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FACULTY
EXCELLENCE
Michigan State University-DCL College of Law (MSU-DCL) attracted five of the nation’s most qualified academics to teach and conduct scholarship, beginning in Fall 2003.
These new faculty members joined the ranks of MSU-DCL’s already impressive roster of law professors, bringing the full-time faculty list to 38 members.
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Paul G. Arshagouni
Assistant Professor of Law
BA, magna cum laude 1984,
University of California Los Angeles
MD, 1988, University of California
Irvine, College of Medicine
MPH, 1994, University of California
Los Angeles, School of Public
Health
JD, 1999, University of California
Los Angeles, School of Law |
Paul G. Arshagouni joined the Michigan State University-DCL College of Law faculty in Fall 2003 as an assistant professor and director of the law college’s Health Law Program. He most recently was an assistant research professor at the University of Houston Law Center’s Health Law & Policy Institute, researching various legal and policy issues related to health care. Prior to this position, he was an associate with the Health Care Practice group at Sidley Austin Brown & Wood in Los Angeles, California. He also served as an associate in the Health Care Department of Foley & Lardner, also in Los Angeles. Professor Arshagouni had a distinguished career in medicine before entering the legal profession. He served as a physician and assistant clinical professor of pediatrics at the University of California, Irvine, College of Medicine. He was also director of pediatrics at a community clinic. At MSU-DCL, Professor Arshagouni teaches contracts and public health law, and directs the health law curriculum.
RECENT PUBLICATION
Jerry-Building the Road to the Future: An Evaluation of the White Commission Report on Structural Alternatives for Federal Courts of Appeals, San Diego Law Review (1999) (with Joseph Akrotirianakis & Zareh Jaltorossian)
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Mary A. Bedikian
Professor of Law in Residence and Director, MSU-DCL Alternative Dispute Resolution Program
BA, 1971, Wayne State University
MA, 1975, Wayne State University
JD, 1980, MSU-DCL College of Law
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Mary A. Bedikian most recently served as the district vice president of the American Arbitration Association (AAA)-Detroit Regional Office, an organization for which she worked for 28 years. The office provides arbitration and mediation services, education and training programs, election services and alternative dispute resolution (ADR) consulting. A frequent lecturer, Professor Bedikian made presentations in ADR to hundreds of neutrals and attorneys each year. In addition to her lecture activities, she is well published. In 1988, she won first prize in the Sixth Annual National Labor Law Writing Competition sponsored by MSU-DCL. In recognition of her outstanding career, Professor Bedikian received the 1999 Distinguished Service Award in Recognition of Significant Contributions to the Field of Dispute Resolution from the State Bar of Michigan Alternative Dispute Resolution Section. As director of the law college’s new ADR program, Professor Bedikian focuses her initiatives in three principal areas: developing a core curriculum in ADR for MSU-DCL students; providing mediation, facilitation, negotiation and conflict management training; and offering professional ADR consulting services.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Employment ADR: Current Issues and Methods of Implementation, The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel (Dec. 2001)
Alternative Dispute Resolution, The Hon. Richard A. Enslen, Pamela C. Enslen, and Mary A. Bedikian (West Group, 1998)
De-mystifying Securities ADR: Reform and Resurgence after McMahon, Michigan Bar Journal (Feb. 1997)
Attorneys’ Fees in Arbitration, Currents, American Arbitration Association (Vol. 2, No. 3, Summer 1997)
Sanctions in Arbitration and Mediation, The American Lawyer’s Corporate Counsel Magazine (Dec. 1997)
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Donald E. Laverdure
Assistant Professor of Law
BS in Civil Engineering, 1995,
University of Arizona
JD, 1999, University of Wisconsin
Law School
LLM, 2003, University of Wisconsin
Law School |
Donald Laverdure joined the Michigan State University-DCL College of Law faculty as an assistant professor in Fall 2003 and assists MSU-DCL in recruiting indigenous students. He was previously a lecturer in law and William H. Hastie Fellow at the University of Wisconsin Law School, teaching Federal Law & Indian Tribes and serving as acting director of the Great Lakes Indian Law Center. In July 2002, Professor Laverdure was appointed and confirmed as chief judge of the Crow Court of Appeals. From 1999-2001, he was an associate with two law firms in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he specialized in tax planning and controversy matters on behalf of business clients in addition to serving as general and special counsel to Indian tribes and tribal entities. In addition to various professional speaking engagements regarding laws affecting Indian tribes, Professor Laverdure, in Fall 2000, participated in President Clinton’s White House Initiative on Tribal Colleges & Universities. He also served as Native American liaison to the Wisconsin State Bar Board of Governors and secretary of the Wisconsin State Bar’s Indian Law Section. Professor Laverdure is an enrolled citizen of the Crow Tribe and has a tribal affiliation with the Little Shell Chippewa. He teaches Federal Law & Indian Tribes.
RECENT ARTICLE
“Going Home”: A Symposium on the Return of Removed Indigenous Peoples—Is Tribal Sovereignty Transportable Across State Lines, Syracuse Journal of International Law and Commerce (Fall 2003)
FORTHCOMING ARTICLE
Brown v. Board of Education Revisited, 50th Anniversary Symposium—A First Nations Perspective, Washburn Law Journal (forthcoming Spring 2004)
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Adam Mossoff
Assistant Professor of Law
BA with High Honors, 1993,
University of Michigan
MA, 1998, Columbia University
JD with Honors, 2001, University of
Chicago Law School |
Adam Mossoff joined the Michigan State University-DCL College of Law faculty as an assistant professor in Fall 2003. He previously clerked for the Hon. Jacques L. Wiener, Jr., U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. He also has served as a law fellow and visiting lecturer at Northwestern University School of Law. Professor Mossoff graduated from the University of Chicago Law School with honors in 2001. Prior to law school, he received both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in philosophy, specializing in legal and political philosophy. Professor Mossoff has published numerous law review articles and book reviews. At MSU-DCL he teaches Property, Estates & Trusts and intellectual property courses.
FORTHCOMING BOOK CHAPTER
Is Copyright Property? Comment on Richard Epstein’s Liberty vs. Property, publication by the Progress & Freedom Foundation (forthcoming 2004)
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
What Is Property? Putting the Pieces Back Together, Arizona Law Review (2003)
Locke’s Labor Lost, University of Chicago Law School Roundtable (2002)
Rethinking the Development of Patents: An Intellectual History, 1550-1800, Hastings Law Journal (2001)
Comment, Review of Kristie M. McClure’s Judging Rights: Lockean Politics and the Limits of Consent, Review of Metaphysics (March 2000)
Comment, Review of Michel Rosenfeld’s Just Interpretations: Law between Ethics and Politics, Review of Metaphysics (Sept. 1999)
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Peter K. Yu
Assistant Professor of Law and Director, Intellectual Property & Communications Law Program
BA, 1996, University of Wisconsin-
Madison
JD cum laude, 1999, Benjamin N.
Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva
University
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Peter K. Yu is a leading expert in international intellectual property and communications law. In addition to his MSU-DCL appointment, he is a faculty associate of the Quello Center for Telecommunication Management & Law in the MSU College of Communication Arts & Sciences. He is also a research associate of the Programme in Comparative Media Law & Policy at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford.
Professor Yu sits on the editorial boards of GigaLaw.com and the Journal of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A. and served on the Board of Directors of the Asian American Bar Association of New York. He is a frequent columnist for FindLaw, GigaLaw.com, and IP Law & Business, and his commentary and research have appeared on ABC News, Fox News, CNN.com, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Detroit News, Forbes.com, and CNET Radio.
Prior to joining Michigan State University, he was an acting assistant professor of law, the executive director of the Intellectual Property Law Program, and the deputy director of the Howard M. Squadron Program in Law, Media & Society at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, where he taught immediately after graduation. While in law school, he was the executive editor of the Cardozo Law Review, the managing editor of the Post-Soviet Media Law & Policy Newsletter, and an assistant editor of the Cardozo Studies in Law & Literature (now Law and Literature). He is a member of the Order of Coif. At MSU-DCL he teaches a variety of intellectual property and communication law courses.
RECENT BOOKS
Extending Mickey’s Life: Eldred v. Ashcroft and the Copyright Term Extension Debate (Kluwer Law International 2003) (editor)
The Marketplace of Ideas: Twenty Years of Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal (Kluwer Law International 2002) (editor)
Russian Media Law and Policy in the Yeltsin Decade: Essays and Documents (Kluwer Law International 2002) (co-edited with Monroe E. Price and Andrei Richter)
FORTHCOMING BOOKS
Traditional Knowledge, Intellectual Property, and Indigenous Culture (Kluwer Law International, forthcoming 2004)
International Intellectual Property Law, Policy & Practice (Carolina Academic Press, forthcoming 2005) (casebook)
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
The Copyright Divide, Cardozo Law Review (2003)
Symposium, China and the WTO: Progress, Perils, and Prospects, Columbia Journal of Asian Law (2003)
The Escalating Copyright Wars, Michigan State University-DCL College of Law Occasional Papers in Intellectual Property and Communications Law No. 1, 2003. Also published in Hofstra Law Review (2003)
Four Common Misconceptions About Copyright Piracy, Loyola Los Angeles International & Comparative Law Review (2003)
SARS and the Patent Race: An Introduction to the “Patent Law, Social Policy, and Public Interest” Symposium, Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal (2003)
Annual Survey of WIPO Internet Domain Name Decisions: Foreword, Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution (2003)
Dis-networking Rules in a Networked World, STS Nexus, Summer 2003 (Supp.)
Traditional Knowledge, Intellectual Property, and Indigenous Culture: An Introduction, Cardozo Journal of International & Comparative Law (2003)
Symposium, Protection for Traditional Knowledge, in International Intellectual Property Law & Policy (Hugh C. Hansen, ed., 2003)
An Action Plan to Reinvent U.S.-China Intellectual Property Policy, in Commentaries on Law and Public Policy: 2002 Yearbook (Robert W. McGee, ed., 2003)
The Harmonization Game: What Basketball Can Teach About Intellectual Property and International Trade, Fordham International Law Journal (2003)
The Second Coming of Intellectual Property Rights in China (Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Occasional Papers in Intellectual Property No. 11, 2002), also available in International Intellectual Property Law & Policy (Hugh C. Hansen, ed., 2003)
World Trade, Intellectual Property, and the Global Elites: An Introduction, Cardozo Journal of International & Comparative Law (2002)
Toward a Nonzero-sum Approach to Resolving Global Intellectual Property Disputes: What We Can Learn from Mediators, Business Strategists, and International Relations Theorists, University of Cincinnati Law Review (2002)
Bridging the Digital Divide: Equality in the Information Age, Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal (2002)
Piracy, Prejudice, and Perspectives: Using Shakespeare to Reconfigure the U.S.-China Intellectual Property Debate, Boston University International Law Journal (2001), reprinted in Terry Halbert & Elaine Ingulli, Law and Ethics in the Business Environment (4th ed., 2002)
From Pirates to Partners: Protecting Intellectual Property in China in the Twenty-first Century, American University Law Review (2000)
FORTHCOMING ARTICLES
Symposium, World Intellectual Property Organization and the European Union, in International Intellectual Property Law & Policy (Hugh C. Hansen, ed., forthcoming 2004)
The Origins of ccTLD Lawmaking, Cardozo Journal of International & Comparative Law (forthcoming 2004)
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