“Soi-disant” and “manque” (both terms pretentiously used in recent blog posts on Ex Parte, the Weblog maintained by the Harvard Law School Federalist Society). Gimme a break. More annoying/pretentious words.
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Stephan Kinsella is a libertarian writer and retired patent attorney in Houston, Texas. He has published widely on various areas of libertarian legal theory and on legal topics such as intellectual property law and international law. His publications include Legal Foundations of a Free Society (Papinian Press, 2023), Against Intellectual Property (Mises Institute, 2008), International Investment, Political Risk, and Dispute Resolution: A Practitioner’s Guide (Oxford, 2020), and The Universal Principles of Liberty (2025).
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