4/26/01--Boston College Law School is pleased to announce three recent additions to its full-time faculty, Frank Garcia, Joseph Liu and Carwina Weng.

Frank J. Garcia has been an associate professor at the Florida State University College of Law since 1993. He has served as a Visiting Professor at the University of the Republic in Uruguay, as Visiting Professor at the University of Houston Law Center and as the Katherine A. Ryan Distinguished Visiting Professor at the St. Mary’s University School of Law/University of Innsbruck, Austria.

Professor Garcia received his B.A. in Religious Studies from Reed College in 1985, and his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1989. He was a law clerk for Andrews & Kurth in Texas and Davis Wright Tremaine in Oregon , and an associate in the Oregon firm Stoel Rives Boley Jones & Grey from 1990-1993.

Professor Garcia was a Fulbright Scholar, as well as a professorial fellow at the Law Institute of the Americas, SMU School of Law, and is Associate Director at the Caribbean Law Institute, FSU College of Law. He has served on the Executive Board and as Vice-Chair of the ASIL International Economic Law Interest Group, and as faculty advisor for the Journal of Transnational Law and Policy and the International Law Society at FSU College of Law.

Joseph P. Liu has been an assistant professor at U.C. Hastings College of Law since 1999. He currently serves as Vice President and General Counsel at BuyerZone.com, a business-to-business Internet start-up company. He also served as a Climenko Teaching Fellow in the Lawyering Program at Harvard Law School from 1997-1998.

Professor Liu was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. He received his B.A. in Physics and Philosophy in 1989 from Yale University, and his J.D. in 1994 from Columbia Law School, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Columbia Law Review. After law school, he clerked for Judge Levin H. Campbell, U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Following his clerkship, Professor Liu worked as a litigator at Foley, Hoag & Eliot in Boston, Massachusetts, where his practice consisted of intellectual property litigation, securities litigation, and white collar criminal defense.

Professor Liu’s primary teaching and research interests include intellectual property, property, law and the Internet, contracts, and Internet regulation.

Carwina Weng will be joining the BCLS faculty as a clinical professor at the Legal Assistance Bureau in Waltham. She has worked as a staff attorney at Greater Boston Legal Services since 1999, where she worked with domestic violence programs at six area hospitals, supervised a divorce work group and represented victims of domestic violence in abuse prevention and family law litigation.

Professor Weng received her B.A. from Yale University, and her J.D. from NYU. She served as an assistant professor at the Florida Coastal School of Law from 1996-1999, where she taught contracts, civil procedure and legal research and writing and served as Co-Director of the McCalla Children and Family Advocacy Center. She also worked as a staff attorney in the Legal Aid Society Community Law Offices in New York City from 1990-1996, and served as the Chair of the Board of Directors of the New York Asian Women’s Center from 1993-1996.

Professor Weng has received the Legal Aid Society Award for pro bono services, as well as the Skadden Public Interest Fellowship. She is a member of the Asian American Lawyers Association of Massachusetts, and the Association of Legal Writing Directors.