Curriculum Vitae
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EDUCATION

Harvard Business School, Boston, Massachusetts
     Doctorate in Business Administration (Technology and Operations Management)
       Thesis: Essays in Intellectual Management


6/04
Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts
     Juris Doctor, cum laude
       Harvard Journal of Law and Technology (Managing Editor); Harvard Negotiation Law Review (Editor);
       Olin Fellowship in Law and Economics; Native American Law Students Association (President)

6/02

Rice University, Houston, Texas
     Master of Business Administration, Management Information Systems
     Bachelor of Arts, Managerial Studies
       National Merit Scholar, President’s Honor Roll, National Engineering Deans’ List


5/92

5/91
   

ACADEMIC POSITIONS


University of Houston Law Center
     
Associate Professor
      Courses in:  Corporations, Intellectual Property Strategy and Management, American Indian Law
9/08-present
University of Michigan
     
Assistant Professor, School of Information (promoted to tenure track as of 9/1/06)
     Visiting Professor, School of Law
     Faculty Affiliate, Native American Studies
        Courses in: Intellectual Property Strategy and Management, American Indian Law
8/03-8/08

Harvard University
     
 Harvard Law School
       Reginald F. Lewis Fellow for Law Teaching
       Teaching Fellow for Intellectual Property in Cyberspace



8/02-8/03

1/00-5/00

Harvard Business School
     1665 Harvard University Native American Program Fellowship
     John M. Olin Research Fellowship in Law, Economics, and Business
     National President, Information Systems Doctoral Students Association
     KPMG Fellow
     Teaching Fellow for Building Information Age Businesses


8/01-6/03

8/01-6/03   

8/99-8/01

8/98-6/03
5/98-12/98

Rice University
     Lecturer, Department of Computer Science
      Courses in: Computer Science, Systems Analysis and Design, Information Systems


8/91-5/98
University of St. Thomas
     Lecturer, Department of Management Information Systems
       Course: Introduction to Management Information Systems
8/97-5/98
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS

     Journal Publications and Conference Preceedings
       Clarkson, G., Wall Street Indians: Information Asymmetry and Barriers to Tribal Capital Market Access. Lewis and Clark Law Review (forthcoming 2009)
       Clarkson, G., Accredited Indians: Increasing the Flow of Private Equity into Indian Country as a Domestic Emerging Market, 80 Colorado L Rev. (forthcoming 2008)
       E. A. Leicht, G. Clarkson, K. Shedden, and M. E. J. Newman, Large-scale Structure of Time Evolving Citation Networks, European Physics Journal B 75–83 (2007)
       Clarkson, G., Jacobsen, T., Batcheller, A., Information Asymmetry and Information Sharing,24 Government Information Quarterly 827-839 (2007).
       Clarkson, G., Cyberinfrastructure and Patent Thickets: Challenges and Responses, First Monday, v12, n6, http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue12_6/clarkson/index.html (June 2007)
       Clarkson, G., Capital and Finance Issues in Tribal Economic Development, Proceedings of the National Native American Economic Policy Summit, May 15, 2007, National Congress of American Indians
       Clarkson, G., Tribal Bonds: Statutory Shackles and Regulatory Restraints on Tribal Economic Development, 85 N.C. L. Rev. 1009 (2007)
       Clarkson G., Van Alstyne, M. V., The Social Efficiency of Fairness: An Information Economics Approach to Innovation, Proceedings of the 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (CD-ROM), January 4, 2007, Computer Society Press
       Bagley, C., Clarkson, G., Adverse Possession for Intellectual Property: Adapting an Ancient Concept to Resolve Conflicts Between Antitrust and Intellectual Property Laws in the Information Age, 16 Harv J.L. & Tech. 327 (2003)
            Selected as one of the best Intellectual Property articles of 2004 by the editorial review board of the 2004 Intellectual Property Law Review
       Clarkson, G., Racial Imagery and Native Americans: A First Look at the Empirical Evidence Behind the Indian Mascot Controversy, 11 Cardozo J. Int’l & Comp. L. 393 (2003)
       Clarkson, G., Not Because they are Brown, but because of Ea: Why the Good Guys Lost in Rice v. Cayetano, and Why They Didn’t Have to Lose, 7 Mich J. Race & L. 318 (2002)
       Clarkson, G., Reclaiming Jurisprudential Sovereignty: A Tribal Judiciary Analysis, 50 U. Kans. L. Rev. 473 (2002)
       Clarkson, G., Avoiding Suboptimal Behavior in Intellectual Asset Transactions: Economic and Organizational Perspectives on the Sale of Knowledge, 14 Harv. J.L. & Tech. 711 (2001)
Best Paper, Foley & Lardner Intellectual Property Law Writing Competition, 2001
       Clarkson, G., Recent Developments: Rice v. Cayetano, 24 Harv. J. L. & Pub. Pol'y 921 (2001)
       Clarkson, G., Required Reading for the Y2K Tsunami, 13 Harv. J.L. & Tech. 151 (1999)  
       Clarkson, G., The Y2K Tsunami, 5 B.U. J. Sci. & Tech. L. 3 (1999)
     Supreme Court, Amicus, and Appellate Briefs
       Amicus Curiae, Narragansett Indian Tribe v. State of Rhode Island, 296 F. Supp. 2d 153 (2003)
       Briefing clerk, Nevada v. Hicks, (99-1994) 533 US 353 (2001)
     Books and Book Chapters
       Clarkson, G., DeKorte, D., The Problem of Patent Thickets in Convergent Technologies, in Progress in Convergence: Technologies for Human Wellbeing (William S. Bainbridge, ed), 1093 Annals of the New York Academy of Science 180-200
       Chapters on Rice v. Cayetano, Morton v. Mancari, and The Curtis Act  of 1898 in Treaties with American Indians: An Encyclopedia of Rights, Conflicts, and Sovereignty (Donald L. Fixico, ed., ABC-CLIO, 2006)
       Chapters on Intellectual Property, Tribal Finance, and Organizational Forms for Economic Development, Cohen's Handbook Federal Indian Law 2005 Edition (N. J. Newton, R. Anderson, C. Goldberg, J. LaVelle, J. V. Royster, J. W. Singer, R. Strickland, eds.)
       Bagley, C., Clarkson, G., Crossing the Great Divide: Using Adverse Possession to Resolve Conflicts Between the Antitrust and Intellectual Property Regimes, in Advances in the Study of Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Economic Growth, Volume 15:  Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship (G. Libecap, ed., JAI Press, 2004)
       Chapter on Native Hawaiian Sovereignty, in Indigenous Peoples, the Environment and Law (L. Watters, ed., Carolina Academic Press, 2004)
Contributing author for Apple Software for Pennies, B. Gader & M. Nodar, eds. (Warner Books, 1985)
     Congressional Testimony
       Testified before the Senate Finance Committee on May 23, 2006 regarding discrimination against tribal governments in terms of their ability to access the capital markets relative to their state and local governmental counterparts.
     Conference and Invited Presentations
       Panelist, Tribal Finance, National Native American Economic Policy Summit, May 2007
       “Patent Informatics and Standard Setting Organizations,” IBM Headquarters, Armonk, NY, March 2007
       “Patent Informatics for Patent Thicket Detection: A Network Analytic Approach for Measuring the Density of Patent Space,” Global Business Institute Seminar on Cross Disciplinary Strategy, New York University, March 2007
        “Tribal Bondage: Statutory and Regulatory Restraint on Tribal Economic Development,” 3rd Annual Miccosukee Indian Law Conference, March, 2007
       “Information Ethics and Traditional Knowledge,” Information Ethics Roundtable, March 2007
       “Patent Thickets, Patent Pools, and Community Patent Review,” Designing Cyberinfrastructure for Innovation and Collaboration, National Academy of Science, January 2007
       “Research on Tribal Finance,” 6th Semi-Annual National Native American Finance Conference, February 2007
       “Economic Requirements for Indigenous Federalism,” Federalism And The Rights Of Indigenous Peoples: Comparative Perspectives And Strategies, University of Hawaii Law School, January 2007
       Panelist, The New Realism: The Next Generation of Scholarship in Federal Indian Law, University of California at Berkeley, November 2006
       “Research on Tribal Finance,” American Indian Science and Engineering Society Annual Conference, November 2006
       “Research on Tribal Finance,” A Celebration of Native Alumni, Harvard Law School, October 2006
       “Research on Tribal Finance,” 5th Semi-Annual National Native American Finance Conference, October 2006
       “Tribal Bondage: Statutory and Regulatory Restraint on Tribal Economic Development,” 64th Annual Convention of the National Congress of American Indians, October 2006
       “Tribal Bondage: Statutory and Regulatory Restraint on Tribal Economic Development,” National Association of Bond Lawyers, Chicago, October 2006
       “Research on Tribal Finance,” Diversity In Business Research Conference, University of Washington, September 2006
       “Tribal Bondage: Statutory and Regulatory Restraint on Tribal Economic Development,” National Intertribal Tax Alliance, August 2006
        “Posting ‘Keep Out’ Signs on an IP Portfolio: Strategies for Warding Off Imitative Search,” Academy of Management, August 2006
       “Nanothickets and Nanopools: A Small Suggestion for Promoting Innovation,” Academy of Management, August 2006
       “Deep Links: Business School Students’ Perceptions of the Role of Law and Ethics in Business,” Academy of Management, August 2006
       “The Problem of Patent Thickets in Nanotechnology,” Nanotechnology in Business and Society, August 2006
       “Racism in the Tax Code,” National Congress of American Indians Mid-year meeting, June, 2006
       Panelist on Tribal Finance, 4th Semi-Annual National Native American Finance Conference, March 2006
        “The Social Efficiency of Fairness: An Information Economics Approach to Innovation,” TPRC, September  2005
       “Patent Informatics for Patent Thicket Detection: A Network Analytic Approach for Measuring the Density of Patent Space,” Academy of Management, August 2005
       “Blunt Machetes in the Patent Thicket: 100 Years of Patent Pools and Antitrust Enforcement,” Academy of Management, August 2005
       Panelist on Tribal Finance, 3nd National Native American Tribal Finance Conference, June 2005
        “Patent Thickets in Nanotechnology,” 3rd Annual Conference on Converging Technologies, February 2005
       Panelist on Tribal Finance, 2nd National Native American Tribal Finance Conference, January 2005
       “Fundamentals of Tribal Finance,” Native American Finance Officers Association Conference, June, 2004
       Panelist on Traditional Knowledge, Intellectual Property, Sustainable Development, and Endangered Species: Understanding the Dynamics of the Information Ecosystem, Michigan State, March, 2004
       Panelist on Traditional Knowledge, Indigenous Peoples in International Fora, University of Michigan Law School, March, 2004
       Panelist on Tribal Finance, National Native American Tribal Finance Conference, February, 2004
       “Tribal/State Negotiations: Applying the Lessons from Foxwoods,” Native Issues Research Symposium, Harvard University Native American Program, December, 2003
       “Tribal Identity as an Intellectual Asset,” Indigenous Peoples and Multilateral Trade Regimes: Navigating New Opportunities for Advocacy, New York University School of Law, May, 2002
       Panelist on Folklore Issues, The Copyright Conference, April, 2002, USPTO
       “Racial Imagery and Native Americans: A First Look at the Empirical Evidence Behind the Indian Mascot Controversy,” Traditional Knowledge, Intellectual Property, and Indigenous Culture, Cardozo Law School, February, 2002
       “Federalism and Division of Powers: The Effects of Nevada v. Hicks,” Native Americans and the Constitution, University of Pennsylvania Law School, February, 2002
       “Potential Corporate Officer and Director Liability for Y2K,” Lex Millenniale, London, October, 1999
       “Information Technology among Indigenous Populations,” Keynote Address, Learning IT Together, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, Brisbane, Australia, April, 1999
     Harvard Business School Publications
       The Intellectual Property Exchange (A), HBS# 801-176
       The Intellectual Property Exchange (B), HBS# 801-177
       Intellectual Asset Valuation, HBS# 801-192
     Working and Discussion Papers
       Blunt Machetes in the Patent Thicket: 100 Years of Patent Pools and Antitrust Enforcement
       Sharper Machetes for the Patent Thicket: Objective Criteria for Antitrust Evaluations of Patent Pools
       Optimal Structures in Contingent Licensing Contracts
       Leveraging Tribal Sovereignty for Economic Opportunity: A Strategic Negotiations Perspective
       Redskins and Seminoles: An Empirical Analysis of Indian Mascot Usage
       Elevating Relevance in Native American Studies
       Rekindling Jurisprudential Sovereignty on Noepe: A Case Study on the Establishment of the Aquinnah Wampanoag Judiciary, awarded 3rd Place, American Indian Law Review Writing Competition, 2002

AWARDS AND GRANTS

     National Science Foundation, IIS 0712941, “Tribal Finance Information Clearinghouse,” 2007
     National Institute of Justice, 2007-WG-BX-001, “Intergovernmental Tracking System,” 2007
     IBM Faculty Award, 2007, 2008
     National Science Foundation, IIS 0534905, “The Tribal Finance Information Clearinghouse,” 2006
     National Science Foundation, CNS 0540468 “Center for American Indian Research Opportunity in Computing” 2006
     National Science Foundation, IIS 0534903 “Patent Cartography: Improving the Process of Searching Through the Patent Thicket,” 2005
     National Science Foundation, IIS 0618526 “Patent Informatics for Patent Thicket Detection” 2004
     University of Michigan nominee, Microsoft New Faculty Fellowship, 2004
     National Science Foundation, IIS 0425116, “Identification and Measurement of Patent Thickets,” 2004
     Grant from Compaq to develop distributed learning methodologies for higher education, 1997
     Grant from Infotec to develop distributed learning methodologies for corporate education, 1997
     PC Week Labs On-Site, Distance Learning Technology Shootout, 2nd Place, August 1997
     DEVCON, Database Development World Championships, 3rd Place, 1993

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

     Academy of Management
     Academy of Legal Studies in Business
     American Indian Science and Engineering Society
     Licensing Executives Society

 
PROFESSIONAL LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONS

     Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Series 7, 24, and 66 Licenses

 
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

     Chairman, American Indian Science and Engineering Society Foundation

2005 to 2009
 
PERSONAL

     Enrolled member, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
     Gold Medal, Open Rhythm, National DanceSport Championships, 1996
     Silver Medal, Open Smooth, National DanceSport Championships, 1996