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.

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2015 IP Hall of Fame Inductees have now been selected. They are:

Paul Goldstein: Leading US copyright scholar, lawyer and author. As well as writing influential treatises on both US and international copyright law, Goldstein has authored works of non-fiction including three novels, the most recent of which received the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction. He continues his legal practice as Of Counsel at Morrison & Foerster, and is a professor at Stanford Law School where he has twice been awarded for excellence in teaching. Goldstein has also taught at the Max Planck Institute and is a founding faculty member of the Munich IP Law Center.