Raymond Nimmer

Raymond Nimmer was an attorney and former[1] Dean of the University of Houston Law Center in Houston, Texas, United States. Raymond Theodore Nimmer was born in Illinois May 2, 1944. He died January 24, 2018 in Houston, Texas.[2]

Education

Nimmer received a B.A. in Mathematics in 1966 from Valparaiso University in the state of Indiana. He received a J.D. law degree which was awarded with distinction in 1968 from Valparaiso University Law School [3]

Career

Nimmer’s field of expertise was in intellectual property law.[4] After graduating from law school in 1968, he worked as a Research Attorney at the American Bar Foundation from 1968 to 1975. He practiced law in the private section from 1985 to 1991 as Counsel at Sheinfeld, Maley and Kay, a Houston law firm and as Counsel at Weil, Gotshal & Manges, a Houston law firm from 1992 to 1999.

Nimmer was the author of twenty books and many law articles. Professor Nimmer was a frequent speaker in the United States and overseas in the areas of intellectual property, business and technology law. On September 28, 2006, he was the keynote speaker to the Singapore Management University School of Law, held in conjunction with Singapore Academy of Law held at the Supreme Court auditorium in Singapore.[5]

State Bars

He was admitted to the Texas Bar in March, 1984. [4] Nimmer was also a member of the Illinois Bar.

Miscellaneous

Ray Nimmer was not related to David and Melville Nimmer of Nimmer on Copyright.[6]

Awards

  • Recipient, Faculty Services Award, University of Houston 2004
  • Recipient, Best New Book in Law, Association of American Publishers 1985 (Law of Computer Technology)
  • Third National Prize, Nathan Burkham Copyright competition, 1968

References

  1. ↑ Dean's Notes| University of Houston Law Center
  2. ↑ UH Law Center mourns passing of Dean Emeritus and Professor Raymond T. Nimmer
  3. ↑ Microsoft Word - RTN resume 2007.doc Archived May 3, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
  4. 1 2 State Bar of Texas | Member Directory Archived December 19, 2010, at WebCite
  5. ↑ Conferences & Seminars Archived December 19, 2010, at WebCite
  6. ↑ David Nimmer, "Copyright: sacred text, technology, and the DMCA," p. 379, footnote 271.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.