Dennis S. Karjala, 78, passed away recently. He graduated from Princeton University in 1961 with a B.S. degree in Engineering/Physics; cum laude. At the University of Illinois at Urbana he earned a MS and Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 1963 and 1965 respectively. He taught Electrical Engineering at American University in Okinawa for several years. He returned to the United States and earned a J.D. degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1972. While attending Berkeley, he was the Editor in Chief of the University of California Law Review (1971-1972). Upon completion of his Berkeley studies, he practiced law at the firm of McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen in San Francisco. In 1978, Dennis joined the faculty of ASU as a Professor of Law, and stayed there for 39 years until his death in 2017. In 2001, Dennis was designated a Willard H. Pedrick Distinguished Research Scholar, and in 2002 he was appointed to the college's first endowed chair, the Jack E. Brown Professor of Law. Dennis was also a Faculty Fellow, Center for Law, Science, and Innovation. Dennis’s work in intellectual property, specifically copyright law, is internationally recognized and complemented by his facility in written and spoken Japanese. Dennis taught courses in property law, copyright, patent law, international intellectual property, and intellectual property in cyberspace. Dennis was a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar at the Max Planck Institute in Munich, a Fulbright Teaching Fellow at the University of Hokkaido, and a Japan Foundation Fellow at the University of Tokyo. He has held visiting professorships at numerous institutions, including the University of Minnesota Law School, Washington University School of Law, and UCLA School of Law. Dennis is survived by a daughter, a brother, two sisters, two stepchildren and his former wife, Katarina Karjala. A memorial service will be announced at a future date. (Source: Arizona Republic)