Washington University School of Law, St. Louis
Charles R. McManis, Thomas and Karole Green Professor of Law, and Director of the Intellectual Property & Technology Law Program at Washington University, is active nationally and internationally in the area of intellectual property law. He earned an undergraduate degree from Birmingham-Southern College in 1964, and both his M.A. (in Philosophy) and J.D. degrees from Duke University in 1972, where he was a Duke Scholar and NDEA Fellow. Following his graduation from law school, McManis served as law clerk to the late Hon. Frank M. Johnson, then Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, was appointed to the law faculty at the University of Georgia, and taught at Vanderbilt University School of Law and the Louisiana State University Law Center before joining the law faculty at Washington University in 1978.
Professor McManis has been a frequent visiting lecturer and paper presenter at universities and academic conferences throughout the United States, Asia, Europe, and in South America. During 1993 and 1994, Professor McManis was Fulbright Fellow in Korea, where he lectured and did research at the International Intellectual Property Training Institute in Taejon. He was an exchange professor at Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea, in 1997 and at Sichuan University in Chengdu, China in 1989. Over the past 10 years, he has been a frequent visiting lecturer at Aoyama Gakuin University College of Law, Nihon University College of Law and Economics and at the Japan Institute for International Business Law, and has served as a consultant for the World Intellectual Property Organization, in India and Korea, and in 2002 presented a paper at a Joint WIPO/UPOV Symposium, on the Co-existence of Patents and Plant Breeders’ Rights, in Geneva, Switzerland.
Professor McManis’ book, Intellectual Property & Unfair Competition in a Nutshell, is now in its fifth edition. He is also co-author of Licensing Intellectual Property in the Information Age, the second edition of which was published in 2005 by Carolina Academic Press. In 2001, McManis was awarded the Washington University School of Law Alumni Association Distinguished Teaching Award and the law students also named him Teacher of the Year. In April 2002, he co-chaired the Conference on Patenting Genetic Products presented by the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies at the School of Law and the Genome Sequencing Center at the School of Medicine, which was a part of Washington University’s series on Law and the Human Genome Project. In April 2003, he chaired an academic conference, entitled “Biodiversity, Biotechnology, and the Legal Protection of Traditional Knowledge,” papers from which he is now editing for publication by Earthscan/James & James, under the title, Biodiversity and the Law: Intellectual Property, Biotechnology and Traditional Knowledge.
In 2004, McManis became the Director of the law school’s new Center for Research on Innovation & Entrepreneurship, and helped establish a new Intellectual Property & Business Formation Legal Clinic at Washington University, both of which are being initially funded by a generous grant to Washington University by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
Professor McManis has been a frequent visiting lecturer and paper presenter at universities and academic conferences throughout the United States, Asia, Europe, and in South America. During 1993 and 1994, Professor McManis was Fulbright Fellow in Korea, where he lectured and did research at the International Intellectual Property Training Institute in Taejon. He was an exchange professor at Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea, in 1997 and at Sichuan University in Chengdu, China in 1989. Over the past 10 years, he has been a frequent visiting lecturer at Aoyama Gakuin University College of Law, Nihon University College of Law and Economics and at the Japan Institute for International Business Law, and has served as a consultant for the World Intellectual Property Organization, in India and Korea, and in 2002 presented a paper at a Joint WIPO/UPOV Symposium, on the Co-existence of Patents and Plant Breeders’ Rights, in Geneva, Switzerland.
Professor McManis’ book, Intellectual Property & Unfair Competition in a Nutshell, is now in its fifth edition. He is also co-author of Licensing Intellectual Property in the Information Age, the second edition of which was published in 2005 by Carolina Academic Press. In 2001, McManis was awarded the Washington University School of Law Alumni Association Distinguished Teaching Award and the law students also named him Teacher of the Year. In April 2002, he co-chaired the Conference on Patenting Genetic Products presented by the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies at the School of Law and the Genome Sequencing Center at the School of Medicine, which was a part of Washington University’s series on Law and the Human Genome Project. In April 2003, he chaired an academic conference, entitled “Biodiversity, Biotechnology, and the Legal Protection of Traditional Knowledge,” papers from which he is now editing for publication by Earthscan/James & James, under the title, Biodiversity and the Law: Intellectual Property, Biotechnology and Traditional Knowledge.
In 2004, McManis became the Director of the law school’s new Center for Research on Innovation & Entrepreneurship, and helped establish a new Intellectual Property & Business Formation Legal Clinic at Washington University, both of which are being initially funded by a generous grant to Washington University by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.