Lance Rose, previously a pioneer attorney in the computer and Internet law fields, and now a full-time business and legal consultant, is also the author of the seminal NetLaw, the third edition of the world%u2019s first book on the laws of the Internet and cyberspace. During his time in private practice, Lance wrote for major publications such as Wired Magazine, Silicon Alley Reporter, and ComputerWorld, and for books such as Internet Unleashed and Electronic Publishing Unleashed; lectured at forums around the country, including the Library of Congress, Copyright Society of the USA and the Internet Society; founded and chaired the first major online law conference series in the world, "Legal and Business Aspects of the Internet", sponsored by the National Law Journal; and advised and represented many software developers, electronic publishers, and other technology related companies.

Kim, Yun Haeng was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Korea from April 2, 1973 to August 8, 1980.

Professor Richard Brooks, founding director of Vermont Law School's Environmental Law Center, is an internationally recognized scholar of environmental law and policy. The courses he has taught at Vermont Law School include Air Pollution Law, Coastal Management Law, Comparative Law, Environmental Law, Environmental Ethics, Land Use Law, Population Law, Professional Responsibility, and Torts. He also served as the coordinator of Vermont Law School's Foreign, International and Comparative Law Program.

Raymond T. Nimmer is currently the Leonard Childs Professor of Law at the University of Houston Law Center and co-director of the Houston Intellectual Property and Information Law Institute.

The author of twenty books and numerous articles, the first edition of his book The Law of Computer Technology received a national book award from the Association of American Publishers in 1985 and is currently in its third edition. He has also published a book on Information Law (West) and The Law of Electronic Commercial Transactions (Pratt & Sons, 2003) with Holly Towle. His most recent book, published in 2005 by West, is Modern Licensing Law, coauthored with Jeff Dodd. It is in its second edition.

Professor Nimmer is a frequent speaker at programs in this country and overseas in the areas of intellectual property, business and technology law. He was the co Reporter to the Drafting Committee on Revision of U.C.C. Article 2 and the reporter for the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA). He is a consultant to the National Science Foundation and the Office of the Legal Advisor of the U.S. State Department. In addition to his expertise in technology issues, he is a expert in areas of business law. He is the author of a four volume treatise on Commercial Asset Based Financing and was a Contributing Editor for a leading multi volume treatise on bankruptcy law.

He is admitted to practice in Illinois and Texas as well as the United States Supreme Court. He is as a member of the American Law Institute, the Texas Bar Foundation, and the American College of Commercial Finance Attorneys. He is listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in Law, the International Who's Who of Internet Lawyers, and the International Who's Who of Business Lawyers.

Taught for 32 years of teaching at the Southern University Law Center. Well known for his research in law and artificial intelligence, he has been awarded some $300,000 in grants from the NASA Ames Research Center to develop interactive classification technology, automated reasoning technology, and automated cognitive functions. Over his career, deBessonet%u2019s research in this area also has been supported by a number of grants, totaling more than $1.2 million, awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation, and the Louisiana State Board of Regents. He has numerous publications, including his book, A Many-Valued Approach to Deduction and Reasoning for Artificial Intelligence, in 1991.

Richard Lorr, Assistant Chief Counsel for Ship Financing, Maritime Administration, US Department of Transportation

Evan H. Farr, J.D., CEA, is the Principal Attorney of The Law Firm of Evan H. Farr, P.C, and has earned the prestigious Certified Estate Advisor designation from the National Association of Financial and Estate Planning.* Evan Farr is also a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, and the AARP Legal Services Network. The Northern Virginia Law Page went on-line in June, 1995, becoming the first law firm Web site in Virginia. The Northern Virginia Law Page, is brought to you by the Farr Law Firm. This site remains committed to the use of the Internet to bring people closer to day-to-day legal issues.

Robert Scheinfeld is the head of the intellectual property department in Baker Botts LLP%u2019s New York office. For twenty years, he has practiced intellectual property law and litigation almost exclusively, representing local and international companies as plaintiffs and defendants in patent, copyright, and trade secret misappropriation disputes and lawsuits across the country. Mr. Scheinfeld's litigation representations have resulted in numerous favorable published and unpublished district court and Federal Circuit decisions.

Mr. Scheinfeld's technical expertise is diverse and his representations involve a broad range of fields in the high technology industry, including electronics, data processing and management software, telecommunications, smart cards, electronic commerce, and flash memory.

Since 1995, Mr. Scheinfeld has been the bimonthly patent and trademark columnist for the New York Law Journal, and has published over fifty patent and trademark-related articles addressing the current hot topics of the day. Most of these articles are now accessible online and some are identified below.

From 1991 to 1997, Mr. Scheinfeld also taught patent law as an adjunct professor of law in New York City. He is a frequent speaker on patent-related topics ranging from opinions of counsel in patent cases to business method patents.

Robert Torricelli, a Representative and a Senator from New Jersey; born in Paterson, N.J., August 27, 1951; long-time resident of Englewood, N.J.; graduated from A.B., Rutgers University 1974; J.D., Rutgers School of Law 1988; assistant to the Governor of New Jersey 1975-1977; counsel to Vice President Walter Mondale 1978-1980; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-eighth and to the six succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1983-January 2, 1997); was not a candidate for reelection to the United States House of Representatives in 1996, but was elected to the United States Senate and served from January 3, 1997, to January 3, 2003; renominated in 2002 but withdrew from the race on September 30, 2002.

Allen S. Hammond, IV. Professor of Law at the Santa Clara University School of Law and Director of the Broadband Institute of California. He has written one book, Making universal service policy : enhancing the process through multidisciplinary evaluation. Cherry, Wildman and Hammond, editors. L. Erlbaum Associates (1999). He has had a number of articles and chapters published, including articles in the Federal Communication Law Journal, Santa Clara Computer and High-Technology Law Journal, Hastings Communications and Entertainment Law Journal (Comm-Ent), Cardozo Arts and Entertainment Law Journal, Yale Journal on Regulation, University of Pittsburgh Law Review, Arkansas Law Review, and the Catholic University Law Review.

Richard O. Zerbe is a Professor of Public Affairs and Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Washington. He specializes in benefit cost analysis, environmental economics, and the organization of industry. He is co-author of the world's best-selling textbook and reference on benefit-cost analysis, Benefit-Cost Analysis in Theory and Practice (Harper Collins, 1994). He is a member of the executive committee of the Western Economics Association and is editor of the Journal of Research in Law and Economics.

F. Reed Dickerson, a former law professor and Pentagon lawyer who helped codify United States military law in the 1950's,.  Mr. Dickerson was deputy assistant general counsel of the Defense Department from 1950 to 1958, when he joined the faculty at Indiana University Law School. He retired in 1980., died in 1991.

Mr. Francis Gilligan is the senior legal adviser to Judge Susan J. Crawford of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. Formerly, he served as the chief trial judge for the U.S. Army. Currently, he is the Professorial Lecturer in Law at The George Washington University.