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James Boyle

William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor of Law
School of Law
Duke Law School Room 3026, Duke Box 90362, Durham, NC 27708-0360
Duke Law School 210 Science Dr, Duke Box 90362, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Publications


The Unperson Of 2023

Other Techdirt · 2024 Link to item Cite

A Love Letter to the Regular Pickup Game

Other Washington Post · 2022 Cite

Mark of the Devil: The University as Brand Bully

Journal Article Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal · 2021 Link to item Cite

Dumping: On Law Reviews

Journal Article Green Bag 2d · 2021 Link to item Cite

Is the Internet Over?! (Again?)

Journal Article Duke Law & Technology Review · 2019 Link to item Cite

Open Legal Educational Materials: The Frequently Asked Questions

Journal Article Washington Journal of Law, Technology & Arts · 2015 Link to item Cite

Presumed Guilty

Other Financial Times · 2011 Cite

Who Steals the Gene from off the Common

Other Financial Times · 2010 Cite

Monopolists of the Genetic Code?

Other Financial Times · 2010 Cite

Hot News: The Next Bad Thing

Other Financial Times · 2010 Cite

Obamas Mixed Record on Tech Policy

Other Financial Times · 2010 Cite

Conversations with Renowned Professors on the Future of Copyright

Journal Article Tulane Journal of Technology & Intellectual Property · 2009 Cite

What Intellectual Property Law Should Learn from Software

Journal Article Communications of the ACM · 2009 Cite

Dissociated Press

Other Financial Times · 2009 Cite

A Copyright Black Hole Swallows Our Culture

Other Financial Times · 2009 Cite

Obama in Cyberspace

Other Financial Times · 2009 Cite

Misunderestimating Open Science

Other Financial Times · 2009 Cite

And The Band Played On...

Other Financial Times · 2008 Cite

Sacrificing at the Altar of Patents

Other Financial Times · 2008 Cite

A Czar for the Digital Peasants

Other Financial Times · 2008 Cite

Book-burning, Legal Style

Other Financial Times · 2008 Cite

A Creative Coup for the Trainspotters

Other Financial Times · 2008 Cite

Cultural Environmentalism and Beyond

Journal Article Law and Contemporary Problems · 2007 Link to item Cite

Towards a Global Learning Commons

Journal Article Educational Technology · 2007 Cite

A Manifesto on WIPO and the Future of Intellectual Property

Journal Article Duke Law & Technology Review · 2004 Link to item Cite

What the Squabbles Over Genetic Patents Could Teach Us

Journal Article Advances in Genetics · 2003 Cite

Foreword: The Opposite of Property?

Journal Article Law and Contemporary Problems · 2003 Link to item Cite

The First Amendment and Cyberspace: The Clinton Years

Journal Article Law and Contemporary Problems · 2000 Link to item Cite

A Nondelegation Doctrine for the Digital Age?

Journal Article Duke Law Journal · 2000 Link to item Cite

Foucault in Cyberspace: Surveillance, Sovereignty, and Hardwired Censors

Journal Article University of Cincinnati Law Review · 1997 Link to item Cite

Intellectual Property Policy Online: A Young Person's Guide

Journal Article Harvard Journal of Law and Technology · 1996 Link to item Cite

The PC Harangue

Journal Article Stanford Law Review · 1993 Link to item Cite

Is Subjectivity Possible? The Post Modern Subject in Legal Theory

Journal Article University of Colorado Law Review · 1991 Link to item Cite

A Process of Denial: Bork and Post-Modern Conservatism

Journal Article Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities · 1990 Link to item Cite

The Search for an Author: Shakespeare and the Framers

Journal Article American University Law Review · 1988 Link to item Cite

In Re William Shakespeare'

Journal Article American University Law Review · 1988 Link to item Cite

Legal Fiction

Journal Article Hastings Law Journal · 1987 Link to item Cite

The Politics of Reason

Journal Article University of Pennsylvania Law Review · 1985 Link to item Cite

The Anatomy of a Torts Class

Journal Article American University Law Review · 1985 Link to item Cite

A Symposium of Critical Legal Studies: Introduction

Journal Article American University Law Review · 1985 Link to item Cite

Modernist Social Theory: Roberto Unger's Passion

Journal Article Harvard Law Review · 1985 Link to item Cite