!!!Joseph Straus \\ %%(float:left;margin-left:20px;margin-right:30px;) [{Image src='straus_joseph.jpg' alt='Joseph Straus' height='200'}] %% [{AcadMemberDataPlugin}] \\ \\ \\ __Present and Previous Positions__ *2018 Chief Expert of Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Overseas Expertise Introduction Center for Intellectual Property Discipline Innovation in the New Era of Science & Technology Revolution, Wuhan *2015 - 2017 Visiting Professor of Law, Tsinghua University School of Law, Beijing *2011 - 2016 Chair IP Innovation Management, University of South Africa (UNISA), Pretoria *2009 Emeritus Director and Emeritus Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law (now Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition *2001 - 2019 Marshall B. Coyne Visiting Professor of International and Comparative Law, George Washington University, Law School. Washington, D.C. *2003 - 2009 Chair of the Managing Board of the Munich Institute for Intellectual Property Center *2001 - 2009 Director (2001-2003 Managing Director) of the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law, Munich *2005 Distinguished Visiting Professor University of Toronto Faculty of Law *2003 Visiting Fellow of the Hoover Institution at the Stanford University. *1990 Honorary Professor (Honorarprofessor), Faculty of Law, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich *1989 - 1998 Visiting Professor of Law, Cornell Law School, Ithaca, N.Y. *1986 - Titular Full Professor of Intellectual Property Law, University of Ljubljana *1977 - 2001 Senior Research Fellow and Head of Departement, Max-Planck-Institute for Foreign and International Patent-, Copyright and Competition Law, Munich *1968 - 1977 Private practice \\ __Fields of Scholarship__ [{AcadMemberFOScholarshipPlugin}] \\ __Honours and Awards__ *2003 Honorary Doctorates, University of Ljubljana, 2001, University of Kragujevac *Honorary Director of the Intellectual Property Institute of the Tongji University, Shanghai *Honorary Professor Tongji University, Shanghai *Honorary Professor Huazhong University for Science and Technology, Wuhan *Honorary Director of the Chinese-German Institute for Intellectual Property, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan *Honorary Professor, University of Xiamen *Member Academia Europaea (2001), Chair of Law Section (2009 - 2015) *1995 Corresponding Member, Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts *2010 - 2015 Vice President, European Academy of Sciences and Arts *Katz-Kiley Fellow 1999 of the University of Houston Law Center *Science Award 2000 (upon proposal of the Max-Planck Society for the Advancement of Science) of the Foundation for the German Science (Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft) *2005 Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Großes Verdiendstkreuz des Verdienstordens der Bundesrepublik Deutschland) *2006 Honorary Member, International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI) *Venice IP Award 2007 ("Premio Venezia per la Proprietà Intellettuale") *2010 Order of Merits, Republic of Slovenia *2011 Ambassador of Science of the Republic of Slovenia *2013 Honorary Member, Deutsche Vereinigung für gewerblichen Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht (GRUR) *2017 Foreign Member („socio straniero“), Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome *2017 Recognition for the Lifetime Achievements by the Federation of Slovenian Associations of Lawyers" *December 2018 Foreign Member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ANUBIH), Sarajevo \\ \\ %%columns-900 %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/paper_content_pencil_48.png' width='48px' class='image_left'}] [Curriculum Vitae |User/Straus_Joseph/CV] %% ---- %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/book_48.png' class='image_left'}] [Publication list|User/Straus_Joseph/Publications] %% ---- %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/camera_noflash_48.png' width='48px' class='image_left'}] [Highlights of my work and anecdotes|User/Straus_Joseph/Highlight] %% ---- %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/database_48.png' class='image_left'}] -->[Other information|User/Straus_Joseph/OtherInformation] %% %% [{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW edit jstraus}][{ALLOW upload jstraus}][{ALLOW comment All}]