This archive page celebrates the scholars and luminaries who visited Houston for a decade and a half to deliver the Spring Lecture. The information below provides the detailed information for each spring lecture, under the event invitation, and photos for the event and celebratory dinner associated with it. The UH Law Center and IPIL also thank the commentators over the years who enhanced the experience for our audience and for the lecturer. The event invitation in a given year shows the generous sponsor for the spring lecture for that year.
2018 PAUL OHM, Georgetown University Law Center
Forthright Code
Commentator: Sharon A. Israel
2017 CHRISTOPHER JON SPRIGMAN, New York University School of Law
Copyright and Creative Incentives: What We Know (And Don't)
Commentator: Bob McAughan
2016 MARK LEMLEY, Stanford Law School
Rethinking Assignor Estoppel
Commentator: Ed Fein
2015 JEANNE FROMER, New York University School of Law
Should the Law Care Why Intellectual Property Rights Have Been Asserted?
Commentator: Richard Phillips
2014 JULIE E. COHEN, Georgetown University Law Center
Post-Industrial Property
Commentator: Bart Showalter
2013 DAVID MCGOWAN, University of San Diego School of Law
The Unfallen Sky: Assessing the Relative Effectiveness of Legal and Market Adaptations to Technological Change
Commentator: Jacqueline Lipton
2012 R. ANTHONY REESE,
University of California - Irvine School of Law
What Does Copyright Law Owe the Future?
Commentator: Paul R. Morico
2011 PAUL GOLDSTEIN, Stanford Law School
Copyright on a Clean Slate
Commentator: Phillip Page
2010 DOUGLAS LICHTMAN, University of California – Los Angeles School of Law
Pricing Patents: The RAND Commitment
Commentator: Gordon White
2009 WILLIAM O. HENNESSEY, Franklin Pierce Law Center
Thirty Years (and More) of IP in China: A Personal Reflection
Commentator: Margaret (Meg) Boulware
2008 ROBERT MERGES, University of California School of Law – Boalt Hall
The Concept of Property in the Digital Age
Commentator: Henry N. Garrana
2007 JOEL REIDENBERG, Fordham University
School of Law
The Rule of Intellectual Property Law in the Internet Economy
Commentator: Jeff C. Dodd
2006 THE HONORABLE ARTHUR J. GAJARSA, United States Court of
Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Patents in a Changing Economy
Commentator: Scott F. Partridge
2005 F. SCOTT KIEFF, Washington University in
St. Louis-School of Law
Theory & Practice in Commercializing Innovation
Commentator: John D. Norris
2004 JANE C. GINSBURG, Columbia University School of Law
The Right to Claim Authorship after Dastar
Commentator: Paul E. Krieger
