Prof. Craig Nard

Galen J. Roush Professor of Law and Director of the Spangenberg Center for Law, Technology & the Arts at Case Western Reserve University School of Law. He is also a Senior Lecturer at the World Intellectual Property Organization Academy in Torino, Italy and Visiting Professor at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. He is widely published in the area of patent law, with scholarly articles appearing in many of the most prominent law journals, including Georgetown Law Journal, Northwestern Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, Supreme Court Economic Review and the Review of Law and Economics. Professor Nard is also the author of a leading patent law casebook, The Law of Patents (5th ed. Wolters Kluwer). Prior to entering the legal academy, he clerked for the Honorable Giles S. Rich and Helen W. Nies of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C. and, before that, was the Julius Silver Fellow in law and technology at Columbia University School of Law. In 2014-15, Professor Nard was voted “Professor of the Year” by the First-Year law school class and, in 2019, received the law school alumni’s “Distinguished Teacher Award.”