Thomas Ward

Biography

Professor Ward is an enthusiastic teacher who makes the workings of the law in business and commerce come alive for his students. He teaches Contracts, Commercial Law and Intellectual Property at Maine Law.

In 1976 Professor Ward came to Maine after private practice in Burlington, Vermont and four years of law teaching at the University of South Carolina. From the start, he was happy about his move to Maine. He believes that the Law School's small, high caliber student body provides a great incubator for teaching. While he remains firmly attached to Maine, Professor Ward is active and well regarded nationwide. He has been a Visiting Professor at Illinois, Notre Dame, and Seattle University. Professor Ward and his family spent the 1984-85 academic year in Ireland when he was selected to be the Jefferson Smurfit Visiting Professor of Business Law at University College Galway. In addition to summer school assignments at Illinois, Boston College, Northeastern, South Carolina and Lewis & Clark, he is a regular faculty member of the Intellectual Property Summer Institute at the Franklin Pierce Law Center.

Professor Ward currently serves as co-chair of the ABA Subcommittee on Intellectual Property Financing and as a research fellow for the Licensing Executives Society (USA and Canada). Professor Ward's published work covers a broad range of topics in the areas of commercial law, bankruptcy and intellectual property.