The intellectual property of nations : sociological and historical perspectives on a modern legal institution / Laura R. Ford.
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
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K1401.F673 2021
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Description
x, 431 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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Based on author's thesis (doctoral - Cornell University, 2014) issued under title: Intellectual property : a study in the formulation and effects of legal culture.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction -- Legal institutions and social power : setting the stage -- Legal orders and social performance : founding Facebook -- Instruments of legal power in the Roman Republic -- Semantic legal ordering : idealizing Roman Law -- Cultural transformations : christianizing legal power -- Privileges and immunities in a sacramentalizing order -- Administrative kingship & covenantal bonds : early roots of intellectual property in England -- Intellectual property in a nationalizing order -- Cultural transformations : naturalizing intellectual property -- Semantic legal ordering : idealizing intellectual property -- Instruments of legal power in the American Republic -- Legal institutions and social performance : founding a global order -- Conclusion : the intellectual property of nations.
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