Adjunct Faculty

Kara Abramson
Congressional-Executive Commission on China
J.D., 2003, Harvard Law School
A.B., 1998, Princeton University

Kara Abramson is a specialist in international human rights law and the Chinese legal system. She is currently Senior Counsel at the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, a U.S. government organization mandated to monitor human rights and the rule of law in China. Abramson's work at the Commission focuses on ethnic minority rights, religious freedom, and conditions in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Abramson received an A.B. from Princeton University, where she studied early Japanese history, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. Abramson spent the 2003-2004 academic year researching Chinese legal education and teaching U.S. civil procedure as a Fulbright fellow to the Sichuan University Law School. Her languages include Japanese, Mandarin, Uyghur, and French.

Stuart Beraha, Partner
Morrison & Foerster LLP
J.D., 1993, New York University School of Law
B.A., 1990, University of Michigan

Professor Beraha is currently a partner in the Tokyo office of Morrison & Foerster LLP. He has broad experience in technology, content, branding and other intellectual property development, licensing and partnering transactions. His practice includes the structuring and negotiation of joint venture and strategic alliance transactions and related agreements, technology, software and content assignments and licenses, e-commerce and other Internet-related agreements, development, joint development, consulting and outsourcing agreements, patent assignments and licenses, and trademark licenses and related branding agreements, as well as the intellectual property components of merger and acquisition transactions and other transactions relating to the transfer of technology and other types of intellectual property.

Manisha Desai
J.D., 2001, Cornell University Law School
B.A., 1998, University of Louisville

Manisha Desai is an Adjunct Professor at Temple University, Japan Campus. Prior to joining the faculty, Professor Desai was a litigator at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, LLP in New York and Waller Lansden Dortch and Davis, LLP in Nashville. She has wide experience in complex civil litigation, including, contract disputes, international arbitration, white collar investigations, false claims/qui tam actions and intellectual property infringement. Professor Desai also clerked for Honorable John T. Nixon, Senior Judge in the United States District Court, for the Middle District of Tennessee.

Professor Desai received her Bachelor of Arts, with honors, from the University of Louisville and her Juris Doctor, with honors, from Cornell University Law School. While in law school, she served on the editorial boards of the Cornell International Law Journal and the Briggs Society of International Law. Following law school, Professor Desai was a Dean Acheson Scholar to the Honorable Jean-Pierre Puissochet of the Court of Justice of the European Communities, Luxembourg. Professor Desai is a member of the New York and Tennessee bars, and has been admitted to the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, and for the Western, Middle, and Eastern Districts of Tennessee, as well as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth and Tenth Circuits. She is fluent in French, and proficient in Gujarati and Swahili.

Etsuo Doi, Attorney
Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker LLP
LL.M. 1996, Columbia University School of Law
1994, The Legal Training and Research Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan
LL.B. 1988, University of Tokyo

Professor Doi is a distinguished attorney specializing in intellectual property law and general corporate matters. He is admitted to practice law in both Japan and New York. Before joining the international firm of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, Professor Doi served as the Chief Legal Counsel for eBay Japan. From 1996 to 1998, he also worked with Morrison & Foerster LL.P. in San Francisco and Palo Alto, where he focused on multinational patent litigation. Given the extensive expertise in international business transactions and multinational litigation that Professor Doi has developed from the beginning of his career as a Japanese lawyer, he is well-versed in the legal complexities and cultural difficulties encountered in international transactions and negotiations between Japanese and foreign business partners. He is also an active member of LAWASIA, the Law and Computers Association of Japan, the Copyright Association of Japan and the Japan-America Society. Professor Doi is fluent in Japanese and English.

F. Frederic Fouad, Attorney
Harvard Law School, 2009-2010 Visiting Scholar
New York University, J.D., 1990
University of Pennsylvania, B.A., 1985

Professor Fouad has practiced law for 20 years and combines Japan-focused commercial matters with extensive pro bono work. He has pursued cutting-edge cases in several US jurisdictions and gained securities laws protections for Japanese investors, civil rights advances for Japanese women, and better enforcement of at-risk children's rights. Professor Fouad's pro bono work includes having assisted in Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina with implementation of the refugee property rights provisions of the Dayton Peace Accord. He has also litigated against the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General seeking reform of the world's largest residential childcare charity.

Professor Fouad was a 2009-2010 Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School where he focused on child welfare and nonprofit law. He previously served as General Counsel at Lexington Corporation (Tokyo, Japan), was an associate at Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue (New York, NY), and served as in-house counsel at Taisei Corporation (Tokyo, Japan). He has litigated civil matters in Hawaii, California, Washington, Pennsylvania, and New York including at the appellate and Federal levels. His work has been featured in global media including 60 Minutes, the BBC, The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Le Monde, and The London Times, with a profile appearing in BusinessWeek. A working-paper talk concerning his work at Harvard can be viewed here.

Professor Fouad teaches International Contract Drafting and Professional Responsibility at TUJ.

Nathan N. Frost, Chief
Government Relations Specialist, US Forces, Japan
Major, USAFR
J.D., 2001 University of Nevada - Las Vegas
B.A., 1998 Brigham Young University

Nathan N. Frost works as a government relations specialist for US Forces, Japan Plans and Policy Directorate, which is responsible for negotiating and coordinating with relevant Government of Japan ministries and agencies regarding all aspects of the US military presence in Japan. He is also a reserve US Air Force JAG.

His previous experience includes work as Chief, International Law Division, 5th Air Force, Yokota Air Base, Japan, Chief, Military Justice Division, same headquarters, as well as tours handling criminal prosecution and defense, federal labor relations, and a broad array of legal assistance issues facing armed forces members. During his undergraduate years, he worked as a research and teaching assistant for students studying Japanese and interned with a Tokyo-based publishing company. In law school, he returned to research assisting, focusing on US Constitutional Law. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Japanese from Brigham Young University and obtained a Juris Doctor as a member of the charter class at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas William S. Boyd School of Law. He is admitted to practice law before the Supreme Court of Arizona and the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces.

Carl F. Goodman, Attorney
LL.M., Georgetown Law Center
J.D., Brooklyn Law School
B.B.A. City College of New York - Baruch

Professor Goodman is a retired partner in the firm of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue. He also was previously a partner in the firm of Surrey & Morse. He began his legal career in the U.S. Department of Justice under the Honor's Program and was a special assistant to the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division. He later moved on to serve in the Civil Division's Office of Alien Property litigating "Trading with the Enemy Act" cases, and subsequently to the U.S. Department of State where he served as the U.S. government's agent before the International Lake Ontario Claims Tribunal. Professor Goodman also served in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and then as General Counsel of the Civil Service Commission. Following his government service, Professor Goodman rejoined Surrey & Morse in their New York City office, where he developed a Japan-related practice and became a partner in Jones Day when Surrey & Morse and Jones Day merged in 1986. Retiring from Jones Day in 1 991, Professor Goodman became a professor of Anglo-American law at the Hiroshima University in Japan. Since returning to the United States in 1995, he has been a consultant to Japanese companies and their American subsidiaries. Professor Goodman is a member of the American Law Institute and a previous member of the Council of the Administrative Law Section of the ABA and was chairman of the committee on administrative law of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. He is the author of the Handbook of Public Personnel Law published by the Law Journal Press, and numerous law review articles dealing with international law and civil service legal issues. In 1998, Professor Goodman undertook a tour at four Japanese universities and in January 2000 he lectured on Japanese contract law with specific reference to distribution agreements in Santiago, Chile. In October 2000, he lectured at several Japanese law faculties. In 2003, Professor Goodman was a Researcher at Tokyo University, Faculty of Law under a Fulbright grant. His book, The Rule of Law in Japan--A Comparative Analysis, was published in 2003.

Stephen Hesse, Professor of Law
Chuo University Law Faculty
Chuo Law School
M.S.E.L., 1989, Vermont Law School
J.D., 1989, Vermont Law School
B.A., 1980, Hamilton College

Professor Hesse has been a member of the Chuo University Law Faculty in Tokyo since 1993. He joined the faculty of the Chuo Law School in 2006. Professor Hesse is also a senior Environmental Columnist at The Japan Times, where he has worked for more than 16 years and published over 350 columns and articles on environmental issues. In addition to teaching and journalism, Professor Hesse works as a policy advisor to national and international NGOs, both in Japan and abroad. He is admitted as an attorney in Massachusetts and the District of Columbia.

Doug Hymas, President/CEO
ING Mutual Funds Management Company (Japan), Ltd.
J.D., 1990, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University
B.A., 1987, Brigham Young University

Professor Doug Hymas serves as President and CEO of ING Mutual Funds Management Company (Japan), Ltd. Prior to this appointment, he served as President and Representative Director of Wachovia Securities (Japan). He has also previously served as Head of the Mutual Fund Sales Department at Legg Mason Securities Co., Ltd. (formerly Citicorp Securities Limited) and Legal Counsel and Director of Citigroup Asset Management's Financial Product Development Department. Professor Hymas has over 15 years international experience in the legal and financial sectors in Japan. He specializes in international business transactions including legal structures, mergers and acquisitions, regulatory issues, securities, tax implications, regulatory issues, and other related matters. He is a member of the State Bar of California and fluent in Japanese. Professor Hymas has published articles on transnational banking and international debt.

Scott Imaye, Attorney
Matsuo & Kosugi
J.D., 1997, University of Southern California
B.A., 1994, Boston University

Professor Scott Imaye is a registered foreign attorney (Gaikokuho Jimu Bengoshi) in Japan. As a foreign attorney at Matsuo & Kosugi, he assists Japanese, U.S., European, and multinational clients with the legal complexities associated with international business transactions and transnational litigation. Professor Imaye is a licensed attorney in the State of Hawaii and has previously worked as an attorney at Alston Hunt Floyd & Ing in Honolulu as well as a legal counsel to Sumitomo Chemical Company in Tokyo. He is fluent in Japanese and teaches negotiations and business law here at the Law School.

John Inge, Partner
Hogan & Hartson
J.D., Suffolk University Law School
B.A., Carnegie Mellon University

Professor Inge has over 30 years of patent and other intellectual property law experience divided between Japan and the United States. Before joining Hogan & Hartson, he was a partner at a leading IP law boutique. Professor Inge's legal practice spans patent litigation, interference practice, validity and infringement opinions, negotiations, and licensing involving all aspects of intellectual property, as well as patent application preparation and prosecution. He frequently counsels clients in both the United States and Japan on patent portfolio management and intellectual property strategies.

Professor Inge was previously on the adjunct faculty of George Mason University School of Law, teaching courses on interference practice and other advanced areas of Patent Office practice. He also was the longest-serving Chairman of the board of directors of Yokohama International School. Professor Inge regularly lectures throughout the Pacific Rim on intellectual property law topics.

Edward S. "Ted" Johnson, Partner
Corporate Department, Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, LLP

Edward "Ted" Johnson's practice focuses on strategic transactions and relationships including joint ventures, M&A, private equity investments, restructurings and investment fund platform structuring for strategic, fund and institutional investors in Japan and globally. Many of the projects he handles are technology and intellectual property driven transactions, including in the semiconductors, telecommunications, media and biotechnology industries. He also has extensive experience representing private equity investors in hotel and resort investments.

Mr. Johnson is an Adjunct Professor at Keio Law School and has served as an Adjunct Professor at the Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy of Hitotsubashi University. He is the co-author of a casebook on Japanese law, Law and Investment in Japan: Cases and Materials (Harvard Univ. Press, 2d ed., 2001) and a former Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Scholar in East Asian Legal Studies at Harvard Law School. Mr. Johnson, who is a graduate of Harvard Law School, is licensed in California and Georgia, admitted to practice in Japan as a Gaikokuho Jimu Bengoshi (Licensed Foreign Law Specialist) and a member of Daini Tokyo Bar Association

Kelly Knepper-Stephens, General Counsel
Stoneleigh Recovery Services
J.D., 2005, George Washington University Law School
B.A., 1999, American University

Kelly Knepper-Stephens has a background in both trial and appellate litigation. She is currently general counsel for Stoneleigh Recovery Associates, LLC, a debt recovery solutions company located in Lombard, Illinois. Her current work focuses on government regulations and compliance, civil litigation, contract law and employment law. She received her J.D. from the George Washington University Law School, where she returned as a Visiting Professor of Clinical Law and Freidman Fellow from 2008-2011. At G.W. Law, she focused on appellate work teaching in the Federal Criminal & Appellate Clinic. In 2011, she argued before the highest court in Maryland on three occasions. Her trial skills were developed as a Deputy Public Defender at the San Diego County Public Defender Office. Ms. Knepper-Stephens has also worked for the American Red Cross Litigation Department, American Civil Liberties Union Legislative Affairs Office, and the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee Legal Department. She is currently barred in the states of California, Maryland and the District of Columbia. She speaks fluent French, proficient Spanish, and is learning Japanese.

Marcus Kosins, Jr., Attorney
Kosins Law Office, Tokyo
J.D., 1983, Seattle University Law School
B.A., 1980, DePauw University

Professor Kosins has spent the past 13 years in Japan and the United States representing various U.S. and foreign clients in a broad range of international commercial and transactional legal matters. Professor Kosins has particular expertise in international matters involving intellectual property, mergers and acquisitions, and real estate transactions. Drawing on his international legal experience, he has presented lectures to various legal groups on intellectual property, corporate and commercial law, copyright, and immigration law. Professor Kosins is registered as a foreign attorney in Japan and is licensed to practice law in Hawaii, Indiana, and Colorado. He also utilizes his fluency in Japanese and English and knowledge of cross-border issues to serve his international clientele.

Bryan Koslow, Esquire
Professionals Japan
J.D., 2001, Washington University School of Law
Mombusho Scholar, 1996 - 1997, Fukui National University, Fukui
B.A., 1997, Brigham Young University

After working for Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett and Abe & Matsutome Law Office, where he advised the world's premier securities houses, consulting firms, and multinational corporations on both legal and business decisions in relation to their Japan operations, Professor Koslow joined Deloitte Tohmatsu Consulting (currently Braxton) as a senior consultant in the Strategy and Operations division following graduation from law school. Professor Koslow specializes in corporate strategy, focusing on the financial services sector. He has advised many of the major foreign-owned life insurers in Japan on both strategic and operational issues, and has worked with securities houses and other financial institutions on a variety of business and regulatory issues. In addition, he has worked closely with the telecoms and pharmaceutical industries, and with a leading Internet service provider, leading and implementing numerous strategy and operational improvement projects on behalf of his clients. At present, Professor Koslow serves as Director of Professionals Japan, an Executive Search firm. Professor Koslow is fluent in Japanese and has lived in Japan for over eight years.

Kazuo Makino, Professor of Law
Omiya Law School
LL.M., Georgetown University Law Center
LL.B., Waseda University School of Law

Professor Makino is an experienced practitioner of Japanese and international business law as well as intellectual property law. Professor Makino spent approx. 17 years as in-house chief counsel at Isuzu Motors Limited (ex-subsidiary of General Motors Corporation), and spent approx. 3 years as its General Counsel at Apple Japan, Inc., and has acquired expertise in corporate, business and intellectual property law, both in Japan as well as in international settings. Thereafter, Professor Makino has spent approx. 10 years as successful international practicing attorney at20Shiba International Law Offices, and he was involved in many large amount litigation cases (both in Japan and in overseas), while he has been advising to many listed multi-national companies. He is admitted in Japan and Michigan, and is fluent in both Japanese and English, and has some knowledge of French.

Eric Marcks, Associate
White & Case
JD, University of Texas at Austin, with Honors, 2000
Kyushu University, Japan, Japanese Ministry of Education Scholarship, 1997
MA, Harvard University, 1995
BA, Middlebury College, 1991

Professor Marcks is a senior associate at White & Case. He advises clients on a wide range of corporate and commercial matters, with a focus on mergers and acquisitions. Professor Marcks joined White & Case's Tokyo office in November 2007. Before then, he practiced corporate law for seven years in San Francisco, where he represented international companies in various types of corporate and commercial transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, creditors' rights workouts, and licensing, distribution, OEM, and other types of commercial agreements. Professor Marcks also worked extensively with emerging technology companies in Silicon Valley and the venture capital funds that support them, counseling on formation, corporate governance, employee incentive plans, intellectual property protection and licensing, operations, financings, and other matters. He is admitted to the California state bar and is registered as a Gaikoku Jimu Bengoshi in Japan.

Gerald Paul McAlinn, Professor of Law
Keio University, Tokyo
LL.M., 1979, Cambridge University, Trinity College
J.D., 1975, University of Pennsylvania Law School
B.A., 1988, Temple University

Professor McAlinn is a member of the Faculty of Law at Keio University in Tokyo. He was the first foreign tenured professor of law at the University. He presently teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in international business transactions and U.S. law. Professor McAlinn also serves as an adjunct professor at Tokyo University and Waseda University. Professor McAlinn has focused his writings on Japanese commercial law with an emphasis on comparative and traditional law. He is co-author of the second edition of the acclaimed treatise, Comparative Law: Law and the Legal Process in Japan. Prior to entering academia, he served as Asia Pacific regional counsel for Motorola and ARCO. In this capacity, he oversaw the legal affairs of these major multinational corporations in over 13 countries. He also served as the first director of the Temple Law Program in Japan, and serve as Interim Director of the Program in 2000-2001.

Bruce W. Miller
Executive Director, Shinnihon Ernst & Young
LL.M. in Tax, 1988, Boston University School of Law
J.D., 1987, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University
B.S., 1984, Brigham Young University

Bruce Miller is an Executive Director at Ernst & Young Japan, leading the Business Tax Compliance, Global Compliance and Reporting Group. He coordinates the firm's provision of a wide variety of tax compliance, audit and advisory services for global foreign and Japanese multinational clients. He has previously served as the Co-Chair of the Taxation Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan. Prior to joining Ernst & Young, Prof. Miller served as general counsel to NCR Japan and as an international tax attorney at Exxon Company. He further served as a judicial intern to the U.S. Supreme Court. Prof. Miller earned his Masters of Law in Taxation from Boston University, and his Juris Doctor and Bachelor of Science degrees from Brigham Young University. He is admitted to practice in Utah and Texas.

Katsuya Natori, General Counsel
I.B.M. Japan
M.B.A., 1993, Graduate School of Business Administration, Georgetown University
LL.M., 1990, Graduate School of Law, University of Washington
Admitted to the Japanese Bar, 1986
B.A., 1982, Keio University

Katsuya Natori presently serves as General Counsel for I.B.M. Japan. Prior to joining IBM, Professor Natori applied his international and legal expertise as General Counsel for Uniqlo (2000-2003), Sun Microsystems Japan (1997-2000), General Counsel for Apple Japan (1995-1997), and Counsel for Exxon Japan (1993-1995). He majored in Economics at Keio University, Tokyo (B.A. granted in 1982) and soon thereafter passed the Japanese bar examination. Professor Natori was admitted to the Japanese Bar Association in 1986, after which he worked as an associate attorney at Asahi Law Offices (former Masuda & Ejiri) for three years. Driven by the desire to internationalize his education, Professor Natori acquired an LL.M. degree from the University of Washington School of Law in 1989 as well as an M.B.A. degree from Georgetown University Business School in 1993. Professor Natori also has experience working as a visiting attorney at Davis Wright Tremaine in Seattle and Wilmer, Cutler, & Pickering in Washington D.C.

Dean Page, CEO
Foreya Partners

Dean Page is CEO of Foreya Partners, a Tokyo based venture capital and private equity firm. His career in Asia stretches over nearly 15 years, focused on providing accounting, tax, and business advice to foreign companies doing business in Asia. Dean worked for nearly seven years in the Big 4, most recently as a partner in the Business Tax Advisory group at Ernst & Young (E&Y) in Japan. While at E&Y he served as the inbound tax account leader (TAL) in which role he had broad responsibility for EYs relationships with its foreign multinational clients. At PricewaterhouseCoopers Japan (PwC) Dean headed the Pathfinder Group, a team that specialized in assisting foreign companies to set up in Japan. He also headed the PwC Global Visa Solutions group in Japan.

Dean is admitted as both an Attorney (England/Wales & Australia) and as a CPA (U.S. & Australia). He teaches International Tax in the law school at Temple University in Japan where he has acted as an Adjunct Professor since 2001.

Paul Previtera, Senior International Tax Manager
Ernst & Young

Paul is a senior manager in Ernst & Young Japan's Tax practice. He has more than ten years experience assisting primarily US clients in the structuring of their international operations. Prior to joining EY, he worked in the international tax group of Grant Thornton Japan, where he headed the firm's real estate tax advisory group. Prior to GT, he worked with a boutique international tax advisory firm in Tokyo. Paul has published numerous articles on international tax and is the Japan correspondent for Tax Notes International. He is a regular speaker at both the American Chamber of Commerce (ACCJ) and the Australia and New Zealand Chamber of Commerce in Japan (ANZCCJ) and he chairs the ANZCCJ Finance & Tax sub-committee. He is admitted as an attorney in both the United States and Australia and holds a Masters of tax from the University of New South Wales. Paul co-heads the International Tax Education Program (ITEP) at Temple University Japan where he acts as an Adjunct Professor.

Grant B. Stillman, Legal Advisor
Asian Development Bank Institute
Ph.D. in International Relations, 1991, Monash University (Melbourne)
LL.M. in International & Comparative Law, 1985, Georgetown University Law Center
B.A./LL.B. (Hons), 1983, University of Melbourne

Grant Stillman presently serves as the Legal Adviser and Senior Administrative Officer of the Asian Development Bank Institute, a nonprofit international organization based in Tokyo. His doctorate in International Relations was awarded by Monash University and he obtained a Masters in Public and Private International & Comparative Law while studying as a fellow at Georgetown Law Center. He also served as a Monbusho Post-Graduate Research Fellow at the Graduate School of International Politics, Economics & Business of Aoyama Gakuin University between 1993 and 1995. Dr. Stillman is admitted to the bar in New York and Australia. He has also worked in the United Nations system, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and the New York head office of the distinguished law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher, & Flom. He has recently returned from a midcareer sabbatical at the Geneva Institute for Advanced International and Development Studies (HEI), where he completed his book on global NGOs. In compiling over 25 years experience in international and community law, Dr. Stillman has applied his legal skills in the United States, Japan, Australia, France, Switzerland and the Philippines. For TUJ he has taught public international law, international trade law, and NGO law and governance.

Erika Takeuchi
Asia Pacific Intellectual Property Attorney at Dow Corning Toray
J.D., 2000, Columbia Law School
Ph.D. (Biochemistry), 1993, The Ohio State University
B.Agr., 1984, University of Tokyo

As one of the three attorneys at the global Dow Corning Corporation, Prof. Takeuchi is responsible for managing, protecting and fully utilizing intellectual property in the Asia/Pacific region. She previously worked as an Associate at Ropes & Grey, and was among the starting members for the firm's Tokyo office. Her practice covered a wide array of patent related matters, mainly in pharmaceutical, chemical, and biotech areas, ranging from patent drafting to negotiating joint research agreements, in addition to more traditional corporate law matters such as assisting acquisition of companies. Prior to that, she served as an attorney at Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto. Prior to law school, Prof. Takeuchi was a research scientist at New York University, a chemist at Novozymes Japan, and had a postdoctoral fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Sidney H. Weeks, Vice President and General Counsel
KVH Co., Ltd.
LL.M., 2003, Temple Law School
J.D., 1996, Ohio Northern University College of Law
B.A., 1989, Duke University

Professor Weeks, Vice President and General Counsel for KVH Co., Ltd., has acquired substantial intellectual property and international experience through his law career in the United States and Japan. Professor Weeks has lived and practiced law in Japan for several years including working for his present company, at the law firm of Anderson, Mori & Tomotsune, as well as serving as in house counsel in the Intellectual Property Division of Toshiba Corporation in Tokyo. Prior to joining Toshiba, Mr. Weeks gained patent litigation experience at Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto, in New York City. He also served in the Legal Department of Starbucks Corporation Headquarters, focusing on worldwide IP registration and protection. At Temple University, Japan Campus, he teaches law and practice courses on topics relating to IP, Cyberlaw, and Contract Law. Professor Weeks is fluent in Japanese and is admitted as an attorney in New York, New Jersey and Washington.

Tatsuo Yoshikawa, General Counsel
Apple Japan, Inc., Tokyo
LL.M., 1992, Georgetown Law School
LL.B., 1984, Sophia University School of Law

As director and general counsel of Apple Japan, Inc., Professor Yoshikawa is leading the Apple Japan legal department in Japan. He presently teaches law at three different Japanese Universities, and has recently joined Temple Law as an adjunct faculty member. Professor Yoshikawa spent 14 years in the legal department of ITOCHU Corporation, where he was involved in many international transactions including mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures. He participated in many negotiations with U.S., European, and multinational corporations. Professor Yoshikawa is a licensed New York attorney. During his two years in the United States, Professor Yoshikawa served as foreign intern at Howrey & Simon and Willkie Farr & Gallagher, Washington D.C. He is fluent in English and Japanese.

Stanley Yukevich, Partner
Morrison & Foerster
J.D., 1983, University of California, Los Angeles
B.A. (magna cum laude), 1986, Harvard University

Professor Stan Yukevich is a partner at the Tokyo office of Morrison & Foerster. He lectures on international contract drafting, securities, and related matters. Professor Yukevich's legal practice focuses on business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic alliances, equity investments and securities offerings. He is a member of the State Bar of California. He received his undergraduate degree magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1986 and his law degree from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1993, where he was Chief Articles Editor of the UCLA Pacific Basin Law Journal.