Distinguished Speaker Series

January 18, 2005

Featuring Professor Jim Chen from the University of Minnesota Law School.

"There's No Such Thing as Biopiracy...And It's a Good Thing, Too"
Professor Chen, a former law clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas of the Supreme Court of the United States, is the James L. Krusemark Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School. A prolific scholar, Professor Chen teaches and writes in the areas of administrative law, agricultural law, constitutional law, economic regulation, environmental law, industrial policy and legislation. He has written more than 60 articles and his credits include law journals at Yale, Columbia, UCLA, Texas, USC, Hastings and UC Davis. Topics such as biodiversity loss, pragmatic ecology and broadband internet regulation reflect his interest in cutting-edge topics that challenge judicial decision makers. Professor Chen’s lectures have spanned 10 countries, four continents and three
languages. In 1995, he held a chaire départementale in the Faculté de Droit et des Sciences Politiques of the Université de Nantes, France. In 1999, he became the first American to teach law as a visiting professor at Heinrich-Heine-Universtität in Düsseldorf, Germany. He taught in 2000 at the Slovak Agricultural University in Nitra, Slovakia. Professor Chen received his B.A., summa cum laude, and his M.A. from Emory University. After studying as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Iceland, he
earned his J.D. degree, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School, where he served as an Executive Editor of the Harvard Law Review.

Time: 4:00 pm

Location: campus - Courtroom