
Professor Nard, who joined the Case School of Law faculty in 2001, serves as Co-Director of the Center for Law, Technology and the Arts. He is also a Senior Lecturer at the World Intellectual Property Organization Academy at the University of Torino, Italy. Professor Nard practiced intellectual property law in Dallas, Texas prior to becoming the Julius Silver Fellow in Law, Science, and Technology at Columbia University School of Law. After his fellowship, he clerked on the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C. for the Honorable Helen W. Nies, and then the Honorable Giles S. Rich. Before joining the Case law faculty, he was an Associate Professor of Law at Marquette University Law School and a Visiting Associate Professor of Law at Rutgers University School of Law at Camden. He has published in various law reviews, including the Northwestern Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, Minnesota Law Review, Illinois Law Review, Indiana Law Journal, Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, William & Mary Law Review, and the Wake Forest Law Review. He is also an author of the patent law casebook, Principles of Patent Law (Foundation Press 3rd ed 2004) (with Chisum, Schwartz, Newman, & Kieff), Fundamentals of United States Intellectual Property Law, (Kluwer Law International 2nd ed 2006) (with Halpern and Port), The Law of Intellectual Property (Aspen Publishing 2005) (with Madison and Barnes), and Concepts and Insights: Patent Law (Foundation Press - forthcoming 2007 ) (with R.P. Wagner). Prof. Nard teaches in the areas of intellectual property and patent law. B.A. 1987 (Washington & Jefferson), J.D. 1990 (Capital), LL.M. 1995, J.S.D. 1999 (Columbia).