Bart Selden advises clients on international trade and business transactions, providing guidance for European and Asian companies on their activities in the Unites States. His clients include producers of consumer goods, housewares, food, beverages, and construction products, and suppliers of services ranging from television broadcasting to enterprise-level computer software.

Mr. Selden provides direct legal services in the formation of U.S. subsidiaries and related companies, registration and enforcement of trademarks, intellectual property licensing, distribution and agency agreements, employment matters, and civil litigation.

For companies that cannot dedicate a member of the legal department to oversee matters in the United States, Mr. Selden functions as an outside General Counsel, providing a single point of contact for the overseas client in working with the various attorneys needed to follow matters in particular states or in specialized fields of law.

Mr. Selden holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of California, Boalt Hall, and an LL.M. in International and Comparative Law, magna cum laude, from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He was recently named one of Northern California’s “Super Lawyers” in a poll of 46,000 lawyers.

He is an Adjunct Professor of International Business Transactions and European Law at Golden Gate University School of Law in San Francisco. He lectures frequently at Italian universities, including Ca’ Foscari in Venice, the University of Bologna, and the University of Pavia, on subjects of international trade, commercial law and intellectual property. Mr. Selden also teaches an annual intensive course on U.S. Trademark Law at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany.

A sampling of his recent lectures and publications in both English and Italian includes:

Profili processuali del commercio elettronico, RIVISTA TRIMESTRALE DI DIRITTO E PROCEDURA CIVILE, p. 73 (Giuffrè, 2002).
Le fonti del diritto statunitense dei contratti commerciali, Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia (2003), Università di Torino (2005).
I rapporti bilaterali tra l’Unione europea e gli Stati Uniti davanti al WTO, Università di Bologna (2004), Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia (2005).
Open Source ed istituti di ricerca: verso un modello F/LOSS per la commercializzazione di software sviluppato con il supporto pubblico, Centro di Documentazione Europea, Venezia (2004).
Il «discovery» nel sistema processuale civile statunitense: la funzione e lo scopo, Consiglio dell’ordine degli avvocati di Venezia (2004), Università di Pavia (2004).
Resolving Disputes Between Trademark Owners and Domain Name Registrants: Comparing the U.S. and Italian Systems, American Society of International Law Regional Meeting (San Francisco, 2002).
La risoluzione delle dispute tra i titolari di marchi ed i registranti di nomi a dominio, Università di Bologna, Università di Modena, Università di Pavia (2002).
An Introduction to the Regulation of Electronic Commerce in the United States and the European Union, Golden Gate University (2001).