Raymond Nimmer

Raymond Nimmer is an attorney and former Dean of the University of Houston Law Center in Houston, Texas, United States.

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

Nimmer’s field of expertise is in intellectual property law. After graduating from law school in 1968, he worked as a Research Attorney at the American Bar Foundation from 1968 to 1975. He has 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 is currently the Leonard Childs Professor of Law at the University of Houston Law Center and co-director of the Houston Intellectual Property and Information Law Institute. He is the Dean of the University of Houston Law Center having previously served as acting Dean and interim Dean.

He is the author of twenty books and many law articles. Professor Nimmer is 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.

He was admitted to the Texas Bar in March, 1984.

Nimmer is also a member of the Illinois Bar.

Ray Nimmer is not related to David and Melville Nimmer of Nimmer on Copyright.

• 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