PROFESSOR HUGH C. HANSEN, Director, Fordham Annual Conference

Professor of Law
Fordham University School of Law
140 W. 62nd Street, New York, N.Y. 10023
Tel: (212) 636-6854; Fax: (212) 636-6899
E-mail: hhansen@mail.lawnet.fordham.edu

Prof. Hansen teaches courses at Fordham in copyright law, trademark law, EC intellectual property law, international and comparative copyright law, international and comparative trademark law and U.S. constitutional law. He is the founder and director of Fordham's Annual Conference on International Intellectual Property Law and Policy.

After graduation from the Georgetown University Law Center, where he was a member of the Georgetown Law Journal, Prof. Hansen clerked for Judge Inzer B. Wyatt in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Later he clerked for Judge Murray I. Gurfein in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He was in practice as an associate with the law firm of Dewey Ballantine in New York and then as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York in the Criminal Division.

He is the Intellectual Property Editor of Preview, an American Bar Association publication. Matthew Bender has just published the 2000 edition of his book, New York Intellectual Property Handbook. He is the editor of International Intellectual Property Law and Policy, Volume 1(1996), Volume 2 (1997), and Volume 3 (1998). Volumes 5 and 6 are forthcoming. He is also editing a volume entitled U.S. Intellectual Property Law and Policy for the QMW / Sweet & Maxwell series Perspectives on Intellectual Property. It will be published in the Fall.

Prof. Hansen is a frequent speaker on intellectual property topics in the United States and Europe. He has also served as a consultant or expert witness in intellectual property litigations in U.S., Europe and the Commission of the European Communities. He was the lead counsel for the plaintiff in MBI Ltd. v. Picasso, S.D.N.Y. (1994-95)

Prof. Hansen is a Visiting Professorial Research Fellow at Queen Mary and Westfield College of the University of London. He was co-director with Prof. Gerald Dworkin of the Kings College London-Fordham intellectual property seminars which had been held annually at Kings College London. These seminars have continued with Professor Michael Blakeney of QMW as co-director.