Stanford Law Professor Paul Goldstein, a globally recognized expert on intellectual property (IP) law, has been inducted into the 2015 IP Hall of Fame, where he joins Stanford Law Professor Mark Lemley and 66 other individuals chosen since 2006 from nominations made by members of the IP community around the world.

Goldstein, the Stella W. and Ira S. Lillick Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, is one of five new inductees who will be honored at a gala dinner held in San Francisco this June during the IP Business Congress. He is in good company in the IP Hall of Fame Academy, which includes such notables as Thomas Jefferson, Victor Hugo, Edward Coke and, in this year’s group, Nikola Tesla.

Only three inductees teach at American law schools: Goldstein, Lemley and Jane Ginsburg of Columbia University School of Law.

“This is a great honor, indeed. I have known several of the inductees for many years and have long been familiar with the contributions of virtually all of the others. I couldn’t hope to be in better company,” Goldstein said.

“Paul Goldstein is a giant in the field of intellectual property. Stanford has a well-deserved international reputation in this field, and Paul is a major reason for that. More than that, as I have learned from our graduates, many of them came to Stanford because of Paul, and others were converted to the field after taking his classes. This is wonderful recognition,” said M. Elizabeth Magill, dean and the Richard E. Lang Professor of Law at Stanford Law School.

“Paul has been one of the most important figures in copyright law for a generation. His work has defined the meaning and limits of copyright law,” said Mark Lemley, the William H. Neukom Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and director of the Stanford Program in Law, Science and Technology.

In announcing Goldstein’s selection, Intellectual Asset Management, a bimonthly magazine, cited his accomplishments as a leading U.S. copyright scholar, lawyer and author. In addition to writing an influential four-volume treatise on U.S. copyright law, a one-volume treatise on international copyright law and other titles on IP issues, he has authored three novels with IP themes. His most recent novel, Havana Requiem, won the 2013 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction.

Goldstein currently serves as of counsel at Morrison & Foerster and has been regularly included in Best Lawyers of America. He has been on the Stanford Law School faculty since 1975, where he has been recognized twice with the John Bingham Hurlbut Award for Excellence in Teaching. He has served as chairman of the U.S. Office of Technology Assessment Advisory Panel on Intellectual Property Rights in an Age of Electronics and Information; has been a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Parent, Copyright and Competition Law in Munich, Germany; and was a founding member of the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center.

Established in 2006 by Intellectual Asset Management, the IP Hall of Fame honors those who have helped to establish intellectual property as one of the key business assets of the 21^st century. It aims to acknowledge the vital role these innovators have played in fostering today’s vibrant IP environment and ensuring its continued health, as well as to show how central IP is to the global economy and the well-being of people around the world. The full list of previous inductees can be found here.