Office:             University of Georgia School of Law
                       Athens, Georgia 30602-6012
                       (706) 542-5184
                       shipley@uga.edu

Home:             475 Riverbottom Road, Athens, Georgia 30606
                       (706) 613-0647

Spouse:           Virginia F. Coleman (Jenny)

Children:          One daughter, Shannon C. Shipley, age 24

Education:        University High, Urbana, Illinois, Class of 1968

                        Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, BA 1972, with Highest Honors in
                        History; Recipient of the Comfort Starr and Carrie Life Prizes for
                        excellence in academic work in the field of history, nominated for Rhodes
                        Scholarship by the Oberlin College Fellowship Committee

                        University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, Illinois, JD 1975
                        Executive Editor and Member, University of Chicago Law Review, 1973-75

Employment:   Thomas R.R. Cobb Professor of Law, University of Georgia School of Law
                        July 1, 2003 to date

                        Dean and Professor of Law, University of Georgia School of Law,
                        July 1, 1998 to June 30, 2003

                        Dean and Professor of Law, University of Kentucky College of Law,
                        July 1, 1993 to June 30, 1998

                        Dean, Director of the Law Center, and Professor of Law,
                        University of Mississippi School of Law, July 1, 1990 to June 30, 1993

                        Associate Dean for Administration and Professor,
                        University South Carolina School of Law, 1989 - 1990
                        Professor, U.S.C.                      1985 - 1990 
                        Associate Professor, U.S.C.       1981 - 1985
                        Assistant Professor, U.S.C.       1978 - 1981
                        Visiting Ass't Professor, U.S.C.  1977 - 1978

                        1986-87: Visiting Professor, The Ohio State University College of Law

                        1983-84: Visiting Associate Professor, Marshall-Wythe School of Law,
                        The College of William and Mary

                        June 1975 - August 1977: Associate, Tillinghast, Collins and Graham,
                        Providence, Rhode Island

Teaching Experience:

                        Copyright, Intellectual Property, Civil Procedure, Administrative Law, Legal and
                        Equitable Remedies, and Domestic Relations.

                        Teacher of the Year, University of South Carolina School of Law,
                        1989/90 Academic Year. 

                        Phi Delta Phi John C. O’Byrne Memorial Faculty Award for Significant
                        Contributions to Further Student-Faculty Relations, UGA School of Law,
                        2003/04 Academic Year and for the 2004/05 Academic Year.

PUBLICATIONS:

Books:

COPYRIGHT LAW: CASES AND MATERIALS, West Publishing 1992. My coauthors are Professor Howard Abrams at the University of Detroit School of Law and Professor Sheldon Halpern at Ohio State.

SOUTH CAROLINA ADMINISTRATIVE LAW. This is a treatise and practice manual with 8 chapters and roughly 600 pages. The first edition was published in 1983 by the South Carolina Bar and the second edition was published in 1989.

Book Chapter

"Rulemaking" in SOUTH CAROLINA ADMINISTRATIVE PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE (South Carolina Bar CLE Division 2004)(with Randolph Lowell).

Articles

Warrantless Administrative Inspections After Marshall v. Barlow's, Inc., 40 Ohio St. L.J. 81 (1979).

Generic Trademarks, the FTC and the Lanham Act: Covering the Market with Formica, 20 William & Mary L. Rev. 1 (1979).

Publicity Never Dies; It Just Fades Away: The Right of Publicity and Federal Preemption, 66 Cornell L. Rev. 673 (1981).

Recent Developments in Trademarks and Franchising: McChicken Struts Its Stuff While Chicken Delight Cries Foul, ABA monograph on Recent Developments in Licensing, published by the ABA's Section on Patent, Trademark and Copyright Law 203 (1981).

Protecting Research: Copyright, Common-Law Alternatives, and Federal Preemption (written with Jeffrey S. Hay, Esq.), 63 N.C. L. Rev. 125 (1984).

Copyright Protection for Architectural Works, 37 S.C. L.Rev. 393 (1986).

Conflicts Between Copyright and the First Amendment After Harper & Row, Publishers v. Nation Enterprises, 1986 B.Y.U. L. Rev. 983.

Copyright Law and Your Neighborhood Bar and Grill: Recent Developments in Performance Rights and the Section 110(5) Exemption, 29 Ariz. L. Rev. 475 (1987).

Three Strikes and They're Out at the Old Ball Game: Preemption of Performers' Rights of Publicity Under the Copyright Act of 1976, 20 Ariz. St. L.J. 369 (1988).

Bonito Boats v. Thunder Craft: The Silver Anniversary of the Sears/Compco Doctrine, 25 Wake Forest L. Rev. 385 (1990).

What Do Flexible Road Signs, Children's Clothes and the Allied Campaign in Europe during WWII Have in Common?: The Public Domain and the Supreme Court's Intellectual Property Jurisprudence, 13 U. Balt. Intell. Prop. L.J. ___ (2005).

Other Publications

Equitable Distribution in Virginia, The Colonial Lawyer, Spring 1984.

Fourteen Tough Copyright Questions, 58 Mississippi Libraries No. 1, page 16 (Spring 1994).

Property Rights in Cyberspace: Copyright Law in the Internet Era, 3 Journal of Agricultural & Food Information 3 (1996).

A Law School Dean in Judge Keller's Court: My Service as a Circuit Court Juror, Fayette County Bar News 45 (January-February 1997).

Liability Issues Facing Online Businesses, 5 Georgia Bar Journal 48 (2000), reprinted at 36 The Arkansas Lawyer 20 (2001).

The Personal Side of a Deanship, 31 U. Tol. L.Rev. 739 (2001) (contribution to a dedicated Deans' Forum).

Resigning as Dean: Stepping Down or Stepping Up?, 34 U. Tol. L. Rev. 189 (2003) (contribution to a dedicated Deans’ Forum).

I Am Glad I Got to Know Him, 11 J. Intell. Prop. L. xvii (2003)(a tribute to the late L. Ray Patterson).

Welcome, The Trans-Atlantic Relationship-Aviation Policy, Occasional Papers of the Dean Rusk Center, No. 3, 15-18 (2003).

Conference Welcome, From Autocracy to Democracy, 33 Ga. J. Int'l Comp. L. 115 (2004).
 
Student Comment, Defining the Scope of Grievance Arbitration in Public Education Employment Contracts, 41 University of Chicago Law Review 814 (1974).

Awarded Faculty Scholarship Prize, University of South Carolina School of Law, 1989/90 Academic Year.

SERVICE ACTIVITIES:

2004-05: Admissions Committee, Faculty Recruitment Committee, a faculty advisor for the Journal of Intellectual Property Law, UGA’s Faculty Affairs Committee, UGA's Curriculum Committee, UGA's Faculty Athletic Advisory Committee, UGA's Educational Affairs Committee, and faculty coordinator of the UGA/OSU Law Semester at Oxford program.

Member of the Rhode Island Bar, the ABA and Academic Membership in the South Carolina and Georgia Bars. I was involved in bar activities in Kentucky and Mississippi Bars but did not have any membership status.

Member, Joseph Henry Lumpkin Inn of Court, Atlanta and Athens.

Board Member, Institutes of Continuing Judicial Education (1998-2004) and Continuing Legal Education, (1998- to date),  Georgia

Member, Chief Justice’s Commission on Professionalism (1998-2003) and Standards of the Profesion Committee (2000 to date), State Bar of Georgia.

Board Member, Western Circuit Bar Association, Athens, Georgia (2001-05).

Member, Minority Affairs Committee, Law School Admissions Council, 2001 to date. 

President, Athens Justice Project, 2003 to 2005.

Member, Standards of the Profession Committee, State Bar of Georgia, 1998 to date.

Association of American Law Schools Committee on Fair Use 1988-89 (this three-member committee drafted a policy on classroom photocopying).

Member of the Educators' Ad Hoc Committee on Copyright Law 1988-89.

Member of the Carolina Patent, Trademark and Copyright Law Association, Board of Managers (1980-83 & 1989-90).

Service on many law school and university committees at the Universities of Kentucky, Mississippi, and South Carolina.

S.C. Bar Patent, Trademark and Copyright Committee, 1979-90.

Board Member, Shandon Neighborhood Council, 1985 to 1989, President, 1988-89.
       
Counselor for Methodist Youth Fellowship, Shandon United Methodist Church, 1987-89.

School Improvement Committee, Rosewood Elementary School, 1987-90.

Rotary -- Oxford, Mississippi and Lexington, Kentucky

Board Member, Island Residents Association, 1995-98

Member, St. Ives Journal Club, 1995-98

University of Georgia Parents and Families Council, 2000- 2003, Co-chair 2002-03

PRESENTATIONS AND SEMINARS:

Coordinator and Moderator for CLE Seminar on Copyright, Trademark and Patent Law for the General Practitioner, S.C. Bar, Spring 1981.

Addressed the ABA's Section on Patent, Trademark and Copyright Law at the ABA Convention in New Orleans, August 1981.

Speaker, coordinator or moderator at numerous S.C. Bar CLE presentations on the Administrative Procedures Act, 1983-1990.

Workshop on copyright law for the Association for Documentary Editing, Oct. 1982.

Presentations at several law school and bar committee seminars between 1984 and 1999 on different copyright issues.

CLE presentation on copyright and the arts at a program sponsored by the S.C. Bar, May 1986.

Consultant for the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, July 1, 1985 to June 30, 1986.

Consultant for the South Carolina Coastal Council, July 1, 1987 to June 30, 1990.

Speech to the South Carolina Association of Internal Auditors on the Freedom of Information Act and Its Impact on Working Papers and Draft Audits, February, 1988.

Presentation on Current Issues in State Administrative Law, Southeastern Conference on Public Administration, Birmingham, Alabama, October, 1988.

CLE presentation on the protection of ideas, S.C. Bar Convention, July, 1989.

Workshop Leader, National Innovation Workshop for the Southeastern Region, June, 1989.

Numerous speeches to civic clubs, Ole Miss Alumni Clubs, UK Alumni Clubs, Georgia alumni groups county bar associations and other professional organizations throughout Mississippi, Kentucky and Georgia from 1990 to date.

Facilitator at the Mississippi Bar's May, 1991 Conference on the Future of the Profession. The program concentrated on firms with three to nine members.

Discussion leader on professionalism in a program sponsored by the Mississippi Bar and the MTLA at the Annual School for Lawyers, July 1991.

Speech on Advertising for Judicial Elections, the Mississippi Bar's mid-year meeting, February 1992.

Facilitator at the Mississippi Bar's May, 1992 Conference on the Future of the Profession (Young Lawyers).

Facilitator at the Mississippi Bar's May, 1993 Conference on the Future of the Profession (Women and Minorities).

Member of the ABA Sabbatical Site Inspection Team for the University of New Mexico School of Law, April 1993.

Moderator and Panelist of a Law for Nonlawyers program sponsored the University of Mississippi and the Lee County Young Lawyers, Tupelo, Mississippi, April 1993.

Chair of the ABA Sabbatical Site Inspection Team for the University of Oklahoma College of Law, March 1994.

CLE Presentation for the Fayette County Bar Association on Copyright Law for the General Practitioner, October 1993.

Presentation to the Central and Eastern Kentucky Online Users Group and the Kentucky Chapter of the Special Libraries Association on Copyright Issues in the Digital Age, May 1994.

Discussion group leader, ABA Annual Deans' Workshop, Miami Florida, February 1995.

Chair of the ABA Sabbatical Site Inspection Team for the Northwestern School of Law of Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon, March 1995.

CLE Presentation on Kentucky's Administrative Hearings Statute, Laurel County Bar, March 1995.

Property Rights in Cyberspace -- Copyright Law in the Internet Era, USAIN Conference, Lexington, April 1995.

Cybertorts, Hate Speech on E-Mail, Bytes of Privacy, and "Flaming": Accidents Waiting to Happen on the Information Superhighway. CLE Presentation at a program sponsored by KATA, May 1995.

Planning Committee, Discussion Leader, and Presenter, the Kentucky Bar Association's Conclave on the Education of Lawyers, August 1995.

Copyright Law and Libraries in Cyberspace, Paper and Presentation for the 1995 Joint Conference of the Kentucky Library Association and the Kentucky School Media Association, Paducah, Kentucky, October 1995.

Keynote Speaker, Societus Pro Legibus Fall Initiation Banquet, November 1995. Speaker, "Lawyers in the Schools" -- 1995 and 1996.

Presenter and Panelist, Current Copyright Issues, The National Conference of Law Reviews, Lexington, Kentucky, March 1996.

Presenter and Discussion Leader, Affirmative Action and Academic Support Programs, Teaching Resource Center, University of Kentucky, April 1996.

Speaker, Current Developments in Copyright Law for Librarians, Conference for School and Library Media Specialists, M.I. King Library, University of Kentucky, June 1996.

Trainer/Presenter on Due Process, Office of the Kentucky Attorney General, Training for Administrative Hearing Officers, June 1996.

Panel Discussion on Teaching Generation X, Computers, Marketing and Student Services, ABA Annual Deans Meeting, San Antonio, January 1997.

Presentation on Copyright Law and Fair Use, Campus Workshop organized by the University of Kentucky Computer Services, February 1997.

Speech entitled "But I Liked My Old Smith Corona and the Card Catalog" for the Southeastern Association of Law Librarians, Tallahassee, April 1997.

Panelist in discussion of Civility in the Federal Courts, Regional Meeting of the American College of Trial Lawyers, Lexington, Kentucky, April 1997.

Participant in the Wharton School/Institute for Research on Higher Education, Executive Education Program for the Knight Collaborative, University of Pennsylvania, April 23-27, 1997.

Presentation on the "Role of Elder Law Studies in Legal Education and the Legal Profession," June 13, 1997, UKCLE on Elder Law in Kentucky.

ABA "Acquiescence Inspection" of the proposed LL.M. in Intellectual Property at the Benjamin Cardozo School of Law, New York City, October 1997.

Presentation on Professional Skills Education, St. Ives Journal Club, May 1998.

Presentation and panel discussion on Professionalism Instruction in America's Law Schools, Fayette County Bar, June 1998.

Moderator, Panel Discussion on Legal Writing in the First-Year, Southeastern Conference of the Association of American Law Schools, July 1998.

Moderator of Panel Discussion on The Law School's Role in System and University Wide Strategic Planning, ABA Annual Deans Meeting, Los Angeles, February 1999.

ABA "Follow-Up Inspection" of the LL.M. Program at the University of California-Davis School of Law, Davis, California, March 1999.

Panelist, The Globalization of America's Law Schools - Faculty Exchanges, Student Exchanges, Foreign Programs, Curricular Changes, Southeastern Conference of the Association of American Law Schools, July 1998.

VIP -- Guest of SEAALL at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Libraries, Washington D.C., July 1999.

Presentation to The Copyright Society of the U.S.A., Southeast Chapter, Atlanta, August 1999, on the growing importance of intellectual property at America's law schools over the last twenty-five years.

Panelist, The Chair's Role: Discussion of Hypotheticals and Other Hot Topics, ABA Site Evaluation Chairperson's Workshop, Indianapolis, September 1999.

Speaker at CLE, Liability Issues Facing Online Businesses, 14^th Annual Computer Law Institute, Computer Law Section of the State Bar of Georgia, Atlanta, September 1999.

Chair, ABA/AALS Sabbatical Site Inspection for the University of Iowa College of Law, March 26-29, 2000.

Speaker at the Buckhead Chapter of the Georgia Society of Certified Public Accountants, presentation on eCommerce legal issues, June 1, 2000.

Chair, ABA New Deans' Seminar, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, June 7-11, 2000.

Speaker, Southern Conference of Bar Presidents, Savannah, Georgia, presentation on eCommerce legal issues, October 20, 2000.

Panelist, 30^th Annual ABA Deans Workshop, San Diego, "Balancing and Recharging," February 17, 2001.

Chair, ABA/AALS Sabbatical Site Inspection for the St. Mary's University School of Law, April 8-11, 2001.

Chair, ABA New Deans' Seminar, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, June 6-10, 2001.

Speaker, 42^nd Annual Conference on Higher Education and the Law, University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education, "Intellectual Property Issues," July 16, 2001.

Planning Committee, AALS Training Program on “Managing Conflict and Consensus
Building for Law School Deans,” October 2001.

Speaker, DeKalb County Bar Association, Decatur, Georgia, January 17, 2002.

Discussion group moderator and panelist, “Faculty Hiring and Retention Issues,” 31st
Annual ABA Deans Workshop, Tuscon, January 21, 2002.

Speaker, Kiwanis Club of Columbus, Columbus, Georgia, January 29, 2002.

Speaker, Forsyth County Bar Association, Cumming, Georgia, February 8, 2002.

Speaker, Sandy Springs Bar Association, Dunwoody, Georgia, March 14, 2002.

Speaker, Baldwin County Bar Association, Milledgeville, Georgia, March 21, 2002.

Speaker, Gwinnett County Bar Association, Duluth, Georgia, April 19, 2002.

Speaker, Gainesville/Northeastern Circuit Bar Association, Gainesville, Georgia, May 22, 2002.

Speaker, Law Clerks Seminar, Institute for Continuing Judicial Education, Athens, Georgia, August 29 and August 30, 2002.

Speaker, Fayette County Bar Association, Fayetteville, Georgia, September 5, 2002.

Speaker, Hall County Bar Association, Gainesville, Georgia, November 20, 2002.

Panelist, Plenary Session, “Communicating with Our Constituencies,”32nd Annual ABA Deans Workshop, Seattle, February 7, 2003.

Chair, ABA/AALS Sabbatical Site Inspection for the University of Maryland School of Law, March 9-12, 2003.

Member of the Licensing Review Team for the S.C. Commission on Higher Education to evaluate the application of the Charleston School of Law for an initial license to offer a program leading to the Juris Doctor degree, 2003-04.

Review of the scholarship of an Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law for purposes of his application for promotion to the Rank of Professor, September 2003.

Faculty panelist for the Office of Undergraduate Admissions and the Honors Program at UGA at three programs for prospective Honors students and their parents, Fall 2003.

Speaker, International Judicial Training Program, Rusk Center, UGA, American Legal Education, Admission to the Bar, Law Practice Supervision and Continuing Lawyer Education, May 17, 2004 (Judges and court officials from Ghana).

Review of the scholarship of an Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law for purposes of her application for promotion to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure, September 2004.

Chair, ABA/AALS Sabbatical Site Inspection for the University of San Diego School of Law, March 13-16, 2005

Speaker and Panelist, What Every Artist Needs to Know about Law and Art, Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia, April 25, 2005

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