Joseph Liu

Joseph P. Liu is a professor at Boston College Law School. He has published a number of papers and articles on the subjects of intellectual property law, law and the internet, and internet regulation.

Liu was born in Seattle, Washington. In 1989, he received his B.A. in Physics and Philosophy from Yale University. In 1994, he received his J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Columbia Law Review.

After law school, he worked as clerk to Judge Levin H. Campbell of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. He then worked as a litigator at Foley, Hoag & Eliot in Boston, Massachusetts, specializing in intellectual property litigation, securities litigation, and white collar criminal defense.

In 1999, Liu was appointed assistant professor at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. He has served as Vice President and General Counsel at BuyerZone, a business-to-business Internet start-up company. He also served as a Climenko Teaching Fellow in the Lawyering Program at Harvard Law School from 1997–1998.