[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":9},["ShallowReactive",2],{"person-bio-stephan-kinsella":3},{"bio":4},[5,6,7,8],"Stephan Kinsella is a libertarian legal theorist, author and retired patent attorney in Houston, Texas, best known for the argument that intellectual property is not property at all. Against Intellectual Property appeared in the Journal of Libertarian Studies in 2001 and was reissued as a monograph by the Mises Institute in 2008. It is the standard statement of the anti-IP position in libertarian legal theory, and the reason the question is still argued rather than assumed.","His collected legal theory was published in 2023 as Legal Foundations of a Free Society, some eight hundred pages gathering essays written across nearly three decades, with a foreword by Hans-Hermann Hoppe and released into the public domain, which is the only consistent way to publish that particular book. In 2025 he published The Universal Principles of Liberty with Alessandro Fusillo, David Dürr and Patrick Tinsley, and his legal writing includes International Investment, Political Risk, and Dispute Resolution, now in a second edition from Oxford University Press.","He took engineering degrees at Louisiana State University before his law degree there, and an LL.M. in international business law at King’s College London. He practised at Jackson Walker, at Schnader Harrison and as a partner at Duane Morris, taught as an adjunct law professor at South Texas College of Law, and was general counsel of Applied Optoelectronics from 2000 to 2012.","He founded and edited the journal Libertarian Papers from 2009 to 2018, has directed the Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom since 2010, and has hosted the Kinsella on Liberty podcast since 2013. Why the argument matters to a Free City is practical rather than doctrinal: a new jurisdiction has to decide what its law will recognise as property before it can enforce anything, and patents and copyrights are the case where that choice is least settled.",1789144613632]