Qualifications & Positions
Profile Paul J. Heald joined Georgia Law in 1989 and, 10 years later, became the youngest faculty member in the law school's history to be named to a chaired position, the Allen Post Professorship. Recent scholarship includes: "Property Rights and the Efficient Exploitation of Copyrighted Works: An Empirical Analysis of Public Domain and Copyrighted Fiction Best Sellers," in Minn. L. Rev. (2007); "The Problem of Social Cost in a Genetically Modified Age" in the Hastings Law Journal (2006), "A Transaction Costs Theory of Patent Law" in the Ohio State Law Journal (2005), "American Corporate Copyright: A Brilliant, Uncoordinated Plan" in the Journal of Intellectual Property Law (2005), "Mowing the Playing Field: Addressing Information Distortion and Assymetry in the TRIPS Game" in the Minnesota Law Review (2003), "Random Walks, Non-cooperative Games, and the Complex Mathematics of Patent Pricing" in the Rutgers Law Review (2003) (with R.F. Denton). Heald also wrote Literature and Legal Problem Solving: Law and Literature as Ethical Discourse (1998), a book to which he contributed and served as editor, and completed his first novel, No Regrets in 2003 (St. James Music Press). Heald has lectured frequently at scholarly conferences in England, Greece, Japan, Switzerland, and the US. He has taught in the University of Georgia's London Law Consortium and its China summer program, and has also served as a visiting professor at the University of Regensburg in Germany, the Université de Lyon in France, the Innsbruck Summer School, the University of Texas, Vanderbilt University and at the University of Chicago School of Law. He will be administering the Unversity of Georgia's Oxford program in the spring of 2009. Heald will be visiting CIPPM in spring 2008 and 2009. | |||||
