Peter K. Yu

Peter K. Yu (余家明) holds the Kern Family Chair in Intellectual Property Law and is the founding director of the Intellectual Property Law Center at Drake University Law School.  He is also a Wenlan Scholar Chair Professor at Zhongnan University of Economics and Law in Wuhan, China.  In the summers, he serves as Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law.  Before joining Drake University, he founded the nationally-renowned Intellectual Property & Communications Law Program at Michigan State University, at which he held faculty appointments in law, communication arts and sciences, and Asian studies.  Born and raised in Hong Kong, Professor Yu is a leading expert in international intellectual property and communications law.  A prolific scholar and an award-winning teacher, he is the author or editor of three books and more than 50 law review articles and book chapters.