New LLM course in Innovation Policy and the Law
Alan Devlin will teach "Innovation Policy and the Law" in UCD's LL.M. programme in intellectual-property law, starting in the autumn of 2011. Previously, Mr. Devlin practiced law in the Chicago office of the international law firm, Latham & Watkins, after he which served as a law clerk to the Hon. Richard D. Cudahy of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and, then, as a law clerk to the Hon. Amy J. St. Eve of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. During his time in Chicago, Mr. Devlin was a Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School and, prior to that, was an Adjunct Professor at DePaul University College of Law. He has previously taught courses on law & economics, antitrust, intellectual property, and innovation policy. In January 2012, Mr. Devlin will join the San Francisco office of Latham & Watkins as a senior associate.Mr. Devlin earned his B.B.L.S. (Int.) degree with first-class honours from UCD in 2004. He subsequently obtained a doctorate in jurisprudence (J.S.D.) from the University of Chicago, under the supervision of the Hon. Richard A. Posner, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School, where he was Articles Editor for the Stanford Law Review. His academic work has appeared in the Stanford Law Review, the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, the Northwestern University Law Review, the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy (twice), the Yale Law & Policy Review, the Minnesota Law Review, the William & Mary Law Review (twice), the Arizona Law Review, the Journal of Competition Law & Economics (twice), the Berkeley Technology Law Journal, the Columbia Business Law Review, the American Business Law Journal, the Irish Jurist (twice), and elsewhere.
Mr Devlin's curriculum vitae can be found here .
