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 Peter
K. Yu (余家明)
holds the
Kern Family Chair in Intellectual Property Law and is the founding
director of the Intellectual Property Law Center at Drake University
Law School. He is also a Wenlan Scholar Chair Professor at Zhongnan University of
Economics and Law in Wuhan, China. In the summers, he serves as Visiting Professor of
Law at the University of
Hong Kong Faculty of Law. Before joining Drake University, he founded
the nationally-renowned
Intellectual Property & Communications Law Program at Michigan State
University, at which he
held faculty appointments in law, communication arts and sciences, and Asian
studies.
Born and raised in Hong Kong, Professor Yu is a leading expert in
international intellectual property and communications law. He
writes and lectures extensively on international trade, international
and comparative law and the transition of the legal systems in China
and Hong Kong. A prolific scholar and an award-winning teacher, he is the author or editor of three books and more than
50 law review articles and book
chapters. His latest publications include a four-volume
reference book set entitled Intellectual Property and Information
Wealth: Issues and Practices in the Digital Age (Praeger Publishers
2007).
Professor Yu has spoken at events organized by the World Intellectual
Property Organization, the International Telecommunication Union, the
U.N. Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the U.N.
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the Chinese, Hong
Kong and U.S. governments and at leading research institutions from
around the world. His lectures and presentations have spanned
more than fifteen countries on five continents, and he is a frequent commentator
in the national and international media. His publications, which
have been translated into Chinese, Croatian and Japanese, are
available on his website at www.peteryu.com.
He lives in Des Moines, Iowa and Hong Kong.
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