Media, Speaking and Teaching

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

Online Archives/Media

• Kinsella on Liberty Podcast
• 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

• “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; podcast feed starting at  KOL 045 | “Libertarian Controversies Lecture 1″ (Mises Academy, 2011).
• “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

• Slated to appear in the forthcoming documentary “Who Owns You?” (interviewed Jan. 6, 2010) (see also Fund raising for feature documentary – Who Owns You?; Who Owns You? – A Documentary – Trailer; Who Owns You? — Gene Patent Documentary)
• “The Role of the Corporation and Limited Liability in a Private Law Society,” 2013 Annual Meeting, Property and Freedom Society (Sep. 19–24, 2013)

Past Speaking and Other Events

2013

• Renegade Variety Hour (nature of rights), with Carlos Morales and Taryn Harris (May 6, 2013)
• KOL 043 | Triple-V: Voluntary Virtues Vodcast, with Michael Shanklin: Bitcoin, Legal Reform, Morality of Voting, Rothbard on Copyright (April 25, 2013)
• Renegade Variety Hour (Intellectual Property), with Carlos Morales and Taryn Harris (April 5, 2013)
• “Locke’s Big Mistake: How the Labor Theory of Property Ruined Economics and Political Theory,” Liberty in the Pines conference, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas (March 23, 2013)
• Rothbardian Circle, Introduction to Free Markets/Libertarian Theory (“Lockean Homesteading”) (Mar. 20, 2013)
• Jake Shannon radio (Against IP), Mar. 19, 2013
• Smash Walls Radio Podcast, with Trevor Hultner (software patents and patent trolls) (Mar. 5, 2013)
• First Degree Liberty, with Chase Rachels and Michael Martelli (argumentation ethics and title-transfer theory of contract) (Mar. 4, 2013)
• Triple-V: Voluntary Virtues Vodcast with Michael Shanklin (intellectual property) (Feb. 25, 2013)
• FreeDomain Radio with Stefan Molyneux (corporations and limited liability) (Feb. 22, 2013)
• Liberty Beat Interview (Intellectual Property and cetera) (Feb. 18, 2013)
• “Decline to State Interview on IP and Anarchy” (Jan. 23, 2013)
• “What Libertarianism Is,” Liberty on the Rocks Houston (Kickoff Event, Jan. 10, 2013)
• Speaking on “What Libertarianism Is,” Liberty on the Rocks (Houston) (Jan. 10, 2013)
• Interviewed on Prometheus Unbound podcast (Jan 10, 2013) (topics: libertarian fiction, intellectual property)

2012

• Kinsella on Anarchast Discussing IP, Anarcho-libertarianism, and Legislation vs. Private Law (Dec. 29, 2012)
• “Intellectual Property Law in Canada,” Ed and Ethan Podcast: The voice of liberty in Canada (Nov. 17, 2012) (MP3; Youtube)
• “Silver for the People Interview: Stephan Kinsella—Copyright Laws Cost the U.S. $Billions in Economic Growth” (at Libertopia, San Diego, Oct. 12, 2012)
• “Intellectual Nonsense: Fallacious Arguments for IP,” Speaker, Libertopia, San Diego (Oct. 12, 2012)
• “The (State’s) Corruption of (Private) Law,” 2012 Annual Meeting, Property and Freedom Society (Sep. 27 to Oct. 2, 2012)
• Jeffrey Tucker Interviews Stephan Kinsella on Samsung-Apple trial, Laissez-Faire Club (Aug. 27, 2012)
• Austrian AV Club—Kinsella and Network Neutrality, Mises Institute Canada, with Redmond Weissenberger (Aug. 25, 2012)
• Speaking On Liberty, Liberty Minded, discussing intellectual property (July 24, 2012)
• Kinsella and Tucker Discuss Patent Law on Peter Schiff Show (June 6, 2012)
• Austrian AV Club—Kinsella and the Corporation on Trial,Mises Institute Canada, with Redmond Weissenberger (May 17, 2012)
• Austrian AV Club Interview—Mises Institute Canada (discussing intellectual property), by Redmond Weissenberger (May 3, 2012)
• Interview on IP and libertarianism by Fabrizio Sitzia, LibertariaNation.org (Italy) (April 15, 2012; recorded Feb. 23, 2012)
• Guest on The Corbett Report (Mar. 28, 2012) (discussing IP)
• Guest on Liberty Conspiracy (Gardner Goldsmith, Mar. 26, 2012) (discussing IP)
• Guest on TWiL (March 9, 2012)
• Kinsella on David Hutzelman Show, HMS-TV, discussing IP & SOPA (Feb. 23, 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) [podcast here]
• 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) [transcript here; see also the article based on this talk: “How Intellectual Property Hampers the Free Market,” The Freeman (June 2011), republished as “How to Slow Economic Progress,” Mises Daily (June 1, 2011).]
• 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.”); on my podcast at KOL 056
• The Voluntary Life, Author Interview: Stephan Kinsella on Against Intellectual Property (March 20, 2010; see also their interesting episode Against Intellectual Property: A Follow Up Discussion). This was also podcast as Episode 1616 of Freedomain Radio (Stefan Molyneux joined in); on my podcast at KOL 055.
• 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); 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“, Austrian Scholars Conference 2008, Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn AL, March 13, 2008.
• “Intellectual ‘Property,’” The Lew Rockwell Show (Sept. 24, 2008)

2007

• Israelis vs. Arabs: What’s the solution?, Libertarian Politics Live, with Eric Dondero (Aug. 27, 2007)

2001

• Do patents and copyrights undermine private property?: Yes, Insight magazine, May 21, 2001 (local copy) (reading of and discussion of this piece by hosts at Free Talk Live, 8/31/07 show; audio is here (local copy) [starts around 5:25])
• 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

• “What Libertarianism Is,” in Hülsmann & Kinsella, eds., Property, Freedom, and Society: Essays in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Mises Institute, 2009); adapted as “What Libertarianism Is,” Mises Daily (August 21, 2009), and also as “What Libertarianism Is,” LewRockwell.com (Aug. 24, 2009) (audio)
• How We Come To Own Ourselves, Mises Daily (Sep. 7, 2006) (Mises.org blog discussion; audio version)
• Estoppel: A New Justification for Individual Rights, Reason Papers No. 17 (Fall 1992), p. 61 (audio version)
• What It Means To Be an Anarcho-Capitalist, January 20, 2004, LewRockwell.com (audio)
• Do patents and copyrights undermine private property?: Yes, Insight magazine, May 21, 2001 (local copy) (reading of and discussion of this piece by hosts at Free Talk Live, 8/31/07 show; audio is here (local copy) [starts around 5:25]; also in my podcast feed)
• 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 [on my podcast too: KOL008 | “Against Intellectual Property” (audiobook)]