Professor Charles R. McManis is the Thomas and Karole Green Professor of Law at Washington University at St Louis.
Professor McManis earned an undergraduate degree from Birmingham-Southern College (1964) and his M.A. and J.D. degrees from Duke University (1972) where he was a Duke Scholar.
Professor McManis is active nationally and internationally in the area of intellectual property law. He has taught and done research in universities throughout the United States and Asia. He was an exchange professor at Yonsei University in Seoul (1997) and at Sichuan University in Chengdu, China (1989). For more than 10 years, he has been a visiting lecturer at Nihon University College of Law and Economics and at the Japan Institute for International Business Law. He also made Fulbright Fellowship visits to Korea to lecture and do research at the International Intellectual Property Training Institute in Taejon (1993-1994). He was awarded the Distinguished Teaching Award by the School of Law Alumni Association (2001) and Teacher of the Year.
As a consultant for the World Intellectual Property Organization, Professor McManis has taught seminars in India, Korea, and China, and was a member of the Asia Pacific Legal Institute delegation to the 68th Biennial Conference of the International Law Association in Taipei, Taiwan (1998).
He co-chaired the Conference on "Patenting Genetic Products" presented by the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies at the School of Law and the Genome Sequencing Center at the School of Medicine (April 2002). This conference was part of Washington University's series on Law and the Human Genome Project. He also co-organized an inter-disciplinary conference on "Biodiversity, Biotechnology and the Protection of Traditional Knowledge" at the School of Law, while teaching a related course for law students on the interface between international intellectual property and environmental protection (April 2003).
Professor McManis is author of the book Intellectual Property & Unfair Competition in a Nutshell, now in its fourth edition. He is also co-author of Licensing of the Intellectual Property in the Digital Age. His forthcoming book, Cases and Materials on the International Aspects of Intellectual Property Law (with Marshall Leaffer, Kenneth Port and others) will be published by Carolina Academic Press.