Annual Nies Lecture | Marquette University Law School

Each year, a nationally recognized expert in intellectual property law presents a lecture on a cutting-edge intellectual property law issue.

2025 Rebecca Tushnet Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment Harvard Law School The First Amendment Without Strict Scrutiny? Lessons from Intellectual Property Law Watch the Presentation
2024 Eric Goldman Professor of Law, Associate Dean for Research, and Director of the High Tech Law Institute Santa Clara University Generative AI Is Doomed Watch the Presentation
2023 Margo A. Bagley Asa Griggs Candler Professor and Associate Dean for Research Emory University School of Law Innovator Ecosystem Diversity as a Global Competitiveness Imperative Watch the Presentation
2022 Jessica Sibley Professor of Law and Yanakakis Faculty Research Scholar Boston University Questions of Intellectual Property and Fundamental Values in the Digital Age Watch the Presentation
2019 Mark P. McKenna John P. Murphy Professor of Law University of Notre Dame The Rise of Property and Decline of Equity in Trademark Law Watch the Presentation Article
2018 Rebecca S. Eisenberg Robert & Barbara Luciano Professor of Law University of Michigan Law School Opting for Regulation When Patentability Is In Doubt Watch the Presentation Article
2017 Brad Smith President & Chief Legal Officer Microsoft Corp. A Cloud for Global Good: The Future of Technology—Issues for Wisconsin and the World Watch the Presentation Article
2016 Ted Ullyot Partner Andreessen Horowitz Innovation, Disruption, and Intellectual Property: A View from Silicon Valley Watch the Presentation Article
2015 Henry E. Smith Fessenden Professor of Law and Director of the Project on the Foundations of Private Law Harvard Law School Semicommons in Fluid Resources Watch the Presentation Article
2014 Hon. Kathleen M. O'Malley U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit The Intensifying National Interest in Patent Litigation Watch the Presentation Article
2013 Arti K. Rai Elvin R. Latty Professor of Law Duke University Patents, Markets, and Medicine in a Just Society Watch the Presentation Article, Diagnostic Patents at the Supreme Court
2012 Jane C. Ginsburg Morton L. Janklow Professor of Literary and Artistic Property Law and Faculty Director Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts Columbia University School of Law The Author's Place in the Future of Copyright
2011 Mark Lemley William H. Neukom Professor of Law Stanford Law School Can the Patent Office be Fixed Watch the Presentation Article
2010 John F. Duffy Oswald Symister Colclough Research Professor of Law The George Washington University Law School Recovery and the Patent System Watch the presentation Article, Innovation and Recovery
2009 Professor Jessica Litman John F. Nickoll Professor of Law and Professor of Information University of Michigan Real Copyright Reform Watch the presentation Article
2008 Professor Jerome Reichman Bunyan S. Womble Professor of Law Duke University School of Law The Uncertain Status of Clinical Trial Data in International Intellectual Property Law: From Private to Public Good? Listen to the Lecture Article
2007 Craig A. Nard Tom J.E. and Bette Lou Walker Professor of Law Co-Director of the Center for Law, Technology and the Arts Case Western Reserve University, Law School Patent Law's Peerless Appellate Architecture
2006 Dr. Michael Geist Professor of Law University of Ottawa Law School All Rights Reserved? Cultural Monopoly and the Troubles with Copyright Article
2005 Hon. Richard A. Posner United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Do We Have Too Many Intellectual Property Rights? Article
2004 Professor Graeme B. Dinwoodie Norman and Edna Freehling Scholar Associate Dean and Program Director of Intellectual Property Chicago-Kent College of Law The Trademark Jurisprudence of the Rehnquist Court Article
2003 Dan L. Burk Oppenheimer, Wolff and Donnelly Professorship in Law University of Minnesota Law School Tailoring Patent Policy to Specific Industries Article
2002 Hon. Arthur J. Gajarsa United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Quo Vadis? Article
2001 Hon. Randall R. Rader United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit: the Promise and Perils of a Court of Limited Jurisdiction Article
2000 Sheldon W. Halpern C. William O'Neill Professor of Law, and Judicial Administration the Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University Copyright Law in the Digital Age: Malum In Se and Malum Prohibitum Article
1999 Donald S. Chisum Phil and Bobbie Sanfilippo Professor of Law Santa Clara University of Law The Supreme Court and Patent Law: Does Shallow Reasoning Lead to Thin Law? Article
1998 Marshall A. Leaffer Distinguished Scholar in Intellectual Property Law, and University Fellow Indiana University School of Law The New World of International Trademark Law Article

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