Craig A. Nard named to Walker Professorship at Case Western Reserve University School of Law
November 8, 2005 | For more information: Jeff Bendix 216-368-6070
Craig A. Nard, professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Law and director of its Center for Law, Technology, and the Arts, has been appointed to the newly created Tom J.E. and Bette Lou Walker chair at the law school. The Walker chair is the law school's 14th chaired professorship.
The chair was presented to Craig Nard during a public ceremony at the law school. Nard gave an address on "Patent Law's Domain: Promoting Technological Innovation and Economic Welfare."
"It is a pleasure to appoint Craig to the Walker professorship," said Gerald Korngold, dean and McCurdy Professor of Law. "With a career distinguished by outstanding legal practice, scholarship and teaching, and as a valued member of our faculty, it is appropriate that he should be the first to hold this important post."
Nard joined the Case law school's faculty in 2001. Before that he was an associate professor at Marquette University Law School and a visiting associate professor at Rutgers University School of Law at Camden. Earlier he was the Julius Silver Fellow in Law, Science, and Technology at Columbia University School of Law and clerked on the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C. He has also practiced intellectual property law in Dallas.
Nard is a nationally and internationally recognized scholar in the area of patent law and has published articles in a variety of prestigious law reviews. He has authored four books, including the leading patent law casebooks, Principles of Patent Law and Fundamentals of United States Intellectual Property Law. An innovative and respected educator, he teaches in the areas of patent law and intellectual property. He also has engaged in professional service in the field of intellectual property with international, governmental and private organizations and is a senior lecturer at the World Intellectual Property Organization Academy at the University of Torino, Italy.
The Tom J.E. and Bette Lou Walker Professorship in Law was established in 2005 with a gift from the late Bette Lou Walker and her husband, Tom James Edward Walker, a 1939 graduate of the law school. "We are grateful to Bette Lou and Tom J.E. Walker for endowing this chair," Korngold said. "Their generosity makes it possible for the law school to enhance its teaching and research, thereby strengthening our position in the forefront of legal education."
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