Law Building 325
Education
- Yale University B.A. 1990
- Columbia University M.Arch. 1995
- Stanford University J.D. 2002
Courses
- Patent Law (B743)
- Survey of Intellectual Property (B751)
- Seminar in Intellectual Property (L730)
- Law and the Architecture of Urban Planning (B572)
- Seminar in Law @amp; Architecture of the Urban Society (L640)
Background
- Kevin E. Collins graduated summa cum laude from Yale College in 1990 with a bachelor's degree in Architecture and Melecular Biophysics and Biochemistry. He received his JD from Stanford Law School in 2002, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif and served as articles editor of the Stanford Law Review.
- Clerk to the Hon. Raymond C. Clevenger, III of the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, Washington, D.C. (2003-2004)
- Clerk to the Hon. Sonia Sotomayor of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, New York, N.Y. (2002-2003)
- Project Architect and Lead Designer, Bernard Tschumi Architects, New York and Paris (1995-1999)
- Yale College Visiting Lecturer, Residential College Seminar Program
Biography
- Kevin E. Collins graduated summa cum laude from Yale College in 1990 with a bachelor's degree in Architecture and Melecular Biophysics and Biochemistry. He received his JD from Stanford Law School in 2002, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif and served as articles editor of the Stanford Law Review.
- Clerk to the Hon. Raymond C. Clevenger, III of the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, Washington, D.C. (2003-2004)
- Clerk to the Hon. Sonia Sotomayor of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, New York, N.Y. (2002-2003)
- Project Architect and Lead Designer, Bernard Tschumi Architects, New York and Paris (1995-1999)
- Yale College Visiting Lecturer, Residential College Seminar Program
Professor Collins joined the faculty of the Indiana University Maurer School of Law in 2004, bringing a diverse range of academic and professional experience to his scholarship and teaching. With an undergraduate degree from Yale in Molecular Biochemistry and Biophysics, Professor Collins focuses his research primarily on patent law. Most recently he has written articles clustered around two patent law topics: the reach of patent rights into after-arising technologies and the extent to which inventive human thought should be treated as a propertizable resource under the patent regime.
Professor Collins is also interested in the intersection of law and architecture. A registered architect in the state of New York, he earned a master's degree in architecture from Columbia University and spent the next five years as an architect and lead designer with Bernard Tschumi Architects, working on projects in New York and France. He taught a seminar in 20th-century architectural history at Yale College and studio design courses at Columbia's Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation. At the Maurer School of Law, he puts this background to use in a course on Law and Architecture.
Professor Collins earned his JD from Stanford University in 2002. Before beginning his teaching career, he clerked for the Honorable Judge Sonia Sotomayor on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and the Honorable Judge Raymond Clevenger III on the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals.
Interests
- Intellectual property
- Patent
- Copyright
- Law and architecture