The 16th Annual Nies Lecture

Patents, Markets, and Medicine in a Just Society by Arti K. Rai, Elvin R. Latty Professor of Law at Duke University.

The 15th Annual Nies Lecture - 2012

The Author's Place in the Future of Copyright By Professor 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

Award-winning Student Papers

Nida Shakir wins second place ($500) in the Intellectual Property section of the State Bar of Wisconsin's Annual Memorial Writing Competition for law students for her submission entitled The National Institutes of Health, Patents, and the Public Interest: an Expanded Rationale of Justice Breyer's Dissent in Stanford v. Roche.

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Award-winning Student Papers

Russell Steinbrenner wins first place ($1,000) in the Intellectual Property section of the State Bar of Wisconsin's Annual Memorial Writing Competition for law students for his submission entitled The Next Bubble: Intellectual Property, Patents, and Their Projected Valuation.

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The 14th Annual Nies Lecture

Can the Patent Office be Fixed? By Professor Mark A. Lemley, William H. Neukom Professor of Law, Stanford University; Director, Stanford Program in Law, Science and Technology; Partner, Durie Tangri LLP

The 13th Annual Nies Lecture

Recovery and the Patent System by Professor John F. Duffy, Oswald Symister Colclough Research Professor of Law at George Washington University.

The 12th Annual Nies Lecture

Real Copyright Reform by Professor Jessica Litman, John F. Nickoll Professor of Law and Professor of Information, University of Michigan

The 11th Annual Nies Lecture

The Uncertain Status of Clinical Trial Data in International Intellectual Property Law: From Private to Public Good? by Professor Jerome Reichman, Bunyan S. Womble Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law School