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RECENT & SELECTED/FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS/SPEECHES | ONLINE ARCHIVES | EDITOR/MODERATOR BOOKS | Property, Freedom, and Society | Against Intellectual Property ARTICLES | Rights Theory (What Libertarianism Is | What It Means to be an Anarcho-Capitalist) | Intellectual Property | Against Intellectual Property | The IP Quagmire| Law, Economics, Libertarian Issues | Causation and Aggression | General/Social | Review Essays/Book Reviews | Shorter Pieces/Other | College-era Columns and Letters-to-editor FICTION/UNPUBLISHED/MISCELLANY | SHORTER/BLOGS/UNPUBLISHED ESSAYS | UNPUBLISHED/DRAFT | LEGAL PUBLICATIONS

Recent & Selected Publications and Speeches

• “Legislation and Law in a Free Society,” Mises Daily (Feb. 25, 2010)
• “Reducing the Cost of IP Law,” Mises Daily (Jan. 20, 2010)
• “Fifteen Minutes that Changed Libertarian Publishing,” Mises Daily (Jan. 12, 2010)
• “Intellectual Property and Libertarianism,” Mises Daily (Nov. 17, 2009) (earlier version published in Liberty (Dec. 2009))
• “Radical Patent Reform Is Not on the Way,” Mises Daily (Oct. 1, 2009)
• “The Case Against IP: A Concise Guide,” Mises Daily (Sept. 4, 2009)
• Property, Freedom, and Society: Essays in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe (co-editor, with Jörg Guido Hülsmann, Mises Institute, 2009)
• “Introduction,” with Jörg Guido Hülsmann, in Hülsmann & Kinsella, eds., Property, Freedom, and Society: Essays in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Mises Institute, 2009); also published as a Mises Daily article on August 7, 2009.
• “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)
• International Investment, Political Risk, and Dispute Resolution: A Practitioner’s Guide, Co-Author (with Noah D. Rubins) (Oxford University Press, 2005) (2nd ed. forthcoming 2010)
• Louisiana Civil Law Dictionary ([publisher not determined], 2010) (co-author: Gregory Rome)
• Ethics of Action: Fundamentals of Libertarian Legal Theory (Mises Institute, forthcoming 2010)
• 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], Rothbard Memorial Lecture, Austrian Scholars Conference 2008 (Audio; Video; Google Video version), Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn AL, March 13, 2008
• Against Intellectual Property (Mises Institute, 2008) (audio book version)

Online Archives/Media

• 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

Editor/Moderator

• Editor and Founder, Libertarian Papers, Jan. 2009-present
• Book Review Editor, Journal of Libertarian Studies, Summer 2000-Winter 2004

Books

• Property, Freedom, and Society: Essays in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe, co-editor, with Jörg Guido Hülsmann (Mises Institute, 2009) [Mises Store; Amazon; Mises.org PDF download; Google books version; local PDF copy; contents and more information]
• Against Intellectual Property (Mises Institute, 2008) (audio book version)
• The Ethics of Action: Fundamentals of Libertarian Legal Theory (Mises Institute, forthcoming 2010)

Legal

• International Investment, Political Risk, and Dispute Resolution: A Practitioner’s Guide, Co-Author (with Noah D. Rubins, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Paris) (Oxford University Press, 2005) (2nd ed. forthcoming 2010) (Book Reviews; Online Appendix XVII, “Online Resources”)
• Digest of Commercial Laws of the World, Editor (Oxford University Press, 1998-present)
• World Online Business Law, Co-Editor (with Andrew Simpson, Hong Kong) (Oxford University Press, 2003-present)
• Online Contract Formation, Co-Editor (with Andrew Simpson, Hong Kong) (Oxford University Press, August 2004) (brochure)
• Trademark Practice and Forms, Editor (Oxford University Press, 2001-present)
• Protecting Foreign Investment Under International Law: Legal Aspects of Political Risk, Co-Author (with Paul E. Comeaux) (Dobbs Ferry, New York: Oceana Publications, 1997) (Book Reviews/Related Links)
• Louisiana Civil Law Dictionary (forthcoming, 2010) (co-author: Gregory Rome)

Articles

Rights Theory/Libertarian Theory

• “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)
• “Intellectual Property and Libertarianism” (below)
• What It Means To Be an Anarcho-Capitalist, January 20, 2004, LewRockwell.com
  • Anti-state.com discussion
  • 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
• How We Come To Own Ourselves, Mises Daily (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 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-Primary

• Against Intellectual Property, Mises Institute (2008) [Mises Store; PDF; Scribd; HTML; audio book version]
  • Contra la propiedad intelectual (Spanish translation; Youtube version); Przeciw własności intelektualnej (Polish translation); Georgian translation (in Property and Liberty, Vol. III of the Library of Liberty series (New Economic School–Georgia, 2005); Contra a Propriedade Intelectual (Portugese translation, 2009); Contro La Proprietà Intellettuale (Italian translation, 2009; .doc file)
  • “Against Intellectual Property,” Journal of Libertarian Studies (Spring 2001) (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)
• “Reducing the Cost of IP Law,” Mises Daily (Jan. 20, 2010)
• “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]; based on speech 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)
• “Radical Patent Reform Is Not on the Way,” Mises Daily (Oct. 1, 2009)
• “The Case Against IP: A Concise Guide,” Mises Daily (Sept. 4, 2009)
• “The Intellectual Property Quagmire, or, The Perils of Libertarian Creationism” (Powerpoint; PDF version), Austrian Scholars Conference 2008 Rothbard Memorial Lecture (audio; video; Google Video version)
• In Defense of Napster and Against the Second Homesteading Rule, September 4, 2000, LewRockwell.com (W obronie Napstera i przeciwko Drugiej Zasadzie Zagospodarowania (Polish translation))
• There’s No Such Thing as a Free Patent, Mises Daily (Mar. 7, 2005)

Intellectual Property-Other

• Laserinterview med Stephan Kinsella (Interview/Chat Forum on IP topics), Danish libertarian site, Sept. 15, 2006
• (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 (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])
• Letter on Intellectual Property Rights, IOS Journal 5, no. 2 (June 1995), pp. 12-13 (including: David Kelley, “Response to Kinsella,” 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 Pennsylvania Bar Association Intellectual Property Newsletter 1 (Winter 1998): 3; Es Legitima la Propiedad Intelectual? (Spanish translation)

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Law, Economics, General Libertarian Issues

• “Fifteen Minutes that Changed Libertarian Publishing,” Mises Daily (Jan. 12, 2010)
• “Introduction,” with Jörg Guido Hülsmann, in Hülsmann & Kinsella, eds., Property, Freedom, and Society: Essays in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Mises Institute, 2009)
• Tinsley, Patrick, 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 7, no. 4 (winter 2004): 97-112 (based on “Reinach and the Property Libertarians on Causality in the Law,” by Stephan Kinsella, presented at Reinach and Rothbard: An International Symposium, Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama, March 29-30, 2001)
• A Libertarian Theory of Contract: Title Transfer, Binding Promises, and Inalienability, Journal of Libertarian Studies 17, no. 2 (Spring 2003): 11-37 [based on paper presented at Law and Economics panel, Austrian Scholars Conference, Auburn, Alabama (April 17, 1999)]; Dutch translation: Een Theorie over Contracten: Bindende Afspraken, Eigendomsoverdracht en Onvervreemdbaarheid, trans. Rene van Wissen, in De Markt voor Vrijheid: 25 jaar Libertarisme in de Lage Landen [The Market for Liberty: 25 years of Libertarianism in the Lowlands [Netherlands plus Belgium]], eds. Stefan van Glabbeek & Aschwin de Wolf, Libertarisch Centrum Nederland [Libertarian Centre Netherlands] (2001)
• Reply to Van Dun: Non-Aggression and Title Transfer, Journal of Libertarian Studies, Volume 18, no. 2 (Spring 2004) (summary of issue; 2)
• 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), Winter 1999, Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics.
• “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 (1997)
• “Legislation and the Discovery of Law in a Free Society,” Journal of Libertarian Studies 11 (Summer 1995), p. 132. (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.)
• The Duty to Defend Advertising Injuries Caused by Junk Faxes: An Analysis of Privacy, Spam, Detection and Blackmail, with Walter Block & Roy Whitehead, 27:4 Whittier Law Review: 925-49 (2006)

General/Social

• Extreme Prefixes, Jan. 15, 2002, LewRockwell.com.
• New Israel: A Win-Win-Win Proposal, October 1, 2001, LewRockwell.com.
• In Defense of Gary Condit, August 31, 2001, LewRockwell.com.
• Let Kids Smoke, July 25, 2000, LewRockwell.com.
• Libertarians & the Religious Right: an Interview with Stephan Kinsella (link to original site), by Alberto Mingardi, Laissez Faire City Times, v. 2.39

Review Essays/Book Reviews

• 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
• Knowledge, Calculation, Conflict, and Law (review essay of Randy E. Barnett, The Structure of Liberty), Winter 1999, 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

• “Legislation and Law in a Free Society,” Mises Daily (Feb. 25, 2010)
• The Ordeal of Hoppe (with Jeffrey Tucker), The Free Market, Volume 25, Number 4, April 2005
• Perspective: Pride and the Nanny State, 46 The Freeman 194 (April 1996)
• Legislation and Law in a Free Society,” 45 The Freeman 561 (September 1995)

(Selected) College-era (1987-91) Columns, Letters-to-Editor

• On the Fourth Amendment, letter to Chronicles (March 1996), regarding Larry Pratt’s comments on the exclusionary rule
• Column: Israel: Victim of Bloodlust in Middle East?, LSU Daily Reveille, June 21, 1988 (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.)
• Sales tax may be savior of future, LSU Daily Reveille, April 15, 1988
• Minimum Wage Wrong, LSU Daily Reveille, Mar. 23, 1988
• Minimum Wage Completely, Morally Wrong, Letter to the Editor, The Morning Advocate, Aprl 22, 1988
• Column: Movie Review of Roger Rabbit, LSU Daily Reveille, July 28, 1988
• 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.)
• Ticket Me, Goddamnit!, The Wonderland Times (underground LSU student newspaper), Oct. 23, 1989
• Poem Rebuttal, letter to the editor, LSU Daily Reveille, September (?), 1985 (?) (defense of Leona Helmsley)

Fiction/Unpublished/Miscellany

• The Subjectivist’s Lament (short story; draft; 1980s?)

Shorter Pieces in Blogs; Self-Published Essays

General/Miscellaneous

• Kinsella posts on the Mises Blog
• Kinsella posts on Against Monopoly blog

• Repudiate the Iraqi Debt! (Odious Debt doctrine)
• Good and Bad Judicial Activism
• On Former Lefties
• Peculium
• Heroic Google
• “The” Libertarian View on Gay Marriage; On Gay Marriage
• Future of Freedom Fund (Mises blog version) (Holdeen trusts & tax free government)
• The Enlightened Bar (Texas Bar Journal affirmative action policy)
• “Doctor” Lawyer?
• A Conservative Argument for Abortion
• WarLibertarians; More on Schulman v. Huebert; Stromberg on Liberventionists
• Cool Footnote Policy (the Green Bag & goulash)
• Nukes and International Law (Legality of Nuclear Weapons)
• Palmer on Hoppe, Coase, and Wealth-Maximization
• Palmer on Patents
• License to Breed? (2) (about Louisiana’s forced heirship law; positive obligations of parents to their children; whether a deadbeat dad ought to be prohibited from having more kids; Buck v. Bell–”three generations of imbeciles are enough”)

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; Spam, Spyware, Spiders and Trespass

Libertarian Cranks and Nuts

• On Libertarian/Right-wing Cranks and Nutjobs

The Corporation

• Legitimizing the Corporation
• In Defense of the Corporation

Patents & Intellectual Property

• Intellectual Property Resources
• The Growing Anti-IP Movement (extensive comment thread)
• Bastiat’s Three Stages of Invention (see my comments, regarding whether patents are monopolies, and the problem with using Rothbard’s copyright idea to protect inventions; etc.)
• Condemning Patents
• French Book on The Economics of Patents and Copyrights (on out current ability to estimate the value of a patent system)
• Patents and Utilitarian Thinking; also: Drug Patents & Welfare
• Copyright and Video Games
• Improving Copyright Law: Baby Steps
• For Blackberry Users Out There… (extensive discussion in comments about patent law and utilitarianism)
• Intellectual Property & Scarcity (recent blog post by Stephen Gordon of Hammer of Truth, discussing my views and those of Volokh; discussion on EconLog about my and Volokh’s IP views)
• Cato Tugs Stray Back Onto Reservation (Cato flap about Doug Bandow opposing free trade in pharmaceuticals)
• Thoughts on Intellectual Property, Scarcity, Labor-ownership, Metaphors, and Lockean Homesteading

Legal Theory, International Law, Common Law, Private Law

• Book Recommendations: Private, International, and Common Law; Legal Theory

Objectivism/Ayn Rand

• Objectivism Schism Form Lettter
• Mises and Rand (and Rothbard)
• Objectivism and the Austrians (by Jeff Tucker, w/ replies)
• Randian Hoppe(?), Austrian Rand(?)
• Objectivists on the Bandow/Cato Scandal (see my extensive comments regarding Objectivists on anarchy, aggression, civilization, the silliness of Randians’ “breaking” with each other, etc.); related post: I Break For Randians and discussion on Rule of Reason blog, The Culture: Intolerant Tolerationists?; also Matthew McConaughey and Penelope Cruz are Objectivists!

Fourteenth Amendment, Constitutionalism, Decentralism, Extreme Federalism

• More on Kelo and Federalism (Mises blog)
• Fourteenth Amendment Resources (LRC Bloc)
• Libertarian Centralists
• Barnett and the Fourteenth Amendment
• The Appeal of States
• State and Religion (discussing Congregationalism and established religion in US colonies/13 original states)
• Federalism and Libertarians on Eminent Domain (discussing Congregationalism etc.)
• my “Kelo” article (discussing Congregationalism etc.)

Nuclear, Technology

• Green Nukes
• Nuclear Spring (only a matter of time before environmentalists start advocating nuclear power)
• Nuke Me (on new technology to bury nuclear waste)
• Nuclear Energy Links
• Dam Nukes (safety of nuclear; danger of hydroelectric)
• The Bottomless Well
• Nuclear Spring — Thermal Depolymerization?

Unpublished/Draft Works

• “Natural Law and Positive Law,” “Self Defense, Punishment, and Proportionality,” and “The Theory of Contracts,” Notes from presentations at the Rothbard Graduate Seminar, July 28–Aug. 2, 2002, Mises Institute, Auburn AL.

Legal Publications

• Available at KinsellaLaw.com