Karen Hersey
Professor of Law
Senior Scholar in Residence
- BA, Goucher College
- LLB, Boston University School of Law
- khersey@piercelaw.edu
- (603) 513-5213
- Courses: Nonprofit Technology Transfer, Managing Knowledge Assets in the University
- Committees:
- Scholarship
Professor Hersey recently retired as Senior Counsel for Intellectual
Property at Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she represented
MIT's interests on intellectual property matters with a variety of
constituencies, including industrial research partners and both U.S.
and foreign governments.
In 1992, she served as the academic community's representative to a
Congressionally-mandated Department of Defense Government-Industry
Advisory Committee on Rights in Technical Data and Computer Software,
to study and recommend changes in the Department of Defense Procurement
Regulations in the areas of technical data and computer software.
She publishes widely in the area of intellectual property law as it
impacts institutions of higher education. Professor Hersey is a past
president of the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM).
In addition to offering courses dealing with technology transfer for
nonprofit organizations and intellectual property management in
universities, she also teaches U.S. Copyright Law.
