The Stanley H. Mervis Lectureship in Intellectual Property was created in memory of Stanley Mervis in 2003 by his family and friends. Mervis, a member of the William & Mary Law School Class of 1950, was patent counsel for Polaroid Corporation for most of his career and was actively involved in important patent and intellectual property issues.

2008-09 Speaker: Judge H. Robert Mayer ’71

Fall 2010 Speaker: Professor Christopher Sprigman, University of Virginia: “The Creativity Effect and Copyright.”