RESEARCH | Current Scholarship

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Amy Kapczynski

The Access to Knowledge Mobilization and the New Politics of Intellectual Property Law, 117 Yale Law Journal Pocket Part 262 (2008).

“The Story of Minister of Health v. Treatment Action Campaign,” forthcoming
in Human Rights Law Stories (Foundation Press, 2008).

Addressing Global Health Inequities: An Open Licensing Approach for
University Innovations
(with S. Chaifetz, Z. Katz, and Y. Benkler), Berkeley Technology Law Journal (2005).

Peter S. Menell

"Patent Case Management Judicial Guide" (with L. Pasahow, J. Pooley, and M. Powers), Federal Judicial Center (forthcoming 2008).

Intellectual Property and the Law of the Land, 30, Regulation No. 4, p. 64 (Winter 2008).

Knowledge Access and Preservation Policy in the Digital Age, 44 Houston Law Review 1013 (2007).

Robert P. Merges

An Estoppel Doctrine for Patented Standards (with J. Kuhn), California Law Review (forthcoming 2008).

Locke for the Masses: Property Rights and the Products of Collective Creativity, Hofstra Law Review, Ideas Section (forthcoming 2009).

Software and Patent Scope: A Report from the
Middle Innings
, Texas Law Review Vol. 85:1627 (2007).


Deirdre K. Mulligan

"Fighting Crime with Publicly-Financed Surveillance Cameras: The San Francisco Experience," (with Jennifer King and Steven Raphael, Edited by Daniel J.B. Mitchell), in CALIFORNIA POLICY OPTIONS (2009).

M. Meingast, J. King, and D. Mulligan. Embedded RFID and Everyday Things: A Case Study of the Security and Privacy Risks of the U.S. e-Passport. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on RFID (March 2007).

Noticing Notice: A large-scale experiment on the timing of software license agreements, (with Nathaniel Good, Jens Grossklags and Joe Konstan), CHI Proceedings (2007)


Pamela Samuelson

Are Patents on Interfaces Impeding Interoperability?, 94 Minn. Law Review (forthcoming 2009).

Unbundling Fair Uses, 77 Fordham Law Review (forthcoming 2009).

The Strange Odyssey of Software Interfaces and Intellectual Property Law, in Con/texts of Invention (Mario Biagioli, et al., eds. forthcoming 2008).


Paul Schwartz

Preemption and Privacy, 118 Yale Law Journal 902 (2009).

Warrantless Wiretapping, FISA Reform, and the Lessons of Public Liberty: A Comment on Holmes' Jorde Lecture, 97 California Law Review 407 (2009).

Reviving Telecommunications Surveillance Law, 75 University of Chicago Law Review 287 (2008).


Howard Shelanski

Network Neutrality: Regulating with More Questions than Answers, J. Telecomm. & High Tech Law, Vol. 6 (2007).

Merger Analysis and the Treatment of Uncertainty: Should we Expect Better?(with M. Katz), Antitrust L.J. (2007).

Adjusting Regulation to Competition: Toward a New Model for U.S. Telecommunications Policy,Yale J. Reg. (2007).


Molly Shaffer Van Houweling

The New Servitudes, Georgetown Law Journal (forthcoming 2008).

Cultural Environmentalism and the Constructed Commons, Law and Contemporary Problems, (forthcoming).

Commentary, “Bouncing Around in Culture: Creativity, Spontaneity and Physicality in Copyright Policy”, U.C. Davis L. Rev., (forthcoming).

 

> Information Privacy Law
Information Privacy Law, now in its Third Edition, continues to present groundbreaking cases and cutting-edge issues, along with informative discussion and concise introductions for each area of privacy law. A conceptual framework brings logic and clarity to this wide-ranging field. Stimulating questions fuel classroom debate.

(Aspen Law & Business, 3rd ed. 2008), with Paul Schwartz and Daniel J. Solove (along with Teacher's Manual)

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Text: ISBN 9780735576414 ($140.00)

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> Patent Law and Policy: Cases and Materials
This leading casebook makes Patent Law accessible to a wide audience of students and instructors. Patent Law and Policy provides numerous diagrams and figures, concise explanations of relevant legal principles, and to the extent possible, cases involving relatively simple technologies.

(Lexisnexis, 4th ed. 2007), with Robert P. Merges and John F. Duffy (along with 2005 Statutory and Treaty Supplement)

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Text: ISBN 9781422417645 ($126.00)


> Intellectual Property in the New Technological Age
Known for its broad, accessible coverage of both traditional and cutting-edge issues, Intellectual Property in the New Technological Age is the cornerstone of a proven teaching package.

(Aspen Law & Business, 4th ed. 2006), with Mark Lemley, Peter S. Menell and Robert P. Merges (along with 2006 Case and Statutory Supplement and Teacher’s Manual)

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Text: ISBN 9780735569898 ($142.00)

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> Software and Internet Law
Software and Internet Law, Third Edition, is an excellent choice for courses that cover all aspects of computer law. This careful exploration of computer software, the Internet, and e-commerce focuses on intellectual property, licensing, and antitrust law to give students a solid introduction to the full range of the field.

(Aspen Law & Business, 3rd ed. 2006), with Mark Lemley, Peter S. Menell, Robert P. Merges, and Pamela Samuelson (along with Teacher’s Manual)

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Text: ISBN 9780735558649 ($102.00)

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> Property Law and Policy
Dwyer and Menell’s text on property law integrates legal, philosophical, economic, sociological, anthropological, historical and political perspectives to provide students a firm grounding in the principal institutions—background legal rules administered by courts, social norms, markets, and political bodies—defining and governing property in societies.

(Foundation Press, 1997), with Peter S. Menell and John P. Dwyer

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Text: ISBN-13 9781566625333 ($148.00)


> Environmental Law and Policy
The authors' focus on policy and theory, rather than the minutia of environmental law, gives students the analytical tools they need to examine any given law or statute. This comprehensive policy-oriented casebook covers all the essential topics you'll want to address in class.

(Aspen Law & Business, 1995), by Peter S. Menell

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Text: ISBN 9780316551571 ($127.00)