Faculty Profile

Dr. Burt A. Leete Professor Emeritus, Legal Studies J.D., American University Robert H. Smith School of Business Logistics, Business and Public Policy 3349 Van Munching Hall College Park, MD 20742-1815 Phone: (301) 405-2245 Email: bleete@rhsmith.umd.edu

Research Interests: Consumer protection, product liability, intellectual property rights.

Leete teaches law-related courses in the undergraduate and MBA programs. The author of numerous articles, papers and books, his research has focused primarily in the areas of consumer protection, the impact on business of product liability litigation, the protection of intellectual property rights, and more recently, on topics in the international legal arena. In the past he served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and as Senior Associate Dean of the school.