London Summer International IP Institute
Faculty and Directors
Jeffery Atik
Professor of Law and Sayre Macneil Fellow, Loyola Law School
AB with Distinction, University of California Berkeley
JD, Yale Law School
PhD cum laude por unanimidad, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Jeffery Atik writes on international finance, international trade, international intellectual property and regulatory competition issues involving NAFTA, the European Union and the WTO. Prior to joining the Loyola faculty in 2001, Atik was Professor of Law at Suffolk University Law School in Boston. He has also taught at Berkeley (Boalt Hall), Boston College, Indiana-Bloomington, UCLA, Washington-St. Louis and The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Atik is a member of the United States’ NAFTA Chapter 19 roster and has served on three NAFTA binational panels reviewing antidumping cases, including the review in Softwood Lumber from Canada. He practiced law with Shearman & Sterling (New York); Testa Hurwitz (Boston); and Brown & Dobson (Milan). He is a member of the New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Missouri bars.
Courses: International Banking & Finance, International Law, International Trade, International Intellectual Property/TRIPS
F. Jay Dougherty
Professor of Law
BA, magna cum laude, Yale College
JD, Columbia University Law School
During law school Jay Dougherty was a Harlan Fiske Stone scholar, a staff member of the Columbia Law Review and editor of the Columbia Journal of Arts & the Law. His legal career began in the Entertainment Department of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York, where his work included representation of Broadway composers and authors. His interest in the motion picture area led to positions at the Motion Picture/Television/Music Departments of Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp, the legal departments at United Artists Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and the Business Affairs Department of Morgan Creek Productions. After a corporate takeover of MGM, Dougherty moved to the Legal Department of Twentieth Century Fox, where he became senior vice president of production and worldwide acquisition legal affairs. Before joining the Loyola faculty, Dougherty served as assistant general counsel for Turner Broadcasting System, responsible for Turner Pictures. He also taught as an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California Law Center for ten years.
Karl M. Manheim
Professor of Law
SB, magna cum laude, Bradley University
JD, Northeastern University
LLM, Harvard Law School
Karl Manheim is the Loyola director of the Program for Law & Technology at the California Institute of Technology and Loyola Law School. For 2007, Manheim was on assignment to the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property, where he helped craft the Patent Reform Act of 2008 and related legislation, including U.S. compliance with TRIPs and the Paris Convention. He began teaching at Loyola in 1975; was in government practice from 1980-84; and returned to Loyola in 1984. He has also taught at the University of Southern California Law School (1996) and at the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing, China (1992). Manheim was admitted to the Patent Bar in 1980 and is co-founder and a Director of a biotechnology company (San Francisco and Mysore, India). He has litigated cases at every level of state and federal courts, including the Supreme Court. Manheim writes on technology issues, intellectual property and constitutional law.
Peter Tiersma
Professor of Law and Joseph Scott Fellow
Director of International Programs
BA, with distinction, Stanford University, Phi Beta Kappa
JD, University of California Berkeley, Order of the Coif
PhD, University of California San Diego
Peter Tiersma was born in the Netherlands and immigrated with his parents to the United States. Following graduation from Stanford University, he was a Fulbright Fellow to the Netherlands and later received a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of California, San Diego. Subsequently, he obtained a J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California in Berkeley. He clerked for Justice Stanley Mosk of the California Supreme Court, worked in private practice for three years, and has been teaching at Loyola Law School since 1990. Tiersma is the author of the books Frisian Reference Grammar (Fryske Akademy, 1999), Legal Language (University of Chicago Press, 1999), and Speaking of Crime: The Language of Criminal Justice (co-authored with Lawrence Solan, University of Chicago Press, 2005). He has written several articles on the relationship between language and law. Tiersma has also lectured widely on these topics, most recently in Germany and China.