John Henry Merryman

John Henry Merryman is the Nelson Bowman Sweitzer and Marie B. Sweitzer Professor Emeritus of Law at Stanford University. Merryman is a world renowned expert on art, cultural property law and comparative law. He has received honorary doctorates from Aix-en Provence, Tor Vergate in Rome and Trieste and is an Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. In 2004 Merryman received the American Society of Comparative Law’s Lifetime Achievement Award.