Grant Ullrich is a student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he is pursuing concurrent professional degrees in law and architecture.  His primary interests are in the areas of intellectual property, design protection, and construction law.  He is also interested in professional licensing and education.

Grant has served as a representative of the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) on accreditation site visits conducted by the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) annually since 2004.  In 2005, he was an invited participant in Designing Tomorrow’s Architect, a national conference jointly sponsored by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the National Council of Architecture Registration Boards (NCARB).  Grant has twice been elected as graduate student representative to the Executive Committee of the Urbana-Champaign Senate, the student-faculty governing body of the Urbana-Champaign campus.  He also serves as Chair of the Illinois Student Senate’s Committee on Senate Procedure.

Grant has worked as a judicial extern for the Honorable Judge Jeffery B. Ford, Champaign County Circuit Court, and as a law clerk for the University of Illinois’ Office of University Counsel.  He also has professional experience as an architectural intern and web designer. 

As a member and associate editor of the University of Illinois Law Review, Grant authored “Confusing Consumers to Protect Copyrights: Some Trademark Implications,” which examines the widespread recording industry practice of placing deceptive files on file-sharing networks (“spoofing”) and how this practice might constitute naked trademark licensing.  (Available upon request.)  He is currently researching several copyright issues for future notes and articles.

Grant received his undergraduate degree in architectural studies with high honors from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2004.  He has also studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Ecole d’Architecture de Versailles (France), and St. Peter’s College, Oxford University.

Documents:

Law Resume (August 2007)

Design Work (May 2006)