Professor Anna Han

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I started teaching here at Santa Clara in 1989. Over the years, I have taught courses such as International Business Transactions, Remedies and Contracts. Currently, I'm teaching Business Organizations, Chinese Trade and Investment Law, Technology Licensing and Legal Issues of Start-up Businesses.

My courses reflect both my practice experience and my interests. For a number of years, I practiced in Shanghai, China, advising foreign companies doing business there. The transactions often involved licensing technology and setting up joint ventures. I have the dubious distinction of being the first foreign attorney to setup an office in Shanghai. More recently, I served as counsel to White & Case, an international law firm working on China matters.

My research primarily involves exploring Chinese laws and how these laws are changing as China changes its economic system. My latest work is 4 chapters on China’s rapidly developing IP laws, covering Patents. Trademarks, Copyright and Domain names. The chapters are in Business Law in China, published by the ICC in Paris. I have also written on legal issues of franchising in China and contributed a chapter to Global Critical Race Feminism, an international anthology. At present, I am working on a casebook for Doing Business in China.