Professor Michael Mireles has taught more than 10 different courses and
currently teaches intellectual property law, Property, Wills & Trusts and
Cybersecurity Law. He has published papers in numerous journals
including, Cardozo Law Review, University of Maine Law
Review, University of Missouri-Kansas City Law Review, Southern
Methodist University Law Review, University of Denver Law
Review, University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform, University of Utah
Law Review, Lewis and Clark Law Review, Indiana Law Review, Texas
Intellectual Property Law Journal and University of Minnesota Journal of
Law, Science and Technology. He has also coauthored a Cybersecurity
Law casebook and hornbooks.
Professor Mireles taught Cross Border Trade in Intellectual Property in the
George Washington University Law School summer program, part of the
Munich Intellectual Property Law Center, at the Max Planck Institute for
Intellectual Property Law, Competition Law and Tax Law in Munich,
Germany. He has also taught at the University of Denver, Sturm College of
Law; China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing; Shanghai
University of Finance and Economics; Zhejiang Gongshang University in
Hangzhou; and University of Salzburg. He has recently given academic
presentations at Copenhagen Business School; Max Planck Institute for
Innovation and Competition; Shanghai Jiao Tong University Koguan School
of Law; Stanford Law School; VIT University Law School in Chennai, India;
Wake Forest Law School; University of Kentucky Law School; the East
China University of Political Science and Law in Shanghai; the American
Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting; and Texas A&M Law School
and the Confederation of Indian Industry. He recently co-organized an
international conference at McGeorge on
pharmaceuticals:https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/crp/. He has also co-
organized conferences in India and Denver.
Professor Mireles has been a guest blogger on the IP Kat blog and
regularly blogs on the IP Finance blog, which was recently ranked in the
top 60 intellectual property blogs worldwide. He coaches the Saul Lefkowitz
Trademark Law Moot Court team, which has won a National Championship
and many awards in the West region. He is advisor to the Intellectual
Property Student Association, and co-advisor to the Asian Pacific American
Law Students Association and the Latinx Law Student Association.
Professor Mireles has served as a reviewer for universities, journals and
academic presses, including Routledge and Oxford University Press.
Professor Mireles was an associate attorney at Downey Brand, practicing
intellectual property and commercial law, and was a law clerk to Circuit
Judge S. Jay Plager of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal
Circuit in Washington, D.C. Professor Mireles received his JD from
University of the Pacific, Order of the Coif, and LLM in intellectual property
law from George Washington University Law School, with highest honors.
He has served on the board of directors of several professional and
community organizations, as Co-chair of the Federal Circuit Bar
Association Diversity Committee, as President of the Asian Bar Association
of Sacramento, and as a mayoral appointment to the City of Sacramento
Racial Profiling Commission. He enjoys volunteering with nonprofits with
his children, particularly with the refugee resettlement organization World
Relief; and teaches intellectual property classes to local high school
students.