International Trade Law & Intellectual
Property Law
An outreach workshop for Attorneys, Policy Makers, State Agencies,
Civil Society Groups and
Other Interested Groups and Individuals
Wednesday, May 16, 2007,
Lubar Commons (7200 Law), UW Law School
CLE credit for Wisconsin attorneys pending
Sponsors
Global Legal Studies Center, UW Law School
Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE)
Co-sponsors
International Practice Section, Wisconsin Bar
Intellectual Property Law Section, Wisconsin Bar (pending)
This is part of a series of workshops on Global Legal
Issues on the theme:
“When Global Society Meets Local Society: The Impact of Globalization on
National Law”
Outreach Workshop on International Trade Law & Intellectual Property
Law
Lubar Commons (7200 Law), UW Law School
Agenda
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
2:45-3:00
Registration
3:00-3:05
Welcome
Professor Heinz Klug
Professor of law, UW Law School & Director, Global Legal Studies
Center
3:05-3:25
“International Trade and Development”
Professor David Trubek
Voss-Bascom Professor of Law, UW Law School &
Senior Fellow, Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy
(WAGE), UW-Madison
3:25-4:15
“International Trade Law: Its Use, Abuse and Misuse”
Professor Colin Picker
Associate Professor of Law, University of Missouri-Kansas
City School of Law
4:15 - 4:30
Q&A Session
4:30 – 4:50
“Practicing International Trade Law from Wisconsin”
Erik Ibele, Attorney
Neider & Boucher, S.C., Attorneys & Counselors, Madison
4:50 – 5:15
“Intellectual Property Issues: Case Study of China”
Elisabeth Townsend Bridge, Attorney
Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek, Milwaukee
5:10 – 5:30
Q&A Session
5:30 – 6:00
Reception
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Biography of Speakers
Elisabeth Townsend Bridge is a shareholder in the Milwaukee office of Whyte Hirschboeck
Dudek. She has more than 25 years of experience in the area of trademarks and copyrights and
brings an impressive intellectual property practice to WHD. She has also taken extensive
engineering and science courses and has been registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and
Trademark Office for more than 12 years. Ms. Bridge’s practice includes copyright, unfair
competition, advertising and licensing law and related litigation in addition to trademark and
patent work. She received a J.D., Degree cum laude from University of Nebraska College of Law
where she was the Editor of the Nebraska Law Review, and a B.A. Degree in American History
from the Purdue University. She is the past President of the Wisconsin Intellectual Property
Law Association, of the Wisconsin Bar, and a member of the American Bar Association and of
the IP section of the International Trademark Association. She is registered to practice before
the US Patent and Trademark Office.
Erik Ibele joined Neider & Boucher, S.C., Attorneys & Counselors, Madison in 1981 and his areas
of expertise include Business Transactions, Intellectual Property and Immigration. He focuses on
Copyright and Trademark, Software and Technology Licensing, International Transactions and
Business Immigration. He teaches International Trade Law at UW Law School as an adjunct
professor. He has a J.D. Degree from University of Wisconsin Law School and carried out
Graduate Study in Law, at the University of Bonn, Germany (Comparative Law and Private
International Law). He also has a B.A. in Political Science from the Lawrence University.
He has served on the U. S. Peace Corps in Afghanistan (1973-75) and speaks German and
Pushtu. He considers teaching at UW Law School his “proudest professional achievement” and
pro bono representation of clients seeking political asylum in the U.S. his “proudest community
accomplishment.”
Colin Picker is an Associate Professor of Law at University of Missouri-Kansas City School of
Law and has an A.B. Degree (summa cum laude) from Bowdoin College, Maine, and a J.D.
Degree from Yale Law School. Following law school, he clerked for the Honorable José A.
Cabranes of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. In addition, during his final year
at law school and during his judicial clerkship, he was also an assistant to the first state-to-state
NAFTA arbitration panel (U.S. v. Canada).
Following his clerkship, from 1997 to 2000, he was an associate attorney in the International
Group of the Washington, D.C., law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering. His practice included
international litigation, international transactions and congressional policy work. He was
admitted to the Maryland Bar in 1997, the District of Columbia Bar in 1998, and the Court of
International Trade in 1998.
Professor Picker has published widely in the area of International Trade/International Economic
Law as well as in the areas of International Law and in Comparative Law. Professor Picker is
active in the International Economic Law Group of the American Society of International Law
(Co-Chair 2005-2007), and in the American Society of Comparative Law (Chair of the Young
Comparativists Committee), and is a member of the Board of Editors of the American Journal of
Comparative Law. He is also a Salzburg Seminar Fellow. Professor Picker teaches or has taught:
U.S. Constitutional Law (Powers and Structures); International Law; International Business
Transactions; Comparative Law; International Trade and Finance; International Human Rights;
and Conflicts of Law (Private International Law).
David M. Trubek is Voss-Bascom Professor of Law at UW Law School and a Senior Fellow at the
Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE) at the UW-Madison. He served as
Dean of International Studies from 1990 to 2001, and the Director of WAGE from 2001 to 2004.
A graduate of UW-Madison and Yale Law School, Professor Trubek joined the UW Law School
faculty in 1973. He has taught at Yale and Harvard Law Schools and the Catholic University Law
School in Rio de Janeiro. He served as Associate Dean for Research of the UW Law School and
Director of the UW's Institute for Legal Studies from 1985-90.
In 2001, the French government awarded Professor Trubek the honor of Chevalier dans l'Ordre
des Palmes Academiques, in recognition of "devotion and accomplishment in teaching,
scholarship and research." In 2002, he was awarded the Harry Kalven Prize by the Law and
Society Association, in recognition of "a body of empirical scholarship that has contributed most
effectively to the advancement of research in law and society."
Before teaching, Professor Trubek clerked for Judge Charles E. Clark on the US Second Circuit
Court of Appeals and worked as an attorney for the U.S. State Department and as a legal
advisor at the Agency for International Development (AID) Mission in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
While at Yale, he ran a research program on the role of the law in Third World Development.
He has since been a consultant for the State Department to develop legal training in Cape Verde
and Guinea-Bissau in Africa, for the Ford Foundation to develop legal services for the poor in
Brazil, and for AID on prospects for the rule of law in Russia. He has served on the boards of
the Inter-American Legal Services Association, the Law and Society Association, and the
Consortium on Globalization, Law and Social Sciences (CONGLASS). He is active in the
American Society of International Law and was co-chair of the 1996 conference on New
Approaches to International Law co-sponsored by the UW and the Harvard Law School. He was
appointed as the 2006/2007 Distinguished Visiting Professor in International and Comparative
Law at the American University in Cairo and is the co-chair of the International Socio-Legal
Conference in Berlin, 2007. His latest book edited with Alvaro Santos and entitled The New
Law and Economic Development: A Critical Appraisal was published by the Cambridge
University Press in 2006.
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