Publications

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Online Archives/Media

• Z-library/b-ok.cc/book4you.org: Stephan Kinsella publications (at https:// then b-ok dot cc then add /s/stephan%20kinsella )
• My Amazon Author Page
• Mises Institute media
• Mises Institute publications (including: Mises Daily, Journal of Libertarian Studies, Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics)
• LewRockwell.com articles and blog posts
• Kinsella posts on the Mises Blog
• Kinsella posts on Against Monopoly blog

Editor/Moderator

• Executive Editor and Founder, Libertarian Papers, 2009–2019 (Editor, 2009-2011; Executive Editor, 2012–2019)
• Book Review Editor, Journal of Libertarian Studies, Summer 2000-Winter 2004

Books

Libertarian

• Property, Freedom, and Society: Essays in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe, co-editor, with Jörg Guido Hülsmann (Mises Institute, 2009) (files/info)
• Against Intellectual Property (Mises Institute, 2008)

Forthcoming

• Law in a Libertarian World: Legal Foundations of a Free Society  (Papinian Press, forthcoming mid-2021)
• Abolish Intellectual Property: Collected Essays (Papinian Press,  forthcoming late 2021)
• Copy This Book: The Case for Abolishing Intellectual Property (Papinian Press, forthcoming 2022)
• The Anti-IP Reader: Free Market Perspectives on Intellectual Property (Papinian Press, forthcoming; co-editor, with David Koepsell and Gary Chartier)
• Libertarian Fallacies (TBD)
• Kinsella’s Selected Blogposts: 2009-2022 (ebook)

Legal

• International Investment, Political Risk, and Dispute Resolution, Second Edition, co-author, with Noah D. Rubins and Thomas N. Papanastasiou (April 2, 2020, Oxford University Press, 2020) (Amazon)
• Louisiana Civil Law Dictionary (Quid Pro Books, 2011; co-author: Gregory Rome)
• International Investment, Political Risk, and Dispute Resolution: A Practitioner’s Guide, co-author (with Noah D. Rubins) (Oxford University Press, 2005) (Book Reviews)
• 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)
• Digest of Commercial Laws of the World, Editor (Oxford University Press, 1998-2011; West/Thomson Reuters 2011–2013)
• World Online Business Law, Co-Editor (with Andrew Simpson, Hong Kong) (Oxford University Press, 2003-2011)
• Online Contract Formation, Co-Editor (with Andrew Simpson, Hong Kong) (Oxford University Press, August 2004) (brochure)
• Trademark Practice and Forms, Editor (Oxford University Press, 2001-2011; West/Thomson Reuters 2011-2013)

Articles

Rights Theory/Libertarian Theory

• “Dialogical Arguments for Libertarian Rights,” in The Dialectics of Liberty (Lexington Books, 2019)
• “The Voluntaryist Constitution,” Mises Wire (10/24/2017).
• “Foreword” to Chase Rachels, A Spontaneous Order: The Capitalist Case for a Stateless Society (2015).
• “Stephan Kinsella on Libertarian Legal Theory, Self-Ownership and Drug Laws,” interview with Anthony Wile, The Daily Bell (July 20, 2014)
• “Foreword,” in Hans-Hermann Hoppe, A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism (Laissez Faire Books ebook edition, 2013)
• “Afterword,” in Hans-Hermann Hoppe, The Great Fiction: Property, Economy, Society, and the Politics of Decline (Laissez Faire Books, 2012)
• “Stephan Kinsella on the Logic of Libertarianism and Why Intellectual Property Doesn’t Exist,” interview with Anthony Wile, The Daily Bell (March 18, 2012)
• “Libertarian  Controversies,” Mises Daily (Aug. 25, 2011), discussing my upcoming Mises Academy course, Libertarian Controversies
• “What Libertarianism Is” (2009)
• “Argumentation Ethics and Liberty: A Concise Guide,” Mises Daily (May 27, 2011) (includes “Discourse Ethics and Liberty: A Skeletal Ebook”)
• “Intellectual Property and Libertarianism” (below)
• What It Means To Be an Anarcho-Capitalist, LewRockwell.com (Jan. 20, 2004)
• How We Come To Own Ourselves, Mises Daily (Sep. 7, 2006) (Mises.org blog discussion; audio version)
• Causation and Aggression (co-authored with Patrick Tinsley), The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, 7:4 (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 (Spring 1996): 51–73
• Defending Argumentation Ethics: Reply to Murphy & Callahan, Anti-state.com (Sept. 19, 2002)
• Inalienability and Punishment: A Reply to George Smith, Journal of Libertarian Studies 14:1 (Winter 1998–1999): 79–93
• 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, Journal of Libertarian Studies 12:2 (Fall 1996) 313–26 [superseded by “Dialogical Arguments for Libertarian Rights,” in The Dialectics of Liberty (Lexington Books, 2019)]
• Estoppel: A New Justification for Individual Rights, Reason Papers No. 17 (Fall 1992), p. 61 (evaluation by anonymous reviewer; audio version)
• 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 (2000, 2008, 2012)
• Do Business Without Intellectual Property (Liberty.me, 2014) (PDF)
• “Intellectual Property Is ‘Evil’—And Businesspeople Should Oppose It,” interview with Jack Criss, BAMSouth (Oct. 29, 2013)
• “Stephan Kinsella on the Logic of Libertarianism and Why Intellectual Property Doesn’t Exist,” interview with Anthony Wile, The Daily Bell (March 18, 2012)
• “Law and Intellectual Property in a Stateless Society,” Libertarian Papers 5 (1) (2013): 1-44 [Lulu.com paper version]
• Anna Zhang, “Creative Rights for Tomorrow,” Asia IP (December 2012-January 2013, quoted/interviewed)
• Will Swaim, “Patently Evil: What if ‘intellectual property’ is bad for business?”, Global Trade (Nov. 2012, quoted/interviewed)
• “The Case Against Intellectual Property,” in Handbook of the Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics (Prof. Dr. Christoph Lütge, ed.; Springer, 2013) (chapter 68, in Part 18, “Property Rights: Material and Intellectual,” Robert McGee, section ed.)
• “Why Intellectual Property is not Genuine Property,” edited transcript of speech delivered at 3^rd Adam Smith Forum, Moscow, Russia (Nov. 12, 2011)
• “Intellectual Property and Economic Development,” Mises University 2011 (July 27, 2011)
• “The Great IP Debate of 1983,” Mises Daily (July 18, 2011)
• “How Intellectual Property Hampers the Free Market,” The Freeman (June 2011), republished as “How to Slow Economic Progress,” Mises Daily (June 1, 2011) (discussed on Mises blog here) (based on my talk “How Intellectual Property Hampers Capitalism,” Mises Institute Supporters’ Summit 2010: “The Economic Recovery:  Washington’s Big Lie” (Oct. 9 2010, Auburn Alabama))
• “Rethinking IP,” Mises Daily (Feb. 10, 2011)
• “Intellectual Freedom and Learning Versus Patent and Copyright,” Economic Notes No. 113 (Libertarian Alliance, Jan. 18, 2011) (also published as “Intellectual Freedom and Learning Versus Patent and Copyright,” The Libertarian Standard, Jan. 19, 2011)
• “Ideas are Free: The Case Against Intellectual Property: or, How Libertarians Went Wrong,”Mises Daily (Nov. 23, 2010; transcript of “Ideas are Free: The Case Against Intellectual Property: or, How Libertarians Went Wrong,” 2010 Annual Meeting, Property and Freedom Society (June 6, 2010))
• “Rethinking Intellectual Property: History, Theory, and Economics,” Mises Daily (Oct. 22, 2010)
• “Understanding IP: An Interview with Stephan Kinsella,” Mises Daily (Oct. 21, 2010, with Jeffrey A. Tucker)
• “How Intellectual Property Hampers Capitalism,” Mises Institute Supporters’ Summit 2010 (Oct. 8-9 2010, Auburn Alabama) (edited transcript of this speech) (published version: “How Intellectual Property Hampers the Free Market,” The Freeman (June 2011))
• “Goods, Scarce and Nonscarce” (with Jeffrey A. Tucker), Mises Daily (Aug. 25, 2010)
• “The Death Throes of Pro-IP Libertarianism,” Mises Daily (July 28, 2010) [Mises blog comments archived — some here, some here]
• “Reducing the Cost of IP Law,” Mises Daily (Jan. 20, 2010) [archived Mises blog comments]
• “Intellectual Property and Libertarianism,” Mises Daily (Nov. 17, 2009) (also published in Liberty)
• “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) (comments on Mises blog archived here)
• “The Intellectual Property Quagmire, or, The Perils of Libertarian Creationism” (Powerpoint; PDF version), Austrian Scholars Conference 2008Rothbard Memorial Lecture (audio; video; Google Video version)
• In Defense of Napster and Against the Second Homesteading Rule, September 4, 2000, LewRockwell.com
• There’s No Such Thing as a Free Patent, Mises Daily (Mar. 7, 2005)
• “The Forgotten Costs of the Patent System,” IP Law & Business (April 2005), vol. 3, p. 18

Intellectual Property-Other

• “Introduction” and chapter “Conversation with Schulman about Logorights and Media-Carried Property” [both available here] in J. Neil Schulman, Origitent: Why Original Content is Property (Steve Heller Publishing, 2018)
• Laserinterview med Stephan Kinsella (Interview/Chat Forum on IP topics), Danish libertarian site, Sept. 15, 2006 (local copy)
• (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 (vs. James DeLong)
• 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), Pennsylvania Bar Association Intellectual Property Newsletter 1 (Winter 1998): 3; republished in the Federalist Society’s Intellectual Property Practice Group Newsletter, vol. 3, Issue 3 (Winter 2000)

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Law, Economics, General Libertarian Issues

• Erudite, Scholarly, and Unfailingly Polite: To Sean Gabb on the Occasion of his Sixtieth Birthday (4 Dec. 2019)
• Beware the Trans-Pacific Partnership: It’s Not About Free Trade, BAMSouth (May 21, 2015)
• Remembering Tibor Machan, Libertarian Mentor and Friend: Reflections on a Giant, FEE.org (April 18, 2016)
• Interview by The Libertarian (Keir Martland), May 10, 2013
• “Read Hoppe, Then Nothing Is the Same,” Mises Daily (June 10 2011)
• “Montessori, Peace, and Libertarianism,” LewRockwell.com (April 28, 2011)
• “Faculty Spotlight Interview: Stephan Kinsella,” Mises Economics Blog (Feb. 11, 2011) [archived]
• “Teaching an Online Mises Academy Course,” Mises Daily (Jan. 10, 2011)
• “Introduction to Libertarian Legal Theory,” Mises Daily (Jan. 3, 2011) (Mises blog discussion)
• “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) (published as “Essays in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe,” Mises Daily, Aug. 7, 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 (wayback version)
• 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 and the post here (No-Treason); and this one here (Raico and Hoppe on Switzerland); and the reply to Neverfox here)
• A Libertarian Defense of Kelo and Limited Federal Power, LewRockwell.com, June 27, 2005 [the takings/fifth amendment/eminent domain case] (wayback version)
• 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)]
• Reply to Van Dun: Non-Aggression and Title Transfer, Journal of Libertarian Studies, 18:2 (Spring 2004): 55–64 (summary of issue)
• 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 (to be included in Law in a Libertarian World)
• 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)
• Book Review of Schulman, The Robert Heinlein Interview and Other Heinleiniana (1991)

Reddit “Ask Me Anything” (AMA)

• I am Stephan Kinsella, libertarian theorist and practicing patent attorney. Ask Me Anything! (Anarcho-capitalism subreddit, Feb. 1, 2018)
• I am Stephan Kinsella, libertarian theorist, opponent of intellectual property law, and practicing patent attorney. Ask Me Anything! (June 7, 2016) (Facebook thread) (announced here)
• I am Stephan Kinsella, a patent attorney and Austrian economics and anarchist libertarian writer who thinks patent and copyright should be abolished. AMA (IAmA subreddit, Jan 22, 2013) (Facebook thread)
• I am Stephan Kinsella, libertarian writer and patent attorney. Ask Me Anything! (Libertarian subreddit, Oct. 22, 2013) (secondary thread)
• I am Stephan Kinsella, anarcho-libertarian writer and patent attorney. Ask Me Anything! (Anarcho-capitalism subreddit, Jan. 16, 2014)

General/Social

• Extreme Prefixes, Jan. 15, 2002, LewRockwell.com.
• New Israel: A Win-Win-Win Proposal, October 1, 2001, LewRockwell.com (related)
• 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 (wayback version), 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 (Nov. 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) (related: Hoppe Victory Blog)
• 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

Significant Blog Posts

• The Superiority of the Roman Law: Scarcity, Property, Locke and Libertarianism (Mises, Aug. 17, 2010) (archived version with comments)
• Hoppe: Marx was “Essentially Correct”
• Extreme Praxeology, Mises, Jan. 19, 2007
• The Other Fields of Praxeology: War, Games, Voting… and Ethics?, Mises, Aug. 5 2006
• The Division of Labor as the Source of Grundnorms and Rights; Empathy and the Source of Rights
• Revisiting Argumentation Ethics, Mises, March 13, 2009
• IP and Aggression as Limits on Property Rights: How They Differ, The Non-Aggression Principle as a Limit on Action, Not on Property Rights, and Objectivist Greg Perkins on Intellectual Property, text at n.6
• State Antitrust (anti-monopoly) law versus state IP (pro-monopoly) law (re Rothbard and “big business”)
• Justice and Property Rights: Rothbard on Scarcity, Property, Contracts…
• Don’t Bet on China; Don’t Bet on China: Redux
• Intellectual Property Imperialism
• Mises Academy etc.: “Teaching an Online Mises Academy Course”; “Fifteen Minutes that Changed Libertarian Publishing“; Doug French, “The Intellectual Revolution Is in Process“; Jeffrey Tucker, “A Theory of Open” and “up with iTunes U“; Gary North, “A Free Week-Long Economics Seminar”.
• Corporations: Rothbard on Corporations and Limited Liability for Tort; Legitimizing the Corporation and Other Posts; Defending Corporations: Block and Huebert; Pilon on Corporations: A Discussion with Kevin Carson; Corporations and Limited Liability for Torts; In Defense of the Corporation;
• The Libertarian Approach to Negligence, Tort, and Strict Liability: Wergeld and Partial Wergeld; Fraud, Restitution, and Retaliation: The Libertarian Approach; The Problem with “Fraud”: Fraud, Threat, and Contract Breach as Types of Aggression; Trademark and Fraud
• Locke on IP; Mises, Rothbard, and Rand on Creation, Production, and “Rearranging”; Libertarian Creationism; Rand on IP, Owning “Values”, and “Rearrangement Rights”; Locke, Smith, Marx and the Labor Theory of Value; this comment to “Trademark and Fraud”; Elaborations on Randian IP; Objectivists on IP
• Hoppe on Liberal Economies and War
• Hoppe on Covenant Communities and Advocates of Alternative Lifestyles
• Hoppe Is Not A Monarchist
• Hoppe on Falsificationism, Empiricism, and Apriorism and Protophysics
• Hoppe on Property Rights in Physical Integrity vs Value
• Spooner on Knaves, Dupes, and the Constitution; and the Highwayman vs. The State
• IP posts: see C4SIF Resources page
• Property Title Records and Insurance in a Free Society
• The Appeal of States
• California Gay Marriage Law Overturned: What Should Libertarians Think?; Is Gay Marriage a Constitutional Right?, McElroy and Peron on Gay Marriage, and The Libertarian Case for Gay Marriage.
• A Critique of Mutualist Occupancy
• Justice and Property Rights: Rothbard on Scarcity, Property, Contracts…
• The Nature of the State and Why Libertarians Hate It
• Why Spam is Trespass; Spam as a Nuisance; Spyware and Trespass; Causation, Spam, and Worms
• Another Problem with Legislation: James Carter v. the Field Codes
• On the Danger of Metaphors in Scientific Discourse

Other Blog Posts

• 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) (also The UN, International Law, and Nuclear Weapons and International Law and the Criminal Court)
• Palmer on Hoppe, Coase, and Wealth-Maximization
• Palmer on Patents (in Pilon on Patents)
• License to Breed? (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: On Pushing the Button–the problem with magic; also 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

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