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Mark D. Janis
Patricia Nassif Acton Mark
D. Janis Professor Janis
joined the Iowa law faculty in 1995 after six years in private practice
with Barnes & Thornburg in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he specialized
in patent prosecution and litigation. In 1999, he was promoted to
full professor. Professor Janis teaches courses in patents, trademarks/unfair
competition, copyright, and property, as well as a seminar on advanced
problems in intellectual property. His scholarly research focuses
on patent and trademark law. Professor Janis is a member of the
Indiana bar and is registered to practice before the United States
Patent and Trademark Office. Christina
Bohannan Professor Bohannan
joined the Iowa Law faculty as a visiting professor in January 2000.
Prior to joining the faculty, she attended the University of Florida
where she was Editor-in-Chief of the Florida Law Review and Order
of the Coif. She also clerked for Judge Ed Carnes on the Eleventh
Circuit Court of Appeals. Professor Bohannan teaches courses including
Copyright, Conflict of Laws, Torts, and a seminar on Intellectual
Property and the Constitution. She has recently published an article
in Fordham Law Review on the abrogation of sovereign immunity from
intellectual property claims. She is currently working on an article
dealing with federal incentives for encouraging states to waive
their sovereign immunity. Patricia
Nassif Acton Professor Acton
joined the Iowa law faculty in 1981. Before doing so, she practiced
law for several years in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and was a Bigelow Teaching
Fellow and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School.
At Iowa, she has taught Clinical Law, Commercial Transactions, Entertainment
Law, Trusts and Estates, and the Legal History of Iowa. She also
has taught as a visiting professor at the University of Florida
School of Law. Since 1993, Professor Acton has served as the on-site
director of the London Law Consortium, a study abroad program for
students from seven American law schools. When in London, she teaches
Arts and Entertainment Law from a comparative perspective and supervises
students in the Consortium's British Legal Externship program. Professor
Acton is the author of numerous books and articles, including Invasion
of Privacy: The Cross Creek Trial of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and
(with Richard, Lord Acton) To Go Free: A Treasury of Iowa's Legal
Heritage (Benjamin F. Shambaugh Award, 1996, State Historical Society
of Iowa). She is a member of the Iowa and American Bar Associations. Randall
P. Bezanson Following his
graduation from the Iowa Law School, Professor Bezanson served as
a clerk to Judge Robb of the United States Court of Appeals for
the D.C. Circuit and, during the 1972 term (1972-73), as a clerk
to Justice Harry A. Blackmun of the United States Supreme Court.
Following his clerkship with Justice Blackmun, Professor Bezanson
joined the faculty of the Iowa Law School, where he remained until
1988, serving also as a vice president of The University of Iowa
from 1979-84. In 1988 Professor Bezanson moved to Virginia to become
Dean of the Washington & Lee University School of Law. He served
as Dean of W & L from 1988 to 1994, returning to the Iowa faculty
in the fall of 1996. Professor Bezanson's teaching centers on constitutional
law, freedom of speech and press, and mass communication law, but
he also teaches in the fields of administrative law, law and medicine,
law and journalism, and torts. He presently teaches Constitutional
Law, Mass Communication Law, and a First Amendment Seminar. Herb
Hovenkamp Professor Hovenkamp
joined the Iowa law faculty in 1986. Before coming to Iowa, Professor
Hovenkamp was Professor of Law at the University of California,
Hastings College of the Law, and prior to that he was Instructor,
Department of History and American Civilization, University of Texas.
He has taught Antitrust, Antitrust & Economics, Law in American
History, and Real Property. He has been the Rockefeller Foundation
Fellow, Harvard Law School; Fellow of the American Council of Learned
Societies, Harvard Law School; Faculty Scholar, University of Iowa;
Presidential Lecturer, University of Iowa; and has been the recipient
of the University of Iowa Collegiate Teaching Award. Professor Hovenkamp's
publication include some 60 articles and approximately 50 essays
and book reviews, as well as a dozen books. Of these, Enterprise
and American Law, 1800-1860 (1991) received the Littleton-Griswold
Prize of the Ameican Historical Association; and Science and Religion
in America: 1800-1860 (1978) received the Choice Award. He is the
senior surviving author of Antitrust Law (formerly with Phillip
Areeda & Donald Turner, currently 16 volumes and counting), which
he hopes to finish by the year 2000. Nicholas
Johnson Following law
school, where Professor Johnson was Order of the Coif and the articles
editor of the Texas Law Review, he clerked for both Judge John R.
Brown, U.S. Court of Appeals, and Justice Hugo L. Black, United
States Supreme Court. After the clerkships, his first teaching appointment
was at the University of California Law School (Boalt Hall), Berkeley.
He subsequently was an associate at the Washington, DC law firm
of Covington & Burling, from which he was appointed by President
Lyndon B. Johnson (no relation) to be the U.S. Maritime Administrator.
He is perhaps best known for his tumultuous seven-year term as a
Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission (1966-1973),
during which, among other things, he was featured on the cover of
Rolling Stone magazine and published How to Talk Back to Your Television
Set. Professor Johnson has taught at a number of law schools (and
communications studies departments), published widely in law reviews
and general publications, and has taught law school courses ranging
from administrative law, agency and partnership, constitutional
law, and corporations to mass communications law and oil and gas
law. His present teaching emphasis is on communications law in his
courses The Law of Electronic Media and Cyberspace Law Seminar.
Since his F.C.C. term, Professor Johnson has run for Congress from
Iowa, headed a Washington-based media reform group, and hosted a
network TV program on PBS. He continues an active national and international
public lecture business, serves on the boards of a number of non-profit
organizations and is serving a 1998-2001 term as a member of the
Iowa City Community School District school board.
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