Sharon K. Sandeen
Associate Professor of Law
ssandeen@gw.hamline.edu
651 523-2762
B.A., University of California, Berkeley
J.D., University of the Pacific, McGeorge
LL.M., University of California Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law
Areas of legal expertise: U.S. and International Intellectual Property Law, Computer and Internet Law, Unfair Trade Practices,
Associate Professor Sandeen practiced law for more than 15 years and served as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Pacific, McGeorge School of Law for five years before coming to Hamline in the fall of 2002. She has taught courses in Intellectual Property and Unfair Competition, Trademark Law, Copyright Law, International Intellectual Property, Computer and Internet Law, E-Commerce.
Upon graduating from law school in 1985, she focused her practice on trademark and trade secret law and intellectual property litigation. An active member of the federal bar during her years of practice, Associate Professor Sandeen served on the Civil Justice Advisory Group for the U.S. District Courts, Eastern District of California, and as a lawyer representative to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference.
She is a founding member of the Intellectual Property Section of the Sacramento County Bar and a former member of the Executive Committee of the State Bar of California, Intellectual Property Law Section. She currently co-chairs the Intellectual Property Desk Book Working Group of the Intellectual Property Committee of the Section of Business Law of the American Bar Association. Associate Professor Sandeen also serves as chair of the Subcommittee D of the Trade Secret Committee (Committe 410) of the Intellectual Property Section of the American Bar Association.
Selected Publications
- Relative Privacy: What Privacy Advocates Can Learn from Trade Secret Law, 2006 Michigan State Law Review 667
- A Contract by Any Other Name is Still a Contract: Examining the Effectiveness of Trade Secret Clauses to Protect Databases, 45 IDEA 119 (2005) | PDF
- Defenders of Small Business?: A Perspective on the Supreme Court’s Recent Trademark Jurisprudence, 30 William Mitchell Law Review 1705 (2004) | PDF
- The Sense and Nonsense of Web Site Terms of Use Agreements, 26 Hamline Law Review 499 (2003) | PDF
- In for a Calf is not Always in for a Cow: An Analysis of the Constitutional Right of Anonymity as Applied to Anonymous E-Commerce, 29 Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 527 (2002) | PDF
- Preserving the Public Trust in State-Owned Intellectual Property: A Recommendation for Legislative Action, 32 McGeorge Law Review 385 (2001) | PDF
- Conflicting Rights: Intellectual Property Litigation and the Privilege Against Self Incrimination, 3 Proprietary Rights Journal 9 (1991)
