James Boyle

Duke University School of Law

Professor of Law

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1.

The Second Enclosure Movement and the Construction of the Public Domain

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 15 Dec 2003
James Boyle
Duke University School of Law
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Intellectual Property, Public Domain, History of Copyright

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Mark of the Devil: The University as Brand Bully

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal, Forthcoming, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2021-14
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 18 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 09 Mar 2021
James Boyle and Jennifer Jenkins
Duke University School of Law and Duke University School of Law
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trademark, intellectual property, empirical study, university behavior, brand culture

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Synthetic Biology: Caught between Property Rights, the Public Domain, and the Commons

PLoS Biology, Forthcoming, Duke Science, Technology & Innovation Paper No. 12
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 08 Nov 2006
Arti K. Rai and James Boyle
Duke University School of Law and Duke University School of Law
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The First Amendment and Cyberspace: The Clinton Years

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 18 Jan 2001
James Boyle
Duke University School of Law
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The Politics of Reason: Critical Legal Theory and Local Social Thought

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 133, No. 4, 1985
Number of pages: 96 Posted: 12 Dec 2017
James Boyle
Duke University School of Law
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critical legal theory, critical legal studies, local social though

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A Symposium of Critical Legal Studies: Introduction

American University Law Review, Vol. 34, No. 4, 1985
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 12 Dec 2017
James Boyle
Duke University School of Law
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critical legal theory, critical legal scholarship, critical legal studies

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Is Subjectivity Possible? The Post-Modern Subject in Legal Theory

University of Colorado Law Review, Vol. 62, No. 3, 1991
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 12 Dec 2017
James Boyle
Duke University School of Law
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Legal Realism and the Social Contract: Fuller's Public Jurisprudence of Form, Private Jurisprudence of Substance

Cornell Law Review, Vol. 78, No. 3, 1993
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 12 Dec 2017
James Boyle
Duke University School of Law
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Lon Fuller, political theory, legal realism, social contract

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The Search for an Author: Shakespeare and the Framers

American University Law Review, Vol. 37, No. 3, 1988
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 12 Dec 2017
James Boyle
Duke University School of Law
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authorship, Shakespeare, Edward de Vere, law and literature, literary interpretation, constitutional interpretaion, Constitution

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Intellectual Property Policy Online: A Young Person's Guide

Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, Vol. 10, No. 1, 1996
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 12 Dec 2017
James Boyle
Duke University School of Law
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internet, copyright, public domain, infringement, fair use

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Fencing off Ideas: Enclosure & the Disappearance of the Public Domain

Daedalus, Vol. 131, No. 2, Spring 2002
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 11 Dec 2017
James Boyle
Duke University School of Law
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Property Rights, Public Domain, Enclosure, Internet, Innovation

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Cruel, Mean, or Lavish? Economic Analysis, Price Discrimination and Digital Intellectual Property

Vanderbilt Law Review, Vol. 53, No. 6, 2000
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 12 Dec 2017
James Boyle
Duke University School of Law
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inventions, electronic records, price discrimination, right of property, economics

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A Politics of Intellectual Property: Environmentalism for the Net?

Duke Law Journal, Vol. 47, No. 1, 1997
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 12 Dec 2017
James Boyle
Duke University School of Law
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Cultural Environmentalism and Beyond

Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 70, No. 2, 2007
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 11 Dec 2017
James Boyle
Duke University School of Law
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A Theory of Law and Information: Copyright, Spleens, Blackmail, and Insider Trading

California Law Review, Vol. 80, No. 6, 1992
Number of pages: 128 Posted: 12 Dec 2017
James Boyle
Duke University School of Law
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Thomas Hobbes and the Invented Tradition of Positivism: Reflections on Language, Power, and Essentialism

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 135, No. 3, 1987
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 12 Dec 2017
James Boyle
Duke University School of Law
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Mertonianism Unbound?: Imagining Free, Decentralized Access to Most Cultural and Scientific Material

Understanding Knowledge As a Commons: From Theory to Practice, Elinor Ostrom & Charlotte eds., MIT Press 2007, pp. 123-144
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 08 Dec 2017
James Boyle
Duke University School of Law
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A Manifesto on WIPO and the Future of Intellectual Property

Duke Law & Technology Review, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2004
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 11 Dec 2017
James Boyle
Duke University School of Law
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Ideals and Things: International Legal Scholarship and the Prison-House of Language

Harvard International Law Journal, Vol. 26, No. 3, 1985
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 12 Dec 2017
James Boyle
Duke University School of Law
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20.

Legal Fiction

Hastings Law Journal, Vol. 38, No. 5, 1987
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 12 Dec 2017
James Boyle
Duke University School of Law
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legal system, Dworkin, Law's Empire, interpretation

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Open Source Innovation, Patent Injunctions, and the Public Interest

Duke Law & Technology Review, Vol. 11, No. 1, 2012
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 11 Dec 2017
James Boyle
Duke University School of Law
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Foreword: The Opposite of Property?

Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 66, No. 1, 2003
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 11 Dec 2017
James Boyle
Duke University School of Law
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The Anatomy of a Torts Class

American University Law Review, Vol. 34, No. 5, 1985
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 12 Dec 2017
James Boyle
Duke University School of Law
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In Re 'William Shakespeare'

American University Law Review, Vol. 37, No. 3, 1988
Number of pages: 82 Posted: 12 Dec 2017
James Boyle
Duke University School of Law
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authorship, Shakespeare, Edward de Vere, law and literature, literary interpretation

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Anachronism of the Moral Sentiments? Integrity, Postmodernism, and Justice

Stanford Law Review, Vol. 51, No. 3, 1999
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 12 Dec 2017
James Boyle
Duke University School of Law
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Introduction Thirtieth Annual Administrative Law Issue: A Nondelegation Doctrine for the Digital Age?

Duke Law Journal, Vol. 50, No. 1, 2000
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 12 Dec 2017
James Boyle
Duke University School of Law
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Open Legal Educational Materials: The Frequently Asked Questions

Washington Journal of Law, Technology & Arts, Vol. 11, No. 1, 2015
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 11 Dec 2017
James Boyle and Jennifer Jenkins
Duke University School of Law and Duke University School of Law
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Modernist Social Theory: Roberto Unger's Passion

Harvard Law Review, Vol. 98, No. 5, p. 1066, 1985
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 12 Dec 2017
James Boyle
Duke University School of Law
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personality social thought, modernism, human nature, passion

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A Process of Denial: Bork and Post-Modern Conservatism

Yale Journal of Law & Humanities, vol. 3, issue 2, pp. 263-314 (1991)
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 12 Dec 2017
James Boyle
Duke University School of Law
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The PC Harangue

Stanford Law Review, Vol. 45, No. 5, 1993
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 12 Dec 2017
James Boyle
Duke University School of Law
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Political Correctness, Free Speech, Academia, Liberal Education, Egalitarianism, Relativism, Conservatism

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Foucault in Cyberspace: Surveillance, Sovereignty, and Hard-Wired Censors

Posted: 15 Aug 1997
James Boyle
Duke University School of Law

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