{"id":1741,"date":"2022-06-17T20:17:02","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T20:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/ilit\/?p=1741"},"modified":"2022-08-23T19:15:47","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T19:15:47","slug":"temple-laws-institute-for-law-innovation-technology-ilit-announces-the-william-j-merrit-student-fellowship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/ilit\/temple-laws-institute-for-law-innovation-technology-ilit-announces-the-william-j-merrit-student-fellowship\/","title":{"rendered":"Temple Law\u2019s Institute for Law, Innovation &#038; Technology (iLIT) Announces the William J. Merrit Student Fellowship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/ilit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/06\/Temple-University-Scholarship-2-1024x635.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1742\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Temple Law\u2019s Institute for Law, Innovation &amp; Technology (iLIT), in partnership with <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ir.interdigital.com\/esg\/social-impact\/\" target=\"_blank\">InterDigital Foundation<\/a>, is proud to announce the creation of the William J. Merritt Student Fellowship. The Fellowship, established in honor of Bill Merritt LAW \u201887, provides financial and mentorship support for Temple Law students exploring topics at the critical intersection of technology and law. Edmund Nyarko LAW \u201823 and Ella Ogundare LAW \u201823 have been named the 2022 recipients of the William J. Merritt Student Fellowship.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bill Merritt LAW \u201887 served as President and Chief Executive Officer of InterDigital, an industry-leading research, innovation, and licensing company, from 2005 until his retirement in 2021. Under his leadership, InterDigital created solutions for many of the industry\u2019s most critical and complex technical challenges and grew to include licenses and strategic relationships with many of the world\u2019s leading technology companies. Merritt is a member of Temple Law\u2019s Board of Visitors and now serves as an inaugural member of the iLIT Advisory Board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTemple has been extremely fortunate to build partnerships that advance and expand our vision for this work. I think this is in part due to our mission, and in part to the wonderful tech and start-up community that has brought so much energy to our city, fueled by people like Bill,\u201d said interim Dean Rachel Rebouche. \u201cThese partnerships leverage Temple\u2019s global reach to create space for our students on the leading edge of emerging legal issues, new fields, and new practice areas, connecting them with people who are in the business of building a better world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By creating a space for students to develop critical thinking skills and the ingenuity to go out and change the world for the better, iLIT is committed to supporting Temple Law students in launching themselves to the forefront of emerging legal issues and new fields and practice areas. \u201cThe intellectual space and support that the scholarship offers, in short, encapsulates what we are working every day to achieve with iLIT,\u201d said iLIT Executive Director Laura Bingham. \u201cIt is a direct way to communicate to our students that we believe novel critical thinking, collaboration and solidarity, ingenuity and creativity will be essential wherever their career pathways lead.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPreparing our students to be innovative legal thinkers, especially those whose interests include technology, is of particularly vital importance,\u201d said Rebouche, noting the need people for who can think critically and creatively \u201cabout how law can ensure that technology becomes one of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Temple Law\u2019s Institute for Law, Innovation &amp; Technology (iLIT), in partnership with InterDigital Foundation, is proud to announce the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,38,31,33,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-collaboration","category-events","category-newsroom","category-students"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Temple Law\u2019s Institute for Law, Innovation &amp; Technology (iLIT) Announces the William J. 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