Colleen Chien joined the Santa Clara University Law School faculty as an Assistant Professor of Law in the fall of 2007. Prior to her appointment, she was an associate, then Special Counsel, at Fenwick & West LLP in San Francisco, California, and a Fellow at the Center for Law and the Biosciences at Stanford Law School. She also served as an adviser to the School of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and worked as a spacecraft engineer at NASA/Jet Propulsion Lab. She worked as an investigative journalist at the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism as a Fulbright Scholar in 1997.

Professor Chien's research focuses on patent law and international intellectual property law, with an emphasis on empirical research. Current publications include "Patently Protectionist? An Empirical Analysis of Patent Cases at the International Trade Commission" (forthcoming 50 William & Mary Law Review ___ (2008)) and "HIV/AIDS Drugs for Sub-Saharan Africa: How Do Brand and Generic Supply Compare?" (plosONE, 2007; 2 (3):e278)); previously, she has published in the Hastings Law Journal, the Berkeley Technology Law Journal, and Nature Biotechnology on various national and international patent law topics.

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