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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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- Libertarian and Lockean Creationism: Creation As a Source of Wealth, not Property Rights; Hayek’s “Fund of Experience”; the Distinction Between Scarce Means and Knowledge as Guides to Action on Anarchist Libertarian Jan Lester’s Argument for Intellectual Property
- Libertarian and Lockean Creationism: Creation As a Source of Wealth, not Property Rights; Hayek’s “Fund of Experience”; the Distinction Between Scarce Means and Knowledge as Guides to Action on Craig Wright: You Don’t Own Your Digital Stuff. NFTs Could Actually Fix That — Without Intellectual Property
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- Schoolland: Sticks and Stones: A Critique of Libel and Slander Laws March 8, 2026 Stephan Kinsella
- McKernan: “The EpiGenome and the freedom to read your own genes” (2013) March 7, 2026 Stephan Kinsella
- Intellectual Property & Scarcity (LewRockwell.com, 2003) March 7, 2026 Stephan Kinsella
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- IP is a thought crime: Joren De Wachter at TEDxLeuven (2013) March 7, 2026 Stephan Kinsella
- House of “Lords” report, “AI, copyright and the creative industries” March 6, 2026 Stephan Kinsella
- It is impossible to own ideas March 5, 2026 Stephan Kinsella
- KOL483 | The Economics and Ethics of Intellectual Property, Loyola University—New Orleans March 5, 2026 Stephan Kinsella
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- PTAB Whiplash and Uncertainty: Director Discretion and Policy Swings at the PTO February 15, 2026 Stephan Kinsella
Exactly. It sets up all these vigilante expectations, and then shoots them down. In a way we can almost believe.
This was one of my favorites of last year. Not as great as Ratatouille, but . . .