Based in Houston, Texas, The Honorable Nancy F. Atlas Intellectual Property American Inn of Court (Atlas IP Inn) provides the Sponsored Scholarship Grants program for law professors (SSG-Profs) to facilitate newly-authored scholarship in specific areas of Intellectual Property & Information Law (IPIL) within the legal academy.
For 2025, the focus is Copyright, Trademark, Entertainment, Media, Art, Design, and Sports Law.
The SSG program for law professors is administered for the Atlas IP Inn by the IPIL Institute at the University of Houston Law Center. As one of the nation's leading programs for the study of intellectual property and information law, IPIL is pleased to provide this administrative support for the creation and dissemination of quality scholarship in its field.
The SSG program for law professors provides grants for IPIL‑related scholarship from tenured or tenure-track professors at AALS member and fee-paid law schools. The program is made possible by the remarkably generous support of the Atlas IP Inn.
Grant amounts may change from year to year, but are typically in the four-figure range, paid upon publication (so long as publication occurs within three years of awardee notification, but excluding self-publication such as via SSRN or web-posting), with one grant selection anticipated approximately each year. Grants will not be considered for, or awarded to, prior recipients of an award under any of the SSG programs unless ten years has elapsed since the applicant’s prior receipt of award payment. Applicants from qualifying Texas law schools will have that status considered as a factor in their favor when IPIL evaluates submittals. All articles must be of publishable quality, relate to the IPIL subject matter specified above, and total ideally within the range of 10,000 to 20,000 words, inclusive of footnotes; but with a required minimum length of 10,000 words inclusive of footnotes.
To apply for a grant, please submit the following:
All items should be provided electronically, as attachments in Adobe Acrobat PDF format, in a single submittal emailed to: ssgpacademyipil@uh.edu
One proposal per submitter. Application materials will be treated in confidence. Article proposals may be made for works-in-progress, but such works should not be substantially complete nor submitted for or accepted for publication. Article proposals are limited to single-author works. Co-author or multi-author works will be not considered.
Application Deadlines for the 2025 IPIL SSG-Profs Program for Tenured or Tenure-track Law Professors:
Applications will be accepted until March 14, 2025. Selections will be made in the summer of 2025 from the applications by considering all applications received up through the deadline.
Grant amounts for the 2025 IPIL SSG-Profs Program for Tenured or Tenure-track Law Professors:
$4,000 upon publication (so long as publication occurs within three years of awardee notification).
These Sponsored Scholarship Grants programs are administered for The Honorable Nancy F. Atlas Intellectual Property American Inn of Court by the University of Houston Law Center's Institute for Intellectual Property and Information Law.
