Libertarian Legal Theory 5: INTELLECTUAL ROPERTY AND RELATED
Channel: gdmk1000
Date: 2012-03-30

This course is taught by Stephan Kinsella, a leading libertarian theorist. The class will run for six weeks, from January 31, 2011 until March 11, 2011, and will provide detailed discussions of the foundations of libertarian theory and related topics such as individual rights; justice, punishment and restitution; anarchy and minarchy; contract theory; inalienability; property rights and homesteading; intellectual property; legislation versus common law; legal positivism; Austrian economics and libertarianism; and causation and responsibility. Optional testing will include a multiple-choice mid-term exam and a multiple-choice final exam.

Kinsella is Senior Fellow of the Mises Institute, editor of Libertarian Papers, General Counsel for Applied Optoelectronics, and was formerly an adjunct professor at South Texas College of Law.  He has frequently lectured and published on IP law, international law, and the application of libertarian principles to legal topics, including Against Intellectual Property and Property, Freedom, and Society: Essays in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe (co-editor, with Jörg Guido Hülsmann, Mises Institute, 2009).

Syllabus:
    Legal Theory and Austrian Economics
    Scarcity and Property Rights
        Rights as property rights
    The Nature of rights
        the Is-Ought Problem
        Argumentation Ethics and Estoppel
        Universalizability
    Essence of Libertarianism
        Self-ownership
        Homesteading
            Lockean proviso
            Labor ownership and mixing
        Anarcho-libertarianism

Slides & Study materials: http://www.libertarianstandard.com/2012/01/01/kinsellas-libertarian-legal-theory-course-audio-and-slides/