Courses Offered:

Intellectual Property Survey
International Trade
International Intellectual Property Law
Secured Transactions
Trademark Law

Professional Biographical Information:

Paul 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. During the fall of 2008, he was a visiting professor of law at the University of Chicago. He also holds a visiting position at the Center for Intellectual Property Policy and Management at Bournemouth University in England.

Heald lectures on patent, copyright and international intellectual property law around the world and has previously held visiting positions at universities in London, Lyon, Regensburg and Innsbruck, and at the University of Texas and Vanderbilt University. He also taught in the UGA/OSU program at St. Anne's College, Oxford University, during the spring of 2009.

Recent publications have focused on economic aspects of IP law, including theoretical papers on optimal patent remedies, the role transaction costs in patent law and the problem of patent pricing as well as two empirical studies on best-selling fiction and musical compositions from 1913 to 1932. He has also written two books on law and literature, and his first novel, No Regrets, was published by St. James Music Press in 2002.

Heald earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in comparative literature from the University of Illinois. As an undergraduate there, he fenced for two Big Ten championship teams and placed 18th in epee at the 1980 NCAA championships. He earned his law degree cum laude from the University of Chicago, 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.