John Martin Conley
Visiting Professor

B.A., 1971, Harvard University Vita		After serving as a scuba diver with the New England Aquarium in Boston, Massachusetts, Conley received his J.D. (1977) and a Ph.D. in anthropology (1980) from Duke University. He was editor in chief of the Duke Law Journal and was elected to The Order of the Coif. He practiced law in Boston and in Charlotte, North Carolina for six years, specializing in civil litigation. He also served as an adjunct professor at Boston College Law School. Since joining the UNC-Chapel Hill faculty in 1983, his principal research and teaching interests have been in law and social science, and intellectual property law.