CUP is publishing a new book on
the history of intellectual property law.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Drawing on macro-historical
sociological theories, this book traces the development of intellectual
property as a new type of legal property in the modern nation-state system. In
its current form, intellectual property is considered part of an infrastructure
of state power that incentivizes innovation, creativity, and scientific
development, all engines of economic growth. To show how this infrastructure of
power emerged, Laura Ford follows macro-historical social theorists, including
Michael Mann and Max Weber, back to antiquity, revealing that legal instruments
very similar to modern intellectual property have existed for a long time and
have also been deployed for similar purposes. Using comparative and historical
evidence, this groundbreaking work reflects on the role of intellectual
property in our contemporary political communities and societies; on the close
relationship between law and religion; and on the extent to which law's
obliging force depends on ancient, written traditions.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Laura R. Ford, Bard College, New
York
Laura R. Ford is Assistant
Professor of Sociology at Bard College. Professor Ford is a former attorney
turned sociologist, specializing in historical sociology and the sociological
theory of Max Weber.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
1. Legal Institutions and Social
Power: Setting the Stage
2. Legal Orders and Social
Performance: Founding Facebook
3. Instruments of Legal Power in
the Roman Republic
4. Semantic Legal Ordering:
Idealizing Roman Law
5. Cultural Transformations:
Christianizing Legal Power
6. Privileges and Immunities in a
Sacramentalizing Order
7. Administrative Kingship and
Covenantal Bonds: Early Roots of Intellectual Property in England
8. Intellectual Property in a
Nationalizing Order
9. Cultural Transformations:
Naturalizing Intellectual Property
10. Semantic Legal Ordering:
Idealizing Intellectual Property
11. Instruments of Legal Power in
the American Republic
12. Legal Institutions and Social
Performance: Founding a Global Order
Conclusion – The Intellectual
Property of Nations.
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