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Harvey Perlman was named the 19th Chancellor of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln on
April 1, 2001. He had served as Interim Chancellor of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
since July 16, 2000.
A former dean of the University of Nebraska College of Law (1983-98), Perlman has also
served as interim senior vice chancellor for academic affairs at UNL (1995-96).
A Nebraska native, Perlman was raised in York, and earned a bachelor of arts in history
and a juris doctorate from the University of Nebraska. During his law school years, he was
editor in chief of the Nebraska Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif, a
law honors society.
He joined the NU law faculty in 1967 after spending a year as a Bigelow Teaching Fellow
at the University of Chicago Law School. He served on the Nebraska law faculty until 1974
when he joined the faculty at the University of Virginia Law School. He returned to Nebraska
in 1983 when he accepted the deanship of the Nebraska Law College, a post he held until
1998 when he returned to the professoriate. He has also served as a visiting professor at
Florida State University College of Law, the University of Puget Sound School of Law and
the University of Iowa College of Law.
In 2011, Perlman was named an Honorary University Professor of Xi’an Jiaotong University,
in Xi’an, China. This rare lifetime appointment entitles Perlman to privileges at the university,
with which UNL has many institutional ties. Perlman also will occasionally lecture and teach
at Xi’an Jiaotong University. The title is the highest honor the university awards to a foreign
scholar, and recognizes Perlman as an accomplished scholar or professional of important
international reputation. The award also recognizes Perlman for his significant efforts
in globalizing UNL and Xi’an Jiaotong University through joint research and partnership
degree programs.
His area of legal expertise lies in torts and intellectual property. He is a member of the
Nebraska State and American Bar Associations and is a Life Fellow of the American Bar
Association. Perlman is co-author of “Intellectual Property and Unfair Competition” (5th
edition, 1998) and co-reporter for the American Law Institute’s “Restatement of Unfair
Competition” (1994). He serves on the Co չ