Summer Programs for 2008
Welcome to Franklin Pierce Law Center Summer Programs
Summer Programs Information Request Form
Franklin Pierce Law Center, a leader in Intellectual Property education in the United States, offers/offered these programs this summer.
- Fourth Annual eLaw Summer Institute (eLaw)
was held in Cork, Ireland, July 7-July 25, 2008
- Sixth Annual China Intellectual Property Summer Institute (CHIPSI)
was held in Beijing and Xi'an, China, June 30-July 25, 2008
- Twenty-Second Annual Intellectual Property Summer Institute (IPSI)
was held in Concord, New Hampshire on, May 27-June 27, 2008 - Second Annual Advanced Topics in International Criminal Law and Justice Seminar
was held in Washington, D.C. on May 19-May 23, 2008
All programs are approved by the American Bar Association and open to all law students, graduate students and legal professionals. The course offerings are the most comprehensive of all such programs and taught by a seasoned faculty with a wealth of experience. Students choosing to attend a summer program can earn up to six credits in a five-week span. Those students that chose to attend the one-week seminar in Washington D.C. had an opportunity to earn two credits.
Twenty-Second Annual
Intellectual Property Summer Institute (IPSI)
was held in Concord, New Hampshire, on May 27-June 27, 2008
The Intellectual Property Summer Institute is highly attended by lawyers, intellectual property administrators and corporate IP managers from around the world. Law students have an opportunity to interact with these international professionals in classes.
The program is very much international in its course offerings. International and Comparative Patent Law will be offered along with International and Comparative Copyright Law. With the growth of the new information technologies, course offerings such as Advertising Law and Software Licensing are very timely for law students seeking careers in these areas of practice. In addition, with the growing importance of intellectual property transactions practice, you might note the course offerings in Technology Licensing, Global IP Management and Valuation of IP.
Professor Craig Joyce from the University of Houston Law Center offers U.S. Copyright Law; Professor Mary LaFrance from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, offers U.S. Trademark Law and John Whealan from the USPTO offers Practices and Current Issues from the Federal Circuit. Additional courses include Music Law and Law of Motion Picture, Virtual and Performing Arts.
The Sixth Annual
China Intellectual Property Summer Institute (CHIPSI)
was held in Beijing and Xi'an, China, June 30-July 25, 2008
The Summer Study Abroad Program at Tsinghua School of Law, Beijing that started in 2002, is a natural extension of the Intellectual Property Summer Institute, which is held in Concord, New Hampshire every summer since 1987. Tsinghua University, the premier institution of science and technology in China, established its School of Law in 1999 in a new facility at the center of the Tsinghua campus in northwest Beijing, the site of the former Imperial Gardens of the Qing dynasty princes.
Fourth Annual eLaw Summer Institute (eLaw)
was held in Cork, Ireland, July 7-July 25, 2008
Initiated in the summer of 2005, the eLaw Summer Institute at University College Cork, in Cork, Ireland, focuses on the emerging policy and law of the information age. The University College Cork Faculty of Law has developed considerable teaching expertise in the fields of eLaw and Commercial Law, a perfect complement to the Commerce and Technology curriculum of the Pierce Law Intellectual Property Program.
Second Annual Advanced Topics in
International Criminal Law and Justice Seminar
was held in Washington, D.C. on May 19-May 23, 2008
Pierce Law has developed the Advanced Topics in International Criminal Law and Justice Seminar targeted to students who are interested in the discipline of international criminal law and justice. Course offerings will include such topics as terrorism, genocide, war crimes, national security, international counterfeiting and money laundering.
We look forward to you joining us for our upcoming 2008 Summer Programs in New Hampshire, China, Ireland.
Sincerely,
Debra A. Beauregard
Director of Graduate Programs
Contact us
Franklin Pierce Law Center
2 White Street
Concord, NH 03301
dbeauregard@piercelaw.edu
summerprograms@piercelaw.edu
Phone: (603) 228-1541 ext. 1173
Fax: (603) 224-3342
