Professor

Research Interests

Copyright; International BusinessTransactions; International Intellectual Property Law

Education

J.D. University of Chicago
B.A., M.A. University of Illinois

Additional Campus Affiliations

Albert J. Harno and Edward W. Cleary Chair Emeritus, College of Law
Professor Emeritus, College of Law
Research Professor, College of Law

Recent Publications

Sahli, M., Cuntz, A., & Heald, P. J. (2026). Digital reuse and online availability of visual artworks. Information Economics and Policy, 73, Article 101172. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infoecopol.2026.101172

Heald, P. J. (2021). The Impact of Implementing a 25-Year Reversion/Termination Right in Canada. The Journal of Intellectual Property Law, 28(1), 63-92. https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/jipl/vol28/iss1/3

Heald, P. J. (2020). Copy This Book!: What Data Tells Us about Copyright and the Public Good. Stanford University Press.

Heald, P. J. (2019). Christian Libertarianism and the Curious Lack of Religious Objections to the Patenting of Life Forms in the United States. In T. C. Berg, R. Cholij, & S. Ravenscroft (Eds.), Patents on Life: Religious, Moral, and Social Justice Aspects of Biotechnology and Intellectual Property (pp. 152-164). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2845556, https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108659802.009

Heald, P. J. (2019). Ranking the Reputation of 100 American Law Schools. Jurimetrics, 60(1), 1-40. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3483325

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