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James Boyle
William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor of Law
School of Law
boyle@law.duke.edu
Duke Law School Room 3026, Duke Box 90362, Durham, NC 27708-0360
Duke Law School 210 Science Dr, Duke Box 90362, Durham, NC 27708
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Selected Publications
The Unperson Of 2023
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Techdirt
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2024
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The Line: AI and the Future of Personhood
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2024
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A Love Letter to the Regular Pickup Game
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Washington Post
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2022
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Misunderestimating Openness, Paradox of Open: Responses
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Open Future
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2022
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Mark of the Devil: The University as Brand Bully
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Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal
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2021
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Intellectual Property: Law & the Information Society: Cases & Materials
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2021
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Dumping: On Law Reviews
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Green Bag 2d
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2021
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Everything You Know About Section 230 Is Wrong (But Why?)
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Techdirt
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2021
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Duke’s Sturgis Graduation Do-Over
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UWIRE
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2021
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Is the Internet Over?! (Again?)
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Duke Law & Technology Review
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2019
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The Past and Future of the Internet: A Symposium for John Perry Barlow
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Duke Law & Technology Review
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2019
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Theft! A History of Music
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2017
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(When) Is Copyright Reform Possible?
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2017
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Intellectual Property: Law & the Information Society Selected Statutes & Treaties
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2016
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Open Legal Educational Materials: The Frequently Asked Questions
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Washington Journal of Law, Technology & Arts
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2015
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Intellectual Property: Law & the Information Society Cases & Materials
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2014
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Public by Sufferance Alone: The Worst of 2012
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Huffington Post
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2013
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Open Source Innovation, Patent, Injunctions, and the Public Interest
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Duke Law Technology Review
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2012
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Endowed by Their Creator?: The Future of Constitutional Personhood
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2011
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Presumed Guilty
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Financial Times
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2011
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Fantasy and Reality in Intellectual Property Policy
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Financial Times
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2010
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Who Steals the Gene from off the Common
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Financial Times
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2010
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Monopolists of the Genetic Code?
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Financial Times
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2010
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Hot News: The Next Bad Thing
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Financial Times
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2010
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Obamas Mixed Record on Tech Policy
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Financial Times
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2010
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Conversations with Renowned Professors on the Future of Copyright
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Tulane Journal of Technology & Intellectual Property
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2009
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What Intellectual Property Law Should Learn from Software
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Communications of the ACM
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2009
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Dissociated Press
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Financial Times
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2009
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A Copyright Black Hole Swallows Our Culture
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Financial Times
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2009
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Obama in Cyberspace
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Financial Times
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2009
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Misunderestimating Open Science
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Financial Times
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2009
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What the Information Superhighways Aren't Built of...
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Financial Times
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2009
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The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind
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2008
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Bound by Law?: Tales from the Public Domain
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2008
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Intellectual Property: The Key Challenges
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2008
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And The Band Played On...
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Financial Times
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2008
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Sacrificing at the Altar of Patents
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Financial Times
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2008
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A Czar for the Digital Peasants
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Financial Times
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2008
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Obamas Team Must Fight Cultural Agoraphobia'
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Financial Times
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2008
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Book-burning, Legal Style
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Financial Times
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2008
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A Creative Coup for the Trainspotters
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Financial Times
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2008
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Synthetic Biology: Caught between Property Rights, the Public Domain, and the Commons
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PLoS Biology
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March 13, 2007
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Cultural Environmentalism and Beyond
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Law and Contemporary Problems
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2007
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Towards a Global Learning Commons
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Educational Technology
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2007
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Mertonianism Unbound?: Imagining Free, Decentralized Access to Most Cultural and Scientific Material
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2007
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Promoting Innovation, Protecting Intellectual Property: Towards Evidence Based Policy
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2007
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Bound by Law?: Tales from the Public Domain
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2006
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A Manifesto on WIPO and the Future of Intellectual Property
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Duke Law & Technology Review
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2004
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What the Squabbles Over Genetic Patents Could Teach Us
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Advances in Genetics
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2003
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Foreword: The Opposite of Property?
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Law and Contemporary Problems
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2003
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The Second Enclosure Movement and the Construction of the Public Domain
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Law and Contemporary Problems
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2003
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Fencing Off Ideas: Enclosure & the Disappearance of the Public Domain
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Daedalus
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2002
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Cruel, Mean, or Lavish? Economic Analysis, Price Discrimination and Digital Intellectual Property
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Vanderbilt Law Review
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2000
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The First Amendment and Cyberspace: The Clinton Years
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Law and Contemporary Problems
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2000
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A Nondelegation Doctrine for the Digital Age?
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Duke Law Journal
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2000
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Conservatives and Intellectual Property: Address to the Federalist Society
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Engage
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2000
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Anachronism of the Moral Sentiments?: Integrity, Postmodernism, and Justice
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Stanford Law Review
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1999
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Foucault in Cyberspace: Surveillance, Sovereignty, and Hardwired Censors
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University of Cincinnati Law Review
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1997
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A Politics of Intellectual Property: Environmentalism for the Net
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Duke Law Journal
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1997
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Intellectual Property Policy Online: A Young Person's Guide
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Harvard Journal of Law and Technology
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1996
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Shamans, Software, and Spleens: Law and the Construction of the Information Society
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1996
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Legal Realism and the Social Contract: Fuller's Public Jurisprudence of Form, Private, Jurisprudence of Substance
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Cornell Law Review
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1993
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The PC Harangue
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Stanford Law Review
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1993
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A Theory of Law and Information: Copyright, Spleens, Blackmail, and Insider Trading
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California Law Review
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1992
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Critical Legal Studies
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1992
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Is Subjectivity Possible? The Post Modern Subject in Legal Theory
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University of Colorado Law Review
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1991
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A Process of Denial: Bork and Post-Modern Conservatism
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Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities
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1990
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The Search for an Author: Shakespeare and the Framers
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American University Law Review
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1988
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In Re William Shakespeare'
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American University Law Review
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1988
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Thomas Hobbes and the Invented Tradition of Positivism: Reflections on Language, Power, and Essentialism
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University of Pennsylvania Law Review
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1987
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Legal Fiction
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Hastings Law Journal
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1987
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The Politics of Reason
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University of Pennsylvania Law Review
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1985
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Ideals and Things: International Legal Scholarship and the Prison-House of Language
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Harvard International Law Journal
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1985
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The Anatomy of a Torts Class
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American University Law Review
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1985
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A Symposium of Critical Legal Studies: Introduction
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American University Law Review
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1985
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Modernist Social Theory: Roberto Unger's Passion
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Harvard Law Review
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1985
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