Each year, a nationally recognized expert in intellectual property law presents a lecture on a cutting-edge intellectual property law issue. The Nies Lecture is the flagship event in a year-long series of educational programs on Intellectual Property Law.
Annual Nies Lecture from 2023
Innovator Ecosystem Diversity as a Global Competitiveness Imperative, Margo A. Bagley
Annual Nies Lecture from 2022
Questions of Intellectual Property and Fundamental Values in the Digital Age, Jessica Silbey
Annual Nies Lecture from 2019
The Rise of Property and Decline of Equity in Trademark Law, Mark P. McKenna
Annual Nies Lecture from 2018
Opting for Regulation When Patentability Is In Doubt, Rebecca S. Eisenberg
Annual Nies Lecture from 2017
A Cloud for Global Good: The Future of Technology - Issues for Wisconsin and the World, Brad Smith
Annual Nies Lecture from 2016
Innovation, Disruption, and Intellectual Property: A View from Silicon Valley, Ted Ullyot
Annual Nies Lecture from 2015
Semicommons in Fluid Resources, Henry E. Smith
Annual Nies Lecture from 2014
The Intensifying National Interest in Patent Litigation, Hon. Kathleen M. O'Malley
Annual Nies Lecture from 2013
Patents, Markets, and Medicine in a Just Society, Arti K. Rai
Annual Nies Lecture from 2012
The Author's Place in the Future of Copyright, Jane C. Ginsburg
Annual Nies Lecture from 2011
Can the Patent Office be Fixed, Mark Lemley
Annual Nies Lecture from 2010
Innovation and Recovery, John F. Duffy
Annual Nies Lecture from 2009
The Copyright Revision Act of 2026, Jessica Litman
Annual Nies Lecture from 2008
Annual Nies Lecture from 2007
Patent Law's Peerless Appellate Architecture, Craig A. Nard
Annual Nies Lecture from 2006
All Rights Reserved? Cultural Monopoly and the Troubles with Copyright, Michael Geist
Annual Nies Lecture from 2005
Do We Have Too Many Intellectual Property Rights?, Richard A. Posner
Annual Nies Lecture from 2004
The Trademark Jurisprudence of the Rehnquist Court, Graeme B. Dinwoodie
Annual Nies Lecture from 2003
Tailoring Patent Policy to Specific Industries, Dan L. Burk
Annual Nies Lecture from 2002
Quo Vadis?, Arthur J. Gajarsa
Annual Nies Lecture from 2001
The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit: The Promise and Perils of a Court of Limited Jurisdiction, Randall R. Rader
Annual Nies Lecture from 2000
Copyright Law in the Digital Age: Malum In Se and Malum Prohititum, Sheldon W. Halpern
Annual Nies Lecture from 1999
The Supreme Court and Patent Law: Does Shallow Reasoning Lead to Thin Law, Donald S. Chisum
Annual Nies Lecture from 1998
The New World of International Trademark Law, Marshall A. Leaffer