Courses Offered:

Intellectual Property Survey
Law and Literature
International Intellectual Property Law
Secured Transactions

Professional Biographical Information:

Paul J. Heald joined Georgia Law in 1989 and, 10 years later, became the youngest faculty member in the law school's history to be named to a chaired position, the Allen Post Professorship. In addition to teaching courses in intellectual property law, he also leads classes in international trade and secured transactions.

Recent scholarship includes: "The Problem of Social Cost in a Genetically Modified Age" in the Hastings Law Journal (2006), "A Transaction Costs Theory of Patent Law" in the Ohio State Law Journal (2005), "American Corporate Copyright: A Brilliant, Uncoordinated Plan" in the Journal of Intellectual Property Law (2005), "Mowing the Playing Field: Addressing Information Distortion and Assymetry in the TRIPS Game" in the Minnesota Law Review (2003), "Random Walks, Non-cooperative Games, and the Complex Mathematics of Patent Pricing" in the Rutgers Law Review (2003) (with R.F. Denton), "The Extraction/Duplication Dichotomy: Constitutional Line Drawing in the Database Debate" in the Ohio State Law Journal (2001), and "Implied Constraints on Congressional Power: Construing the Intellectual Property Clause" in the University of Illinois Law Review (2000) (with Professor Suzanna Sherry). Heald also wrote Literature and Legal Problem Solving: Law and Literature as Ethical Discourse (1998), a book to which he contributed and served as editor, and completed his first novel, No Regrets in 2003 (St. James Music Press).

Heald lectures frequently on his areas of expertise at scholarly conferences around the country and Europe. He has taught in the University of Georgia's London Law Consortium and served as a visiting professor at the University of Regensburg in Germany, the Université de Lyon in France, the Innsbruck Summer School, the University of Texas and Vanderbilt University.

An active community servant, Heald is a member and former chair of the Athens Area Emergency Food Bank as well as a former volunteer fireman. He currently lends his voice to the UGA Chorus.

Heald earned bachelor's and master's degrees in comparative literature from the University of Illinois. He taught English at Florida A&M University and English as a Second Language at Idiomas Inlingua in Madrid, Spain, before deciding to attend law school. He earned a law degree from the University of Chicago Law School, where he served as associate editor and staff member of the University of Chicago Law Review. Heald clerked for Judge Frank M. Johnson Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit.