Nancy Kremers (Of Counsel) is an experienced international business and intellectual property lawyer, and she also consults globally on biodiversity, traditional knowledge, and economic development issues.

She has lived in Belgium and the Congo (Zaire), and has traveled and worked in many parts of Asia, Africa, Pacifica, and Europe. She speaks excellent French and Dutch, and is currently learning Spanish.

She works and resides in Houston, TX, and she also works in the Washington, DC area, where she is a part-time faculty member at George Washington University School of Law and at George Mason University Law School. She teaches appellate writing and advocacy, and she teaches a course she designed for upper-level intellectual property law students in legal drafting (primarily contracts and legislative drafting).

Ms. Kremers attended the World Intellectual Property Organization intergovernmental committee meeting on genetic resources, traditional knowledge, and folklore in Geneva, Switzerland, in December, 2002. She is currently completing her LL.M. thesis, entitled “Speaking with a Forked Tongue in the Global Debate on Traditional Knowledge and Genetic Resources: Is U.S. Intellectual Property Law and Policy Really Aimed at Protecting Native Americans?”

Ms. Kremers has written several articles and has been interviewed concerning various Internet and intellectual property law issues. Her recent article, “Stolen Legacy”, was the cover story for Legal Times in its intellectual property law magazine for March 25, 2003; it is available online to subscribers. Her recent article on biodiversity and traditional knowledge research protocols for businesses and universities can be found at

• http://www.utdallas.edu/~chasteen/July15.pdf .
  (Note: .PDF file; Adobe Acrobat reader is required.)

Her Law Technology News primer for attorneys on Internet and copyright matters can be found at

• http://ltn-archive.hotresponse.com/
  may01/small_home_office_p28.html .

Interviews with her on Internet legal issues can be found at

• http://www.hostingtech.com/lo/01_04_law1_b.html

and at

• http://www.hostingtech.com/lo/01_05_law2_b.html .

Ms. Kremers holds black belt ranking (shodan) both open hand and traditional weapons in shorin ryu shorin kan karate, a traditional Okinawan style. She enjoys yoga, running, the visual arts, and is a devoted member of the Textile Museum in Washington, D.C. In her spare moments, she can be found studying foreign languages or looking at art. She also raises orchids and is devoted to her teenaged son and friends around the world.

• Admitted to practice: United States Court for the Southern District of Texas, State Bar of Texas.
• Education: LL.M. (Intellectual Property), University of Houston, expected Dec. 2003; J.D. and M.S.F.S.(International Trade), Georgetown University, 1979; A.B. (International Relations-Interdepartmental), Stanford University, 1975.
• Member: Amnesty International, Alliance Francaise, Tibet Justice Center (formerly International Committee of Lawyers for Tibet).