Media, Speaking and Teaching

Publicity info, profile photos, and full bio are on my About page.

Online Archives/Media

• my YouTube Channel
• Mises Institute media
• Mises Institute publications
• Mises Daily articles
• Journal of Libertarian Studies articles
• Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics articles
• LewRockwell.com articles
• Kinsella posts on the Mises Blog
• Kinsella posts on Against Monopoly blog

Teaching

• Guest lecture on IP in the oil & gas industry, Shale Oil course, University of Houston Law School (forthcoming, Spring 2012)
• “Obama’s Patent Reform: Improvement or Continuing Calamity?,” Mises Academy webinar (discussed in my article “Obama’s Patent Reform: Improvement or Continuing Calamity?,” Mises Daily, Sep. 23, 2011; I discussed the AIA in further detail in The American Invents Act and Patent Reform: The Good, the Meh, and the Ugly) (audio and slides)
• “Libertarian Controversies,” Mises Academy (Mondays, Sept. 19-Oct. 23, 2011) (discussed in my article “Libertarian  Controversies,” Mises Daily, Aug. 25, 2011) (audio and slides)
• “The Social Theory of Hoppe,” Mises Academy (Mondays, July 11-Aug. 21, 2011) (discussed in “Read Hoppe, Then Nothing Is the Same,” Mises Daily (June 10 2011), in Spanish Tras leer a Hoppe, nada es lo mismo; also on the Mises Blog in Study Hoppe with Kinsella Online) (audio and slides)
• “Intellectual Property and Economic Development,” Mises University 2011 (July 27, 2011)
• “Rethinking Intellectual Property: History, Theory, and Economics,” Mises Academy (Tuesdays, Mar. 22-April 26, 2011) (discussed on the Mises Blog in Study with Kinsella Online and in Rethinking Intellectual Property: Kinsella’s Mises Academy Online Course) (audio and slides)
• “Libertarian Legal Theory: Property, Conflict, and Society,” Mises Academy (Jan. 31-Mar. 11, 2011) (audio and slides)
• “Rethinking Intellectual Property: History, Theory, and Economics,” Mises Academy (Nov.-Dec. 2010) (discussed on the Mises Blog in Study with Kinsella Online) (Lecture 1.)
• Faculty, Rothbard Graduate Seminar, Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama (topics: Natural Law and Positive Law; Self Defense, Punishment, and Proportionality; The Theory of Contracts) (July 28-Aug. 2, 2002)
• South Texas College of Law, Houston: Adjunct professor (Computer Law) (Fall 1998 & 1999)

Upcoming

• “The Market for Law,” 2012 Annual Meeting, Property and Freedom Society (Sep. 27 to Oct. 2, 2012)
• Slated to appear in the forthcoming documentary “Who Owns You?” (interviewed Jan. 6, 2010)

Past Speaking and Other Events

2012

• Guest on FreeTalkLive, discussing IP and SOPA (2 hrs., Jan. 22, 2012)
• Guest on Liberty Underground Radio Show, discussing IP (25 min., Jan. 20, 2012)
• “The Peter Mac Show,” discussing the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) (Jan. 4, 2012) (audio)

2011

• Guest on FreeTalkLive, discussing IP and SOPA (Jan. 22, 2012)
• “SOPA, Piracy, Censorship and the End of the Internet? Kinsella and Stefan Molyneux on Freedomain Radio” (Dec. 21, 2011)
• “Why Intellectual Property is not Genuine Property,” 3^rd Adam Smith Forum, Moscow, Russia (Nov. 12, 2011) (via remote video)
• “AVTM + Stephan Kinsella: “Intellectual Property” vs The 4th Amendment,” Guest on Adam vs. the Man (Oct. 25, 2011), discussing Copyright and Neo-Mercantilism
• “Property and Science: The Twin Pillars of Prosperity and Civilization–versus Patent and Copyright,” Panelist, Open Science Summit, Mountain View, CA (Oct. 22, 2011)
• Guest panelist, This Week in Law (TWiL) (Oct. 13, 2011)
• Agora I/O: The Liberty Unconference: Open Source Agorism: Prosper Without Patents or Copyrights, Sep. 23, 2011 (video)
• “Open Mic with Dr. John McGinnis,” WRTA (Sep. 19, 2011), discussing the America Invents Act
• FreeTalkLive/XM Extreme Talk Appearance re Intellectual Property (Aug. 21, 2011)
• On Adam vs. The Man re Drug Patents (Aug. 4, 2011)
• “Correcting some Common Libertarian Misconceptions,” 2011 Annual Meeting, Property and Freedom Society (May 28, 2011)
• Guest on Adam vs. the Man, RT Network, Episode #28 (May 19, 2011), discussing IP
• “IP Debate: John Templeton Foundation’s Big Questions Debate series on Intellectual Property and Wealth Creation,” The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law Student Chapter of The Federalist Society (Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University, Columbus OH, March 3, 2011)
• Panelist, “Intellectual Property Law and Policy,” Symposium: “Plain Meaning in Context: Can Law Survive its Own Language?”, New York University School of Law/Journal of Law and Liberty (February 18, 2011) [video online here]
• Guest, Thinking Liberty, discussing IP (Feb. 15, 2011)
• Kinsella on The Medical Freedom Report: Patents on Medical Technology and Pharmaceuticals (Guest, The Medical Freedom Report Podcast, host Michael Ostrolenk) (Feb. 24, 2011)
• Guest panelist, This Week in Law (TWiL), Episode 97 (Feb. 4, 2011) ["It's a Bing trap, Internet rights, tracking data persistence, attorney motivation, abolishing IP, life patents, and more"] [video, audio, description here]

2010

• The Katherine Albrecht Radio Show, discussing Net Neutrality (Dec. 22, 2010)
• “Live and Let Live” radio show with Gary Johnson discussing IP (Nov. 14, 2010)
• “Intellectual Freedom and Learning versus Patent and Copyright,” 2010 Students For Liberty Texas Regional Conference, University of Texas, Austin (Nov. 6, 2010) (video; audio; edited transcription).
• “How Intellectual Property Hampers Capitalism,” Mises Institute Supporters’ Summit 2010: “The Economic Recovery:  Washington’s Big Lie” (Oct. 9 2010, Auburn Alabama)
• Rethinking Intellectual Property: History, Theory, and Economics: An Interview with Jeff Tucker, Mises Podcast (Oct. 9, 2010) (discussing the upcoming “Rethinking Intellectual Property: History, Theory, and Economics,” Mises Academy)
• Discussion of intellectual property and libertarianism on Ernest Hancock’s Declare Your Independence radio show (Sep. 14, 2010)
• Libertarian Parenting–A Freedomain Radio Conversation with Stephan Kinsella, FreeDomain Radio #1689 (Thu, 1 Jul 2010)
• Speech, “Ideas are Free: The Case Against Intellectual Property: or, How Libertarians Went Wrong,” 2010 Annual Meeting, Property and Freedom Society (June 6, 2010) [I also participated in a Q&A Discussion Panel featuring "Hoppe, van Dun, DiLorenzo, Kinsella, Daniels, Kealey"- video]
• Appeared on the Gene Basler Show, discussing a variety of anarcho-libertarian matters–environmentalism, nuclear power, state propaganda in government schools, class action lawsuits, reparations, how to achieve an anarcho-libertarian society, animal rights, positive rights and obligations, forced heirship, and so on (May 30, 2010) (an edited transcript to appear as a chapter in Gene Basler, Environmental Non-Policy: Interviews on Environment, War and Liberty, forthcoming August 2011)
• The Peter Mac Show, with Rob Wicks, discussing whether libertarians should use the word “capitalism,” anarchy, IP and other topics (May 12, 2010)
• Guest on Anarchy Time with James Cox discussing immigration issues (May 9, 2010) (also podcast at Freedomain Radio #1659: “The Immigration Roundtable – BlogTalkRadio with Stephan Kinsella, Wilt Alston and Stefan Molyneux: A roundtable discussion on the challenge of immigration.”)
• “Freedomain Radio #1616: “Stephan Kinsella on Intellectual Property” (March 15, 2010): “This is a Freedomain Radio book club discussion of one of Stephan’s most popular books: ‘Against Intellectual Property’” (MP3)
• Author’s Forum: Property, Freedom and Society, Austrian Scholars Conference (March 11, 2010)
  
• Antiwar Interview: Kinsella on Bill of Rights, Intellectual Property (Feb. 11, 2010)
• Free Talk Live Interview on Reducing the Costs of Intellectual Property (Jan. 20, 2010)

2009

• Kinsella on Bill Handel Show Discussing Blackmail, Tiger Woods, David Letterman (Dec. 14, 2009)
• Interview on Peter Mac Show (Nov. 20, 2009)
• YAL interview (October 7, 2009) by Matt Cockerill of Young Americans for Liberty (interview covered several topics, such as minarchism vs. anarcho-libertarianism, the non-aggression principle, gay marriage, restitution vs. retribution, intellectual property, and pessimism and activism) (audio file (16MB); YouTube version)
• “Intellectual Property and Libertarianism,” speech presented at Mises University 2009 (July 30, 2009; audio; video); speech podcast on The Lew Rockwell Show, #131, as The Intellectual Property Racket (Aug. 19, 2009) (see also: “Intellectual Property and Libertarianism,” Mises Daily (Nov. 17, 2009); earlier version (without endnotes) published as “Intellectual Property and Libertarianism” [local PDF; Liberty's online version], Liberty vol. 23, no. 11 (Dec. 2009), p. 27 [blog post])

2008

• Delivered the Rothbard Memorial Lecture, “The Intellectual Property Quagmire, or, The Perils of Libertarian Creationism” (Powerpoint; Slideshare.net Presentation; PDF version), Austrian Scholars Conference 2008, Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn AL, March 13, 2008 [Audio; Video; Google Video version)].
• “Intellectual ‘Property,’” The Lew Rockwell Show (Sept. 24, 2008) (YouTube version)

2001

• Chair, Law and Economics panel, Austrian Scholars Conference, Auburn, Alabama (March 30-31, 2001)

2000

• Panelist, presented paper “The Nature and Sources of Law under Anarcho-Capitalism,” Twenty-Second International Conference on the Unity of Sciences, Military and Police–Public or Private? committee, Seoul, Korea (February 9-13, 2000)
• Presented paper, “The Legitimacy of Intellectual Property,” Law and Economics panel, Austrian Scholars Conference, Auburn, Alabama (March 25, 2000)

1999

• Presented paper, “A Libertarian Theory of Contracts: Title Transfer, Binding Promises, and Inalienability,” Law and Economics panel, Austrian Scholars Conference, Auburn, Alabama (April 17, 1999)
• Planning Committee Member & Moderator, 1999 Energy Law Institute, South Texas College of Law, Aug. 1999
• Speaker, “Crime, Punishment and Restitution,” Liberální institut, Prague, Czech Republic (May 27, 1999)

1998

• Planning Committee Member & Speaker, present “Patents and Intellectual Property in the Oil & Gas Industry,” 1998 Oil & Gas Law Institute, South Texas College of Law (Aug. 7, 1998)
• Speaker/panelist, presented “The Problem with Unions,” HOBY Texas Gulf Coast 1998 Leadership Seminar, Rice University, Houston, Texas (June 6, 2008)
• Chair and paper, “Constitutional Structures in Defense of Freedom,” Law and Economics panel, Austrian Scholars Conference, Auburn, Alabama (April 3, 1998) [see Legislation and the Discovery of Law in a Free Society; Taking the Ninth Amendment Seriously: A Review of Calvin R. Massey’s Silent Rights: The Ninth Amendment and the Constitution’s Unenumerated Rights]

1997

• “Legal codes and systems,” Federalist Society, Philadelphia Chapter (September 9, 1997) ["Legislation and Law in a Free Society"]
• “On the Ninth Amendment,” Federalist Society, Philadelphia Chapter (May 6, 1997) [Taking the Ninth Amendment Seriously: A Review of Calvin R. Massey’s Silent Rights: The Ninth Amendment and the Constitution’s Unenumerated Rights [1995], 24 Hastings Const. L. Q. 757 (1997)]
• Chair, Scholars of the Austrian School panel, Austrian Scholars Conference, Auburn, Alabama (April 5, 1997)

1996

• Internet Service Provider Liability Seminar, Philadelphia (June 1996)
• “Legal codes and systems,” The Freeman Society of Valley Forge (Mar. 4, 1996) ["Legislation and Law in a Free Society"]
• “New Rationalist Directions in Libertarian Rights Theory,” Austrian Scholars Conference, Auburn, Alabama (Jan. 27, 1996)

1993-94

• “Recent Developments in Jurisprudence and Legislation,” LSU Mineral Law Institute, Baton Rouge, Louisiana (March 1994)
• Judge, Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, Houston, Texas(1993 & 1994)

Audio Versions of Books and Articles

• Against Intellectual Property Audiobook (1 hr 54 min.): .mp3 format or .m4b iTunes book format (each about 57M); also available in a Mises.org version and on iTunes U