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Professional Biographical Information:
L. Ray Patterson, Pope F. Brock Professor of Professional Responsibility at the University of Georgia School of Law, has been a member of the UGA law faculty since 1986. His areas of expertise are copyright law and lawyer's law.

Recent scholarship includes a casebook, Legal Ethics: The Law of Professional Responsibility (4th ed.) and an article, "An Essay on Teaching Professional Responsibility" in Northern Illinois University Law Review (1999). He is the author of Copyright in Historical Perspective, the seminal treatment of copyright history and generally recognized as a classic treatise. Patterson is also widely known for his book, The Nature of Copyright: A Law of Users' Rights (with the late Stanley Lindberg, 1991). Two other recent articles are: "Copyright for the New Millennium" in the Ohio State Law Journal (2001) and "Understanding the Copyright Clause" in Journal of the Copyright Society (2000). 

Patterson was appointed special assistant attorney general of Georgia for copyright matters and wrote the attorney general's opinion on fair
use of copyrighted materials for teaching and research. In 1996, he wrote an amicus brief, filed on behalf of ten other national copyright professors, which the Sixth Circuit considered in rendering the first U.S. appellate ruling on the fair use of copyrighted materials for classroom use (Princeton University Press v. Michigan Document Services, Inc., 99 F.3d 1381 (6th Cir., 1996). 

Patterson, a member and former chairman of the Formal Advisory Opinion Board of the State Bar of Georgia, is also the former reporter and consultant for the ABA Commission on Evaluation of Professional Standards. He is a member of the American Law Institute and chaired the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) Board of Ethics for more than a decade. He is frequently called upon to provide expert testimony on matters of legal ethics and copyright infringement, and has advised state and national policy makers on the subjects. 

Patterson began his legal career with a small-town practice in Rome, Georgia in 1957. He became a member of the Mercer University law faculty the following year and joined the Vanderbilt law faculty five years later. In 1973, he was named dean and professor of law at Emory University; he stepped down from the deanship in 1980 but remained at Emory until joining the University of Georgia as a chaired professor in 1986. Patterson has also served as a visiting professor at Duke University and the University of Texas. 

Patterson earned his bachelor's and law degrees from Mercer University, a master's degree from Northwestern University, and a 
doctor of juridical science degree from Harvard University.

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