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David E. Shipley
Thomas R.R. Cobb Professor of Law
B.A., Oberlin College
J.D., University of Chicago
Courses
Copyright
Administrative Law
Civil Procedure
Remedies
Biographical Information
David E. Shipley joined the University of Georgia School of Law faculty as dean and professor of law in July 1998. He led the school through the completion of a strategic planning process; a $3.2 million renovation of several classrooms and the law library's Carl E. Sanders Reading Room; a school-wide technology upgrade; the creation of the director of advocacy position; the establishment of the Land Use Clinic; and the successful passage of an ABA site inspection. Also, under his leadership, there was a steady improvement of incoming student credentials. He resigned as dean in June 2003 to return to teaching full time as the Thomas R.R. Cobb Professor of Law.
Shipley has been teaching courses on civil procedure, copyright, administrative law and remedies since returning to the classroom. He also helped establish the law school's new semester abroad program at England's historic Oxford University. This program, administered jointly with Ohio State's law school, started in 2006. Shipley served as the program's professor in residence at Oxford in 2007, teaching international intellectual property and comparative administrative law to 20 law students from UGA and Ohio State.
Additionally, he has been named the UGA faculty athletics representative, making him part of the team responsible for ensuring the university's academic compliance with NCAA regulations and academic success for student athletes.
Prior to coming to UGA, Shipley was dean and professor at the University of Kentucky College of Law (1993-98); dean, director of the Law Center and professor at the University of Mississippi School of Law (1990-93); and associate dean for administrative affairs and professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law (1989-90). He joined the faculty at the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1977 as a visiting assistant professor after practicing law with the firm Tillinghast, Collins & Graham for two years in Providence, R.I. In addition, he was a visiting professor at William & Mary in 1983-84 and at Ohio State in 1986-87.
Shipley is a co-author of the casebook Copyright Law: Cases and Materials (with Sheldon Halpern and Howard Abram, 1992) and two editions of a treatise and practice manual, South Carolina Administrative Law (2d ed., 1989). He also writes and speaks frequently on issues regarding copyright, intellectual property and legal education at seminars and conferences in Georgia and across the country.
Shipley is an active member of the American Bar Association and the Association of American Law Schools. He has also chaired and served on several ABA accreditation inspections.
Shipley earned his undergraduate degree in history with highest honors from Oberlin College and his law degree from the University of Chicago, where he was executive editor of the University of Chicago Law Review.
Shipley enjoys working in his yard, trying to break 100 with consistency in golf, running, swimming and spending time with his family.
The Architectural Works Copyright Protection Act at Twenty: Has Full Protection Made a Difference? 18 J. Intell. Prop. L. 1 (2011).
A Dangerous Undertaking Indeed: Juvenile Humor, Raunchy Jokes, Obscene Materials and Bad Taste in Copyright, 98 Ky. L.J. 517 (2010).
Due Process Rights Before the EU Agencies: The Rights of Defense, 37 Ga. J. Int'l & Comp. L. 3 (2008).
Congressional Authority Over Intellectual Property Policy After Eldred v. Ashcroft: Deference, Empty Limitations, and Risks to the Public Domain, 70 Alb. L. Rev. 1255 (2007).
Thin But Not Anorexic: Copyright Protection for Compilations and Other Fact Works, 15 J. Intell. Prop. L. 92 (2007).
Milner S. Ball: Proof That One Professor Can Make a Difference, 41 Ga. L. Rev. 753 (2007).
The Status of Administrative Agencies Under the Georgia Constitution, 40 Ga. L. Rev. 1109 (2006).
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. J. Intell. Prop. L.J. 57 (2005).
Conference: From Autocracy to Democarcy: The Effort to Establish Market Democracies in Iraq and Afghanistan: Welcome and Introductions, 33 Ga. J. Int'l & Comp. L. 115 (2004).
I Am Glad I Got to Know Him, 11 J. Intell. Prop. L. xvii (2003) (a tribute to the late L. Ray Patterson).
Resigning as Dean: Stepping Down or Stepping Up?, 35 U. Tol. L. Rev. 189 (2003).
Liability Issues Facing Online Businesses, 36 Ark. Law. 20 (2001).
The Personal Side of a Deanship, 31 U. Tol. L. Rev. 739 (2000).
Liability Issues Facing Online Businesses, 5 Ga. B. J. 48 (2000).
A Law School Dean in Judge Keller's Court: My Service as a Circuit Court Juror, Fayette County B. News, Jan.-Feb. 1997, at 45.
Property Rights in Cyberspace: Copyright Law in the Internet Era, 3 J. Agric. & Food Info. 3 (1996).
Fourteen Tough Copyright Questions, 58 Miss. Libraries No. 1, at 16 (1994).
Refusing to Rock the Boat: The Sears/Compco Preemption Doctrine Applied to Bonito Boats V. Thunder Craft, 25 Wake Forest L. Rev. 385 (1990).
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).
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).
Conflicts Between Copyright and the First Amendment after Harper & Row, Publishers V. Nation Enterprises, 1986 BYU L. Rev. 983 (1986).
Copyright Protection for Architectural Works, 37 S.C. L. Rev. 393 (1986).
Protecting Research: Copyright, Common-law Alternatives, and Federal Preemption, 63 N.C. L. Rev. 125 (1984) (with Jeffrey S. Hay).
Equitable Distribution in Virginia, Colonial L., Spring 1984, at 16.
Publicity Never Dies; it Just Fades Away: The Right of Publicity and Federal Preemption, 66 Cornell L. Rev. 673 (1981).
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 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1 (1979).
Copyright Cases and Materials. (West Pub. Co., 1992) (with Sheldon W. Halpern and Howard B. Abrams).
South Carolina Administrative Law. 2nd ed. (South Carolina Bar, Continuing Legal Education Division, 1989).
South Carolina Administrative Law. (Continuing Legal Education Committee of the South Carolina Bar, 1983).
“Rulemaking” in South Carolina Administrative Practice and Procedure, 2nd ed. (South Carolina Bar CLE Division, 2008) (with Randolph Lowell).
"Rulemaking” in South Carolina Administrative Practice and Procedure (South Carolina Bar CLE Division, 2004) (with Randolph Lowell).
"Recent Developments in Trademarks and Franchising: McChicken Struts Its Stuff While Chicken Delight Cries Foul," in Recent Developments in Licensing. (Section of Patent, Trademark and Copyright Law, American Bar Association, 1981).
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University of Georgia
School of Law
323 Rusk Hall
Athens, GA 30602
Phone: (706) 542-5184
Fax: (706) 542-7404
Email: shipley@uga.edu
Administrative Support
Stacy Harvey
Phone: (706) 542-1195
Email: snharvey@uga.edu
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