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 Wayne Law professor serving on new commission in Ireland

Wayne State University Law School Professor Stephen Calkins is a member of Ireland’s new Competition and Consumer Protection Commission.

Ireland’s Competition Authority recently melded with its National Consumer Agency to form the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission.
 
Calkins of Northville has been on leave from Wayne Law since 2011 while serving as a member of the former Competition Authority and director of its Mergers Division. The Competition Authority, now joined with the consumer agency, is the Irish body responsible for enforcing Irish and European competition law in Ireland.

“I’m now a member of the commission, and I’ll start spending significant time on consumer issues in addition to competition ones,” Calkins said.

He also serves as an adjunct professor at University College Dublin, assigned to the UCD Sutherland Law School.

Before his appointment to the Irish agency, Calkins had been serving since 2008 as associate vice president for academic personnel at Wayne State, while also teaching a reduced load at Wayne Law.

Earlier in his career Calkins served as general counsel of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, which enforces U.S. competition and consumer protection laws.

He holds a bachelor of arts degree from Yale University and a law degree from Harvard Law School.
 

D.C. lawyer elected president of Cooley alumni association

Patrick S. Griffin was elected president of the Western Michigan University Cooley Law School Alumni Association at the association’s annual meeting. 
 
An associate at Cantor Colburn LLP, in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office, Griffin practices intellectual property law. He focuses primarily on patent application writing and prosecution for electrical and computer patents in computer architecture, electronic commerce, database and distributed computing, telecommunications, digital displays and optics, complex financial models, and related software. 

Before earning his law degree at WMU-Cooley, Griffin studied computer engineering at Drexel University, and was a network engineer for a petroleum and petrochemical manufacturer.

Griffin joined Cantor Colburn LLP in April 2014 as an associate. Cantor Colburn, one of the largest full service Intellectual Property law firms in the country, has offices in Hartford, Connecticut; Washington, D.C.; Detroit, Michigan; Atlanta, Georgia; and Houston, Texas.

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