BooksThe Cultural Life of Intellectual Properties: Authorship, Appropriation and the Law. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998) 462 pp.
Awarded Honorable Mention (second prize) in the Law and Society Association’s Herbert Jacob Award for best new book in law and society scholarship, June, 2000.
The chapters "Objects of Politics and Subjects of Property" and "Authorizing the Celebrity Persona" are abbreviated and reprinted in Sally Falk Moore, ed., Anthropology and Law: A Reader (London: Basil Blackwell, 2005) pp. 113-123.
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2011 "What’s Feminist about Open Access? A Relational Approach to Copyright in the Academy,” feminists@law: an open access journal of feminist legal scholarship 1(1): (with Carys Craig and Joe Turcotte). ISSN: 2046-9551.
Read the Article Here2011 Bordering Diversity and Desire: Intellectual Property and Marking Place-based Products in Commerce.” Special Issue of Environment and Planning A: Society and Space New Borders of Consumption 43(9): — (With Nicole Aylwin). 33 page manuscript submitted, peer reviewed, revised and accepted. Page proofs reviewed.
Read the Article Here2010 “Honing a Critical Cultural Studies of Human Rights” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 7 (3): 230-246. Special issue on Human Rights, John Erni, ed.
Read the Article Here2009 "The Expanding Purview of Cultural Properties and their Politics" 5 Annual Review of Law and Social Sciences 393-412.
Read the Article Here2006 "Your Second Life? Goodwill and the Performativity of Intellectual Property in Online Digital Gaming" (with Andrew Herman and Lewis Kaye) 20 Cultural Studies 184-210. Reprinted in The New Media and Cybercultures Reader (Wiley Blackwell, 2010).
Read the Article Here2005 "Protecting Traditional Environmental Knowledge and New Social Movements in the Americas: Intellectual Property, Human Right or Claims to an Alternative Form of Sustainable Development?" 17.1 Florida Journal of International Law 115-135.
Read the Article Here2005 "Legal Claims to Culture in and Against the Market: Neoliberalism and the Global Proliferation of Meaningful Difference." 1.1 Law, Culture and the Humanities 32-55. Reprinted in Eve Darien-Smith, ed., Ethnography and Law (a volume in the International Library of Essays in Law and Society, Aldershott: Ashgate Publishing, 2007) 95-115.
Read the Article Here2005 "The Human Genome Diversity Project: The Politics of Patents at the Intersection of Race, Religion, and Research Ethics." (co-authored with Bita Amani). 27 Law & Policy 152-188. (Special issue on Law, Technology and Development). To be reprinted in William Gallagher, ed., Intellectual Property (a volume in the International Library of Essays in Law and Society, Aldershott: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2007).
Access the Article Here2004 "Rhetorical Virtues: Property, Speech, and the Commons on the World-Wide Web." 77.3 Anthropological Quarterly 559-574. (co-authored with Andrew Herman).
Read the Article Here (pp 59-74 of the PDF file).2003 “Fear, Hope, and Longing for the Future of Authorship and a Revitalized Public Domain in Global Regimes of Intellectual Property.” 52 De Paul Law Review 1171-1191.
Read the Article Here2001 “The Recognition of Indigenous Peoples’ and Community Traditional Knowledge in International Law.” 14 St. Thomas Law Review 275-285.
Read the Article Here2001 "Culture Wars on the Net: Intellectual Property and Corporate Propriety in Digital Environments." 100.4 South Atlantic Quarterly 919-947 (co-authored with Andrew Herman). Special issue “Culture and the Law” edited by Gaurav Desai. Reprinted in William T. Gallagher, ed., Intellectual Property (a volume in the International Library of Essays in Law and Society, Aldershott: Ashgate Publishing, 2007) 579-608.
Read the Article Here2000 "Trademarks, Property, and Propriety: The Moral Economy of Consumer Politics and Corporate Accountability on the World Wide Web." 50 De Paul Law Review 597 - 632. (coauthored with Andrew Herman). 50th Anniversary Symposium Issue on Civil Litigation and Popular Culture.
Read the Article Here1999 "The Law and Late Modern Culture: Reflections on Between Facts and Norms from the Perspective of a Critical Cultural Legal Studies" (with my student Jonathan Cohen). Symposium Issue on Jurgen Habermas. 76 University of Denver Law Review 1029-1055.
Read the Article Here1998 "Critical Cultural Legal Studies" 10 Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities 463 - 486.
Read the Article Here1998 "Intellectual Property, Human Rights, and Sovereignty: New Dilemmas in International Law Posed by the Recognition of Indigenous Knowledge and the Conservation of Biodiversity" 6 Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 59 - 115.
Read the Article Here1996 "Embodied Trademarks: Mimesis and Alterity On American Commercial Frontiers" 11 (2) Cultural Anthropology: Journal of the Society for Cultural Anthropology 202 - 224.
Read the Article Here1996 "Authorial Cartographies: Mapping Proprietary Borders in a Less Than Brave New World" 48(5) Stanford Law Review 1357 - 1366.
Read the Article Here1996 "Left Out on the Information Highway" 75 Oregon Law Review 237 - 247.
Read the Article Here1995 "The Cultural Life of Things: Anthropological Approaches To Law and Society in Conditions of Globalization" 10 (2) American University Journal of International Law and Policy 791 - 836. To be reprinted in Alexandra George, ed., Globalisation and Intellectual Property (a volume in the International Library of Essays on Globalization and Law Series. Aldershott: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2006). Abbreviated version reprinted in Nicholas Blomley, David Delaney, and Richard T. Ford, eds, The Legal Geographies Reader (Oxford and Malden, MA: Basil Blackwell, 2001) 298-318.
Read the Article Here1995 "Marking Difference in American Commerce: Trademarks and Alterity at Century's Ends." 10 (2) Canadian Journal of Law & Society 119-128. Reprinted in 19(1) PoLAR: Political & Legal Anthropology Review 105 - 116 (1996).
Read the Article Here1994 "X Marks the Spot: The Ambiguities of African Trading in the Commerce of the Black Public Sphere." 7 Public Culture: Society for Transnational Studies 249-274 (co-authored with Paul Stoller). Reprinted in The Public Sphere Collective, eds. The Black Public Sphere (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995) 253-278.
1994 "Challenging Paternity: Histories of Copyright." 6 Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities 397 - 422.
Read the Article Here1993 "Tactics of Appropriation and the Politics of Recognition in Late Modern Democracies." 21 (3) Political Theory: An International Journal of Political Philosophy 411 - 433.
Read the Article Here1993 "The Properties of Culture and the Politics of Possessing Identity: Native Claims in the Cultural Appropriation Controversy." 6 (2) Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 249 - 285. Reprinted in Elspeth Cameron ed,. Multiculturalism & Immigration in Canada: An Introductory Reader (Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press, 2004) 133-158. Abbreviated version reprinted in Karen Engle and Dan Danielson, eds., After Identity: Essays in Law and Culture (New York: Routledge, Chapman and Hall, 1995) 251-272. Another abbreviation reprinted in Bruce Ziff, ed., Borrowed Power: Issues of Cultural Appropriation (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1997) 75-96, as well as in Patty Gerstenblith ed., Art, Cultural Heritage and the Law (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2004) 541-545 and in the Second Edition (2008) 596-99..
Read the Article Here1993 "Cultural and Intellectual Property: Occupying the Colonial Imagination." 16 (1) PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 8 - 16. Reprinted in P. Drahos, ed., Intellectual Property a volume in the International Library of Essays in Legal Thought and Legal Theory series (Aldershot: Dartmouth Publishing, 1999).
Read the Article Here1992 "Publicity Rights and Political Aspiration: Mass Culture, Gender Identity and Democracy." New England Law Review 26 (4): 1221-1280.
Read the Article Here1992 "Author/izing the Celebrity: Publicity Rights, Postmodern Politics, and Unauthorized Genders." Special issue titled "Intellectual Property and the Construction of Authorship." 10 Cardozo Arts and Entertainment Law Journal 365 - 395. Reprinted in Martha Woodmansee and Peter Jaszi, eds., The Construction of Authorship: Textual Appropriations in Law and Literature (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1994) 101 - 131. Reprinted again in Peter Yu, ed., The Marketplace of Ideas: Twenty Years of the Cardozo Arts and Entertainment Law Journal (Amsterdam: Kluwer International, 2002) 236-266. An abbreviated version appeared as "The Celebrity Image and Cultural Identity." 14 (3) Discourse: Jnl. for Theoretical Studies in Media & Culture 59 - 88. (Reprinted in Toby Miller, ed., The Contemporary Hollywood Reader Routledge 2009 453-471).
Read the Article Here.1991 "Beyond Modernity's Meanings: Engaging the Postmodern in Cultural Anthropology." 11 Culture: Journal of the Canadian Anthropology Society 111- 124.
1991 "Objects of Property and Subjects of Politics: Intellectual Property Laws and Democratic Dialogue." 69 Texas Law Review 1853 - 1880. Reprinted in Dennis Patterson ed., Postmodernism and Law, a volume in The International Library of Essays in Law and Legal Theory (Aldershott: Dartmouth, 1993) 275 -302 and in Alan Freeman and Elizabeth Mensch, eds., Essays in Property. Volume II (Aldershott: Dartmouth, 1992) 415 - 442. Abbreviated for inclusion in M. La France, G. Myers, and D. Lange, eds., Intellectual Property (West Publishing, 1997).
Read the Article Here1991 "Contesting the Self: Negotiating Subjectivities in Nineteenth Century Ontario Defamation Trials." 11 Studies in Law, Politics and Society 3 - 40.
1991 "Encountering the Postmodern: New Directions in Cultural Anthropology." Symposium issue titled "Cultural Studies in Canada: Sociological and Anthropological Perspectives" 28 Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology 188 - 205.
Read the Article Here1990 "Barren Ground: Reconceiving Honour and Shame in the Field of Mediterranean Ethnography." 32 Anthropologica 221 - 238.
Read the Article Here1989 "Same As It Ever Was: Rethinking the Politics of Legal Interpretation." 34 McGill Law Journal 603 - 652.
Read the Article Here1989 "Room for Manoeuver: Toward a Theory of Practice in Critical Legal Studies." 14 Law & Social Inquiry: Journal of the American Bar Foundation 69 - 121.
Read the Article Here1988 "The Most Disgusting, Disgraceful and Inequitous Proceeding in our Law': The Action for Breach of Promise of Marriage in Nineteenth Century Ontario." 38 University of Toronto Law Journal 64 - 108.
Read the Article HereArticles in Edited Anthologies
2012 “Three Peters and an Obsessions with Pierre in ‘a Piece of Work’: Intellectual Property in John Greyson’s Un©ut.” Forthcoming in Brenda Longfellow, Scott MacKenzie & Thomas Waugh, eds., The Perils of Pedagogy: The Works of John Greyson (Montreal: McGill Queens University Press). 25 pg. revised ms. submitted and accepted.
Read the Article Here2012 “Indigenous Cultural Heritage in Development and Trade: Perspectives from the Dynamics of Intangible Cultural Heritage Law and Policy.” Forthcoming in Christoph Graber (ed.) International Trade in Indigenous Cultural Heritage (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar). With Joe Turcotte. 45 pg. revised ms. submitted, revised and proofs reviewed.
Read the Article Here2011 “Marks Indicating Conditions of Origin in Rights-based and Sustainable Development,” (with Nicole Aylwin) in Per Zumbansen & Ruth Buchanan, eds., Human Rights, Development and Restorative Justice: An Osgoode Reader (Oxford: Hart Publishing). 37 page ms. Accepted, revised, final submitted.
Read the Article Here2011 “Possessing Culture: Political Economies of Community Subjects and their Properties,” in Mark Busse & Veronica Strang, eds., Ownership and Appropriation (London: Berg Publishers) 105-127.
Read the Article Here2010 "Owning Culture: Locating Community Subjects and their Properties," in Mark Busse and Veronica Strang, eds., Ownership and Appropriation (Berg Publishers). 32 page ms. accepted, reviewed, under contract.
2010 "Marks Indicating Conditions of Origin in Rights-based and Sustainable Development," (with Nicole Aylwin) in Per Zumbansen & Ruth Buchanan, eds., Human Rights, Development and Restorative Justice: An Osgoode Reader (Oxford: Hart Publishing). 26 page ms. submitted.
Read the Article Here2010 "Cultural Agencies: 'Constructing' Community Subjects and their Rights," in Mario Biagioli, Peter Jaszi, and Martha Woodmansee, eds., Making and Unmaking Intellectual Property (Chicago: University of Chicago Press). 30 page ms accepted, reviewed, under contract.
Read the Article Here2009 “A Broken Record: Subjecting 'Music' to Cultural Rights,” (with Elizabeth B. Coleman and Fiona MacAlrault). In James C. Young and Conrad Brunck, eds., Ethics of Cultural Appropriation (London: Blackwell) 179-210.
Read the Article Here2009 “Indigenous Cultural Heritage Rights in International Human Rights Law,” (with Mohsen al atar Ahmed and Nicole Aylwin). In Catherine Bell and Robert Patterson, eds., Protection of First Nations’ Cultural Heritage: Laws, Policy and Reform (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press) 311-342.
Read the Article Here2009 “First Nations’ Intangible Cultural Heritage Concerns: Prospects for Protection of Traditional Knowledge and Traditional Cultural Expressions in International Law.” In Catherine Bell & Robert Patterson, eds., Protection of First Nations’ Cultural Heritage: Laws, Policy and Reform (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press) 247-277.
Read the Article Here2009 “Digital Media and the Informational Politics of Appropriation,” (with David Meurer). In Atopia Projects, eds., Lifting: “Theft” in Art. (Aberdeen, UK: Peacock Visual Arts) 20-27.
Read the Article Here2005 "Bearing Cultural Distinction: Informational Capitalism and New Expectations for Intellectual Property" (with Steven Schnoor and Mohsen Al Attar Ahmed) in F. Willem Grosheide and Jan J. Brinkhof, eds., Intellectual Property Law: Articles on Crossing Borders between Traditional and Actual (Antwerpen - Oxford: Molengrafica/Intersentia) pp. 193-213. Reprinted in "Intellectual Property and Social Justice" Symposium Issue. University of California-Davis Law Review 40(3): 891-917 (2007).
Read the Article Here2005 “Protecting Cultural Industries to Promote Cultural Diversity: Dilemmas for International Policy-making Posed by the Recognition of Traditional Knowledge” in K. Maskus and J. Reichman, eds., International Public Goods and Transfer of Technology Under a Globalized Intellectual Property Regime (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) pp. 559-614. Reprinted in V. V. Ramani and A. V. Bala Krishana, eds., Cultural Industries: Perspectives and Experiences (Hyderabad: ICfai University Press, 2008) 45-64.
Read the Article Here2004 “Commodity Culture, Private Censorship, Branded Environments, and Global Trade Politics: Intellectual Property as a Topic of Law and Society Research” in A. Sarat, ed., The Blackwell Companion to Law and Society (Malden, MA: Basil Blackwell) pp. 369-391.
Read the Article Here (large file - smaller file here)2003 "Works in Progress: Indigenous Knowledge, Biological Diversity and Intellectual Property in a Neoliberal Era" in R.W. Perry and B. Maurer, eds., Globalization Under Construction: Governmentality, Law and Identity (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press) pp. 273-314.
Read the Article Here2001 “Preserving Cultural Diversity through the Preservation of Biological Diversity: Indigenous Peoples, Local Communities, and the Role of Digital Technologies” in Tony Bennett, ed., Differing Diversities: Cultural Policy and Cultural Diversity (Strasbourg: Council of Europe Publishing) pp. 169-200.
2001 "Is there a Cultural Studies of Law?" in Toby Miller, ed., A Companion to Cultural Studies (Cambridge: Basil Blackwell) pp. 36-62.
Read the Article Here1999 "Sports Trademarks and Somatic Politics: Locating the Law in a Critical Cultural Studies," in R. Martin & T. Miller, eds., SportCult (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press) pp. 262-288. Reprinted in D. Goldberg, M. Musheno and L. Bower, eds., Between Law and Culture: Relocating Legal Studies (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001) pp. 22-49.
1998 “Contingent Articulations: A Critical Cultural Studies of Law,” in A. Sarat and T. Kearns, eds., Law in the Domains of Culture (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press) pp. 21-64.
Read the Article Here1997 "The Demonic Place of the Not-There: Trademark Rumors in the Imaginary Spaces of Postindustriality," in James Ferguson and Akhil Gupta, eds., Culture, Power, Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology (Durham: Duke University Press) pp.249-274.
Conference Proceedings
2005 “Intellectual Properties and the Limits of Human Rights Categories: Claiming Cultural Rights in Neoliberal Environments,” in “The Not Quite Publics and the Public Domain” Panel in Contested Commons, Trespassing Publics: A Public Record (Delhi: Centre for the Study of Developing Societies) 10-16.
2000 “Preserving Cultural Diversity through the Preservation of Biological Diversity” in Fiona Miller, et. al. eds., The Gender of Genetic Futures: The Canadian Biotechnology Strategy, Women and Health (National Network on Environments and Women’s Health Working Paper Series, September, 2000) pp. 133-161.
1999 "Culture: Anthropology's Old Vice or International Law's New Virtue?" 79 Proceedings of the American Society for International Law Annual Meetings 261-270.
Read the Text HereEditorial Contributions
2005 "Making Music in the Soundscapes of the Law." A foreword to Joanna Demers' Musical Appropriation, Musical Meaning, and the Law (Athens: University of Georgia Press).
1997 "Identifying and Engendering the Forms of Emergent Civil Societies: New Directions in Political Anthropology." Guest-editor's introduction to a special issue on Civil Society in Postcolonial Contexts. 20 PoLAR: Political & Legal Anthropology Review 1-12.
Read the Article Here1991 "The Potential for an Interdisciplinary Approach to Intellectual Property Scholarship." Introduction to a special issue on Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Intellectual Property Issues. 6 Intellectual Property Journal 265-269.
Columns and Comments
2007 “The Work of Rights in the Space of Neoliberal Governmentality’s Limits.” A commentary on Tania Li’s “Governmentality.” Anthropologica 49 (2): 284-289. Read the Commentary Here
2006 "Cultural Pluralism Protects Traditional Knowledge." Media Development 1 (January): 47-52 (with Nicole Aylwin). Reprinted as "Taking Inventory (Re)constructing Cultural Diversity and the Possibilities of Intellectual Property" in Traditional and Indigenous Knowledge (Bangalore: Icfia University Press, 2008) 101-111.2005 "Cultural Rights and Intellectual Property Debates." 2(12) Human Rights Dialogue: An International Forum for Debating Human Rights 34-36.
Read the Commentary Here2001 “Economic Relations in Transition.” A successful research grant proposal submitted to the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, published in 24 (2) PoLAR: Political & Legal Anthropology Review 107-117.
Read the Article Here1998 Commentary on Michael Brown's "Can Culture be Copyrighted?" 39 Current Anthropology 207-9.
Read the Article Here1997 "Ethical Dilemmas: Anthropology and the Assertion of Rights in Cultural Environments," 16 American Anthropological Association Newsletter 25.
1997 "The Politics of Democratizing Global Communications," 16 American Anthropological Association Newsletter 36-7.
1996 "Is There Legal Protection for Cultural Imagery?" 13 (3) American Institute of Graphic Arts Journal 28-32. Reprinted in Michael Bierut, et. al., eds., Looking Closer 2: Critical Writings on Graphic Design (New York: Allworth Press, 1997) pp. 45-50 and in Steven Heller and Marie Finamore eds., Design Culture: An Anthology of Writing from the AIGA Journal of Graphic Design (New York: Allworth, 1997).
1995 "Finding and Losing One's Self in the Topoi: Placing and Displacing the Postmodern Subject in Law." A commentary on Boa de Sousa Santos' 1995 Presidential Address. 29 (4) Law & Society Review 599-608.
Read the Article Here1990 "Context, Tradition, and Convention: The Politics of Constructing Legal Cultures." 13(2) Association for Political & Legal Anthropology Newsletter 15-25.
Book Reviews
2008 "Rethinking Creativity and Value," Review of Johanna Gibson, Creating Selves: Intellectual Property and the Narration of Culture (Dartmouth: Ashgate, 2006). Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice 3 (12): 804.
Read the Article Here2003 Review of Carol Greenhouse (with Roshanak Kheshti), Democracy and Ethnography (Albany: SUNY Press, 1998). American Ethnologist 30: 625.
Read the Article Here2001 Review of Carol Greenhouse (with Roshanak Kheshti), Democracy and Ethnography (Albany: SUNY Press,1998). 28 American Ethnologist 625.
Policy Reports
2000 “Preserving Cultural Diversity through the Preservation of Biological Diversity: Indigenous Peoples, Local Communities, and the Role of Digital Technologies.” A research report commissioned by the Cultural Policy Division of the Council of Europe, July, 2000. 48 pp.
2000 Expert’s Report on The Crucible Group, “Seeding Solutions: Policy Options for Plant Genetic Resources” for the International Development Research Centre, July, 2000. 25pp.
1998 “The Protection of Indigenous Knowledge under the Convention on Biological Diversity: The International Human Rights Framework and Canadian Policy Options.” Prepared for the Intellectual Property Policy Directorate, Industry Canada, May 1998. 280 pp.
Digital Publications
2006 “Interview,” by Lawrence Liang for the Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore in the Free Media Lounge at http://www.sarai.net/events/ip_conf/record/interview.pdf
2005 Interview with Lawrence Liang, Alternative Law Forum
2001 “Aspirations for the Politics of the Public Domain.”
- A presentation webcast is available here. (RealPlayer required)“Defending Toy Dolls and Manoeuvring Toy Soldiers: Trademarks, Consumer Politics and Corporate Accountability on the World-Wide Web.”
- Paper available here.
- Text of the discussion from the MIT communications forum, "Trademark Wars -- Corporations and Publics on the Web" available here.
- Webcast of the discussion available here. (Real Player required)
