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BACKGROUND
Joseph P. Liu joined the BCLS faculty in 2001. He had been an assistant professor at U.C. Hastings College of Law since 1999. He has served 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. EDUCATION Presentations: “Two-Factor Fair Use?,” Fair Use: Incredibly Shrinking or Extraordinarily Expanding?, Columbia Law School (February 8, 2008) “Issues and Controversies in Copyright Law: Digital Rights Management and the DMCA,” MCLE IP Conference, Boston, MA (June 13, 2007) (keynote address) “Trademark Dilution and the TDRA,” AIPLA Spring Meeting, Boston, MA (May 11, 2007) “Consumer Protection: Inside Copyright Law or Outside?,” Copyright, DRM Technologies, and Consumer Protection, U.C. Berkeley Boalt Hall (March 10, 2007) “The Copyright Treaties and Digital Rights Management,” Law Technology & Arts Symposium, Case Western Reserve Law School (November 10, 2006) “Copyright and Breathing Space,” Constitutional Challenges to Copyright, Columbia Law School (October 27, 2006 “The Legal Framework Surrounding Digital Rights Management Technologies,” IASTED Conference on Law and Technology, MIT (October 9, 2006) “Copyright and Consumer Enabling Technologies,” Chicago IP Colloquium (February 21, 2006) “Google Book Search,” Boston Bar Association, Committees on Intellectual Property and Art Law (Jan. 27, 2006) “Bowdlerization, Copyright, and Consumer Theory”, Faculty Workshop, St. John’s University Law School (October 3, 2005) “Creating a Competitive Advantage with Intellectual Property,” Emerging Enterprises Program, Boston College Law School (April 27, 2005) (panel moderator) “Making Your Move and Choosing Your Path,” Asian American Lawyers Assoc. of Massachusetts Annual Conference, Boston, MA (April 23, 2005) “Regulatory Copyright,” Intellectual Property Speakers Series, Cardozo Law School (Feb. 7, 2005) “Regulatory Copyright,” Faculty Workshop, University of San Francisco Law School (Jan. 26, 2005) “Thoughts on Skylink, Lexmark, and the DMCA,” Boston Bar Association, Committees on Computer Law and Intellectual Property (Nov. 2, 2004) Activities: Member of the executive committee of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Intellectual Property Law in 2004. Attended the Second Joint Conference of the Asian Pacific American Law Faculty and the Western Regional Law Teachers of Color, Seattle, Washington, in March. With Alfred Yen, planned and organized the symposium, "Intellectual Property, E-Commerce, and the Internet," at BC Law in October. Provided pro bono consulting to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, San Francisco, California. Successfully represented an MIT graduate student in negotiations with Microsoft over publication of an academic encryption research paper. Appointments: Appointed visiting professor at Boston University School of Law for Fall 2004. COURSES Fall '07: No courses taught
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