Emeritus Professor of Law
Education
B.S., Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations, 1971
J.D., Cornell University Law School, 1974
Experience
Mitchell Hamline School of Law: emeritus professor of law, 2015-.
William Mitchell College of Law: emeritus professor of law, 2015; professor of law, 2007-2015.
Of counsel, Patterson Thuente Christensen Pedersen, P.A., 2007-.
World Intellectual Property Organization, Geneva, Switzerland: director, Office of the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) 2002-2007; senior legal officer, Industrial Property Div., 1976-1986.
Officer, Fredrikson & Byron, Minneapolis, 2000-2002.
Professor and chair, department of legal studies in business, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, 1986-2003.
Legal Officer, International Labor Organization (ILO), Geneva, Switzerland, 1975-1976.
Associate, Thorp, Reed & Armstrong, Pittsburgh, 1974-1975.
Consultant, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), short-term assignments in Jordan, Lebanon, Sri Lanka, and Asia Private Enterprise Branch, 1989-2001.
U.S. State Department: consultant to Nigeria and Sri Lanka; State Dept. speaker in Barbados, Egypt, India, Israel, Jamaica, Nepal, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and the West Bank, 1989-2000.
