Nihon University College of Law and College of Economics. Professor McManis is the author of a student text, Intellectual Property and Unfair Competition in a Nutshell (4th ed. 2000), and has published numerous articles, including, The Privatization (or "Shrink-Wrapping") of American Copyright Law, 87 California Law Review 173 (1999); Intellectual Property and International Mergers and Acquisitions, 66 University of Cincinnati Law Review 1283 (1998); The Interface Between International Intellectual Property and Environmental Protection: Biodiversity and Biotechnology, 76 Washington University Law Quarterly255 (1998); Taking TRIPS on the Information Superhighway: International Intellectual Property Protection and Emerging Computer Technology, 41 Villanova Law Review 207 (1996); Intellectual Property Protection and Reverse Engineering of Computer Programs in the United States and European Community, 8 High Technology Law Journal 25 (1993). David Mirchin, has been Vice President and General Counsel of SilverPlatter Information, Inc. since 1993. Prior to that, he was a corporate attorney in the Boston office of McDermott, Will & Emery, and prior to that at the Boston-based law firm of Mintz Levin. He has also practiced law with commercial law firms in Tokyo, Japan and Tel Aviv, Israel (where he passed the Bar exam). He is an Adjunct Professor of e-Commerce Law at Boston College Law School where he teaches a course on "Advising the Internet Start-up". He has testified before the Copyright Office on internet legislation, and has also written and spoken frequently on internet law topics. A recent business op-ed article, entitled "Putting an End to Database Piracy" was published in the Boston Globe. He received a B.A. in Chinese History in 1979 from Yale University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1983. SilverPlatter Information is an Internet publisher of bibliographic and full-text databases for researchers and professionals. SilverPlatter Information's main offices are in London, Amsterdam and Boston, with regional offices throughout Asia and Europe. Jeffrey Rachlinski received his B.A. and M.A. in psychology from the Johns Hopkins University in 1988 and his J.D. from Stanford Law School in 1993. Mr. Rachlinski was a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow in psychology at Stanford University from 1989 to 1993, and received his Ph.D. in 1994. After graduating from Law School, Dr. Rachlinski worked as an associate in the litigation department at Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich, and Rosati in Palo Alto, California. From 1994 to 1997, Dr. Rachlinski was an assistant professor at Cornell Law School, was an associate professor there from 1997 to 2000, and is now a professor there. He was a visiting associate professor at the University of Chicago Law School in the spring of 1999. Dr. Rachlinski's research interests primarily involve the application of cognitive and social psychology to law, but also include some aspects of environmental law. He has taught civil procedure, administrative law, environmental law, natural resources law, and social and cognitive psychology for lawyers. Jerome H. Reichman became Bunyan A. Womble Professor of Law at Duke University on July 1, 2000, where he teaches in the field of contracts and intellectual property. Before coming to Duke, he taught at Vanderbilt, Michigan, Florida and Ohio State Universities, and the University of Rome, Italy. He graduated from the University of Chicago (B.A.) and attended Yale Law School, where he received his J.D. degree in 1979. Professor Reichman has written and lectured widely on all aspects of intellectual property law, including comparative and international intellectual property law. He has written extensively on the connections between intellectual property and international trade law, and his most recent writings have focused on the ongoing controversies about intellectual property rights in data, and the appropriate contractual regime for online delivery of computer programs and other information goods. Professor Reichman serves as special advisor to the United States National Academy of Sciences and the International Council for Science (ICSU) on the subject of legal protection for databases. He also serves as Consultant to the National Research Council's Project on Promoting Access to Scientific and Technical Data for the Public Interest. He is an Academic Advisor to the American Committee for Interoperable Systems (ACIS); a consultant to the Technology Program of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD); and a consultant on the United Nations Development Program's (UNDP) flagship project concerning Africa's response to the TRIPS agreement. Curtis R. Reitz, Professor of Law,
University of Pennsylvania School of Law. David A. Rice, Professor of Law, Roger Williams University School of Law Areas of Expertise: Commercial, Contract, Intellectual & Property Law. Legal Education: LL.B., cum laude, Columbia Law School, Columbia University International Fellow. LL.B., cum laude, Columbia Law School, Columbia University International Fellow. Judicial Clerkship: Honorable Robert P. Anderson, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Professor Rice also has served as an American Law Institute Representative on the Drafting Committee for a new uniform state law for software and computer information contracts. His recent publications include: License with Contracts and Precedent: Consequences and the Rationale Offered for the Non-transferability of Licenses Under UCC Article 2B, BERKELEY TECHNOLOGY LAWJOURNAL; and Digital Information as Property and Product, DAYTON LAW REVIEW. After Professor Rice graduated from Columbia Law School, he clerked for a federal appellate judge. He has been a Senior Research Scholar and Visiting Lecturer at Yale Law School and taught at the University of Wisconsin Law School, University of Maine Law School, Arizona State Law School, Boston University Law School and Rutgers Law School - Newark. Larry E. Ribstein is Foundation Professor of Law, George Mason University School of Law. He has written two casebooks on business associations law (Unincorporated Business Entities, and Business Associations, the latter with Peter Letsou), co-authored the leading treatises, Bromberg & Ribstein on Partnership and Ribstein & Keatinge on Limited Liability Companies, and is the co-author of The Constitution and the Corporation (1995). He has also written or co-authored more than 80 articles on corporate and partnership law, constitutional law, choice of law and uniform laws and is the co-editor of the Supreme Court Economic Review. His resume is available at http://mason.gmu.edu/~lribstei/index.htm. Carlyle C. (Connie) Ring, Jr. graduated from Hamilton College in l953 and from Duke University, School of Law in 1956. Member of the Permanent Editorial Board of the Uniform Commercial Code (1985 to present) Virginia Commissioner to the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL). Past President of NCCUSL 1983-85; Chair of the Drafting Committees for UCC Articles 4A (1989); Revised UCC Article 3 and 4 (1990); Revised UCC Article 5 (1995); and UCITA (1999); General Counsel for Atlantic Research Corporation from 1985 to 1998 (a licensee). Ober, Kaler Grimes and Shriver (partner 1963-85; of counsel l998-present). Steve Sakamoto-Wengel has been an Assistant Attorney General with the Consumer Protection Division of the Maryland Attorney General's office since 1986. From 1994-96, Steve was an Attorney Advisor with the Federal Labor Relations Authority in Washington, D.C. Steve is a 1991 graduate of Penn State University and a 1994 graduate of the University of Maryland School of Law. Ben Shneiderman is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Founding Director (1983-2000) of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, and Member of the Institutes for Advanced Computer Studies and for Systems Research, all at the University of Maryland at College Park. Dr. Shneiderman is the author of more than 200 technical papers and book chapters. Two of his books were influential in the emerging field of human-computer interaction: Software Psychology: Human Factors in Computer and Information Systems (1980) and Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction (1987, third edition 1998, booksite), Addison-Wesley Publishers, Reading, MA. His pioneering work on hypertext user interfaces contributed to the formation of the World Wide Web and his efforts on information visualization have led to a successful commercial product called Spotfire. A co-authored collection of 47 key papers with extensive commentary - Using Vision to Think - appeared in 1999 (with S. Card and J. Mackinlay). Ben Shneiderman is on the Board of Directors of Spotfire Inc. and has been on the Editorial Advisory Boards of nine journals. He received an Honorary Doctorate of Science from the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada in 1996 and was elected as a Fellow of the Association for Computing (ACM) in 1997. He is the Founding Chair of the ACM Conference on Universal Usability, November 16-17, 2000. Carina Tornblom, Head of Unit, Health and Consumer Protection Directorate, European Commission. |