Summer Law Programs for 2010
Franklin Pierce Law Center Summer Programs
Franklin Pierce Law Center, a leader in Intellectual Property education in the United States, is holding four intense academic programs this summer.
Fourth Annual Advanced Topics in International Criminal Law and Justice Seminar
will be held in Washington, D.C. on May 10-14, 2010
Twenty-Fourth Annual Intellectual Property Summer Institute (IPSI)
will be in Concord, New Hampshire on May 24-June 25, 2010
Eighth Annual China Intellectual Property Summer Institute (CHIPSI)
will be held in Beijing and Xi'an, China on June 28-July 23, 2010
Sixth Annual eLaw Summer Institute (eLaw)
will be held in Cork, Ireland on July 5-July 23, 2010
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.
Fourth Annual Advanced Topics in
International Criminal Law and Justice Seminar
will be held in Washington, D.C. on May 10-May 14, 2010
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 included such topics as terrorism, genocide, war crimes, national security, international counterfeiting and money laundering.
Twenty-Fourth Annual
Intellectual Property Summer Institute (IPSI)
will be held in Concord, New Hampshire on May 24-June 25, 2010
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 Trademark Law. With the growth of the new information technologies, course offerings such as Telecommunications 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, Software Licensing, Global IP Management, and Managing IP - Financial Principals.
Professor Mary LaFrance from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, offers International Entertainment Law, Jon Cavicchi from Franklin Pierce Law Center offers Mining Patent Information in the Digital Age and Professor Keith Harrison from Franklin Pierce Law Center offers Intellectual Property Crimes. Additional courses include Legal Aspects of Songwriting, Legal Aspects of an Artist's Career, Counterfeit Product and Intellectual Property, Legal Protection of Traditional Knowledge and Biodiversity and Pharmaceutical Patent Law.
Eighth Annual
China Intellectual Property Summer Institute (CHIPSI)
will be held in Beijing and Xi'an, China on June 28-July 23, 2010
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.
Sixth Annual eLaw Summer Institute (eLaw)
will be held in Cork, Ireland on July 5-July 23, 2010
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.
We look forward to you joining us for our upcoming 2010 Summer Programs in New Hampshire, China, Ireland, and Washington D.C.
Sincerely,
Debra A. Beauregard
Director of Graduate Programs
Contact us
The latest information regarding all of our Summer Programs will be listed on the website. If you have any questions, please contact us.
Franklin Pierce Law Center
2 White Street
Concord, NH 03301
Summer Programs Office: summerprograms@piercelaw.edu
Alyson Fava: afava@piercelaw.edu
Phone: (603) 513-5284
Fax: (603) 224-3342