Kinsella Publications
Recent & Selected Publications
Interview on "Intellectual 'Property'" (The Lew Rockwell Show podcast, Sept. 23, 2008)
The Intellectual Property Quagmire, or, The Perils of Libertarian Creationism [PPT, 32 MB; PDF version , 51MB], Austrian Scholars Conference 2008 (Audio ; Video ; Google Video version ), Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn AL, March 13, 2008
Tinsley, Patrick, N. Stephan Kinsella and Walter Block. "In Defense of
Evidence and Against the Exclusionary Rule: A Libertarian Approach ", Southern University Law Review , Vol. 32.1 (2004), pp. 63-80
How We Come To Own Ourselves [property rights in bodies], Mises.org, Sep. 7, 2006 (Mises.org blog discussion )
The Greatest Libertarian Books , LewRockwell.com , August 7, 2006
The Trouble with Libertarian Activism , LewRockwell.com , January 26, 2006
A Simple Libertarian Argument Against Unrestricted Immigration and Open Borders , LewRockwell.com , September 1, 2005 (plus see followup comment here )
A Libertarian Defense of ‘Kelo’ and Limited Federal Power , LewRockwell.com , June 27, 2005 [the takings/fifth amendment/eminent domain case]
Federalism (with Walter Block), LewRockwell.com , May 25, 2005
The Ordeal of Hoppe (with Jeffrey Tucker), The Free Market , Volume 25, Number 4, April 2005
There's No Such
Thing as a Free Patent , Mises.org, Mar. 7, 2005 (related blog discussion )
Causation and Aggression (co-authored with Patrick Tinsley),
The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, vol. 7, no. 4 (winter 2004): 97-112
(based on "Reinach and the Property Libertarians on Causality in the Law," by N. Stephan Kinsella, presented at
Reinach and Rothbard:
An International Symposium , Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama, March 29-30, 2001)
Reply to Van Dun: Non-Aggression and Title Transfer , Journal of Libertarian Studies , Volume 18, no. 2 (Spring 2004)
(summary of issue; 2 )
Eat This Book: Review of Brad Edmonds's There's a Government in Your Soup: Why There's Too Much Government in Your Kitchen, and What You Can Do About It , July 24, 2004,
LewRockwell.com
What It Means To Be an Anarcho-Capitalist , January 20, 2004,
LewRockwell.com (Dutch translation: Wat het betekent om anarcho-kapitalist te zijn , MeerVrijheid.nl (copy on Libertarian.nl ), trans. Koen Swinkels; local copy ; Spanish translation: Lo que significa ser anarcocapitalista ;
Polish translation )
In Defense of Evidence: Against the Exclusionary Rule and
Against Libertarian Centralism , with Patrick Tinsley, November 1, 2003,
LewRockwell.com.
A Theory of Contracts: Binding Promises, Title Transfer,
and Inalienability , Earlier version presented at Law and Economics panel, Austrian Scholars Conference, Auburn, Alabama (April 17, 1999)
(Journal of Libertarian Studies 17:2 (Spring 2003))
When Did the Trouble Start? , September 5, 2003,
LewRockwell.com.
Sandefur and Federal
Supremacy , July 5, 2003,
LewRockwell.com.
Supreme Confusion,
Or, A Libertarian Defense of Affirmative Action , July 4, 2003,
LewRockwell.com.
Of Legal Fictions and Pro-Lincoln Libertarians: Reply to Sandefur , December 31, 2002,
LewRockwell.com.
How I Became A Libertarian , December 18, 2002,
LewRockwell.com.
Defending Argumentation Ethics: Reply to Murphy & Callahan ,
Anti-state.com (Sept. 19, 2002) (reply to Bob Murphy and Gene Callahan, Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s Argumentation Ethic: A Critique ,
Anti-state.com (Sept. 19, 2002); debate discussed in this forum )
Fukuyama and Libertarianism , May 6, 2002,
LewRockwell.com.
Letter to an Anonymous Patent Attorney , Jan. 25, 2002,
LewRockwell.com.
New Israel: A Win-Win-Win Proposal ,
October 1, 2001, LewRockwell.com.
Online Archives
Journal of Libertarian Studies Articles
Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics Articles
Libertarianism and Political Theory
Editor/Moderator
Rights Theory
How We Come To Own Ourselves [property rights in bodies], Mises.org, Sep. 7, 2006 (Mises.org blog discussion )
Causation and Aggression (co-authored with Patrick Tinsley),
The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, vol. 7, no. 4 (winter 2004): 97-112
(based on "Reinach and the Property Libertarians on Causality in the Law," by N. Stephan Kinsella, presented at
Reinach and Rothbard:
An International Symposium , Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama, March 29-30, 2001)
Punishment and Proportionality:
The Estoppel Approach, 12:1 Journal of Libertarian Studies 51
(Spring 1996).
Defending Argumentation Ethics: Reply to Murphy & Callahan ,
Anti-state.com (Sept. 19, 2002) (reply to Bob Murphy and Gene Callahan, Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s Argumentation Ethic: A Critique ,
Anti-state.com (Sept. 19, 2002); debate discussed in this forum )
Inalienability and
Punishment: A Reply to George Smith , Winter 1998-99,
Journal of Libertarian Studies .
A Libertarian Theory of Punishment
and Rights 30
Loy. L.A. L. Rev. 607-45 (1997) [text version , with italics and some formatting missing]
New Rationalist Directions in
Libertarian Rights Theory , 12:2 Journal of Libertarian Studies : 313-26 (Fall 1996)
(Dutch version
Hebben we rechten? Nieuwe rationalistische richtingen in de Libertarische
Rechten Theorie ).
Estoppel: A New Justification for Individual Rights , Reason Papers No. 17 (Fall 1992), p. 61 (evaluation by anonymous reviewer)
The Undeniable Morality of Capitalism (text version ), 25
St. Mary's Law Journal 1419 (1994)
(review essay of Hans-Hermann Hoppe , The Economics and Ethics of
Private Property (1993)).
Book Review (of
Hans-Hermann Hoppe , The Economics and Ethics of
Private Property (1993)), The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty , November 1994.
Intellectual Property
The Intellectual Property Quagmire, or, The Perils of Libertarian Creationism [PPT, 32 MB], Austrian Scholars Conference 2008 , Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn AL, March 13, 2008
In Defense of Napster
and Against the Second Homesteading Rule , September 4, 2000, LewRockwell.com (Polish translation )
Against Intellectual Property free online version ; free Scribd version online ); Spring 2001 version in Journal
of Libertarian Studies ; Spanish translation ;
Polish translation ;
Georgian translation published as chapter in Property and Liberty , Vol. III of the
Library of Liberty series (New Economic School – Georgia , 2005) (selection of free market oriented writers published with support of Friedrich Naumann Foundation (Germany))
(Awarded the Mises Institute 's O.P. Alford III Prize for scholarly article published during
2001-2002 that best advances libertarian scholarship, at the eighth Austrian Scholars Conference, March 16, 2002, in Auburn, Alabama) .
L¾serinterview med Stephan Kinsella (Interview/Chat Forum on IP topics), , Danish libertarian site, Sept. 15, 2006
There's No Such Thing as a Free Patent , Mises.org, Mar. 7, 2005
(Minor) Criticisms of Kinsella , by Bob Murphy; and my reply in the comments section
The Morality of Acquiring and Enforcing Patents , Stephan Kinsella, LewRockwell.com BLOG
Letter to an Anonymous Patent Attorney , Jan. 25, 2002,
LewRockwell.com.
Do patents and
copyrights undermine private property?: Yes , Insight magazine, May 21, 2001
(better-formatted version ) (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])
Letter on Intellectual Property Rights ,
IOS Journal IOS Journal 5, no. 2 (June 1995),
p. 13; and Murray I. Franck, "Intellectual and Personality Property," IOS Journal 5, no. 3
September 1995), p. 7.
Is Intellectual
Property Legitimate? (local copy ), Winter 2000, Federalist Society, based on version previously published in
1 Pennsylvania Bar Association Intellectual Property Newsletter 3 (Winter 1998); ¿Es Legítima la
Propiedad Intelectual? (Spanish translation)
| More IP Links and Resources | | Discussion/Criticism of Kinsella IP Publications |
Law, Economics, Libertarian Issues
Tinsley, Patrick, N. Stephan Kinsella and Walter Block. "In Defense of
Evidence and Against the Exclusionary Rule: A Libertarian Approach ", Southern University Law Review , Vol. 32.1 (2004), pp. 63-80
The Greatest Libertarian Books , LewRockwell.com , August 7, 2006
The Trouble with Libertarian Activism , LewRockwell.com , January 26, 2006
A Simple Libertarian Argument Against Unrestricted Immigration and Open Borders , LewRockwell.com , September 1, 2005 (plus see followup comment here )
A Libertarian Defense of ‘Kelo’ and Limited Federal Power , LewRockwell.com , June 27, 2005 [the takings/fifth amendment/eminent domain case]
Federalism (with Walter Block), LewRockwell.com , May 25, 2005
Causation and Aggression (co-authored with Patrick Tinsley),
The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, vol. 7, no. 4 (winter 2004): 97-112
(based on "Reinach and the Property Libertarians on Causality in the Law," by N. Stephan Kinsella, presented at
Reinach and Rothbard:
An International Symposium , Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama, March 29-30, 2001)
A Theory of Contracts: Binding Promises, Title Transfer,
and Inalienability , Earlier version presented at Law and Economics panel, Austrian Scholars Conference, Auburn, Alabama (April 17, 1999)
(Journal of Libertarian Studies 17:2 (Spring 2003))
Reply to Van Dun: Non-Aggression and Title Transfer , Journal of Libertarian Studies , Volume 18, no. 2 (Spring 2004)
(summary of issue; 2 )
What It Means To Be an Anarcho-Capitalist , January 20, 2004,
LewRockwell.com (Dutch translation: Wat het betekent om anarcho-kapitalist te zijn , MeerVrijheid.nl (copy on Libertarian.nl ), trans. Koen Swinkels; local copy ; Spanish translation: Lo que significa ser anarcocapitalista ;
Polish translation )
In Defense of Evidence: Against the Exclusionary Rule and
Against Libertarian Centralism , with Patrick Tinsley, November 1, 2003,
LewRockwell.com.
When Did the Trouble Start? , September 5, 2003,
LewRockwell.com.
Sandefur and Federal
Supremacy , July 5, 2003,
LewRockwell.com.
Supreme Confusion,
Or, A Libertarian Defense of Affirmative Action , July 4, 2003,
LewRockwell.com.
Of Legal Fictions and Pro-Lincoln Libertarians: Reply to Sandefur , December 31, 2002,
LewRockwell.com.
How I Became A Libertarian , December 18, 2002,
LewRockwell.com.
Fukuyama and Libertarianism , May 6, 2002,
LewRockwell.com.
On Jonah Goldberg's Youthful Phase ,
June 27, 2001, LewRockwell.com.
Knowledge, Calculation,
Conflict, and Law (review essay of Randy E. Barnett, The
Structure of Liberty Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics .
Een Theorie over Contracten: Bindende Afspraken, Eigendomsoverdracht
en Onvervreemdbaarheid (in Dutch)
("A Theory of Contracts: Binding Promises,
Title Transfer, and Inalienability"), trans. Rene van Wissen, in
De Markt voor Vrijheid: 25 jaar
Libertarisme in de Lage Landen A Libertarian Theory of Contracts: Title Transfer, Binding Promises, and Inalienability ,
Earlier version presented at Law and Economics panel, Austrian Scholars Conference, Auburn, Alabama (April 17, 1999)
(Journal of Libertarian Studies 17:2 (Spring 2003))
"The Second Paradox of Blackmail ,"
Business Ethics Quarterly 10, 3 (July 2000): 593-622
(co-authored with
Walter Block and Hans-Hermann Hoppe ).
Economic Calculation Under Socialism , Appendix I to
Protecting Foreign Investment Under International Law:
Legal Aspects of Political Risk Legislation and the Discovery
of Law in a Free Society ," 11 Journal of Libertarian Studies 132 (Summer 1995).
(Note: I have since changed my mind on the some of the issues regarding
the Hayekian "knowledge problem" and Leoni's work in this regard, as I have noted
in subsequent articles, such as the Knowledge, Calculation,
Conflict, and Law review above, footnote 5. Oh, that I had heeded Jeff Herbener's comments on an earlier manuscript, but I either got these comments too late, or did not fully appreciate them at the time.
More information
on the calculation debate. )
General/Social
Review Essays/Book Reviews
Knowledge, Calculation,
Conflict, and Law (review essay of Randy E. Barnett, The
Structure of Liberty Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics .
Book Review
of Anthony de Jasay, Against Politics: On Government, Anarchy, and Order , The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics ,
Vol. 1, No. 3 (Fall 1998): 85-93.
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) [text version ]
(abstract)
Book Review of Patrick Burke, No Harm: Ethical Principles for a Free Market
(1994), Reason Papers No. 20 (Fall 1995), p. 135.
Book Review of Rosalyn Higgins, Problems and Process: International Law and How We Use It
(1994), Reason Papers No. 20 (Fall 1995), p. 147.
Book Review (of
Hans-Hermann Hoppe , The Economics and Ethics of
Private Property (1993)), The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty , vol. 44, p. 640 November 1994
Shorter Pieces/Other
(Selected) College-era (1987-91) Columns, Letters-to-Editor
Column: Israel: Victim of Bloodlust in Middle East? ,
LSU Daily Reveille (Note: written when I was young and in college; I do not now agree with everything
in this column, in part because of my move from Randian minarchism to anarcho-capitalism.)
Minimum Wage Wrong ,
LSU Daily Reveille Minimum Wage Completely, Morally Wrong , Letter to the Editor,
The Morning Advocate Column: Movie Review of Roger Rabbit ,
LSU Daily Reveille The Cult of Modern Ugliness ,
The Wonderland Times (underground LSU student newspaper), vol. 1, no. 8, July 24, 1989
(Note: Written in a more Randian "Objectivist" phase.)
Freedom and Government ,
The Wonderland Times (underground LSU student newspaper), vol. 1, no. 6, July 5, 1989
(Note: Written in my Randian minarchist phase; nowadays I would agree
with Fig. 2, not Fig. 1.)
Fiction/Unpublished/Miscellany
SHORTER PIECES IN BLOGS, SELF-PUBLISHED ESSAYS
General/Miscellaneous
Libertarianism: Property, Rights, Aggression
Hate Crime--Intentional Action and Motivations
Thoughts on Intellectual Property, Scarcity, Labor-ownership, Metaphors, and Lockean Homesteading
The Essence of Libertarianism ("better title", "first possession", etc.)
Libertarian Advocates of Aggression (see links in last paragraph--discussions on
Chronicles site etc. w/ Scott Richert, Ed Feser, et al. about willingness to admit one favors aggression)
Toward A Theory of Bullying
(my reply to Kirkwood ; Karen De Coster's comment )
Yet More On Galambos (On engineers' tendency to be anti-intellectual, cocky brute-force reinvent the wheel types on politics questions); further discussion here
On the incoherence of "would you push the button" Leonard Read type hypotheticals:
Defend Hoppe (comments); Push the Button? (comments);
Stephan Kinsella Ought To Shut His Stupid Cake Hole ; Big Government, Thy Name is Privatization (comments)
On "trespass" theory used for SPAM etc.:
Spyware and Trespass ; http://blog.mises.org/archives/004637.asp
Libertarian Cranks and Nuts
The Corporation
Patents & Intellectual Property
Legal Theory, International Law, Common Law, Private Law
Objectivism/Ayn Rand
Fourteenth Amendment, Constitutionalism, Decentralism, Extreme Federalism
Nuclear, Technology
Unpublished/Draft/Forthcoming Works
Legal Publications
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