Rosemary Coombe
Department of Anthropology
Department of Social Science
department-of-social-science
Professor
Canada Research Chair, Graduate Program Director of Anthropology
Programs: Law & Society (LASO), Socio-Legal Studies (SLST), and Social and Political Thought (SPTH)
Office: 2054C Vari Hall
Phone: 416 736 2100 Ext: 30157
Email: rcoombe@yorku.ca
Primary website: www.yorku.ca/rcoombe
Accepting New Graduate Students
Rosemary’s current work explores and problematizes the politics and social implications of cultural property laws, heritage, biocultural rights, food sovereignty, and agroecology, delineating how each intersects with neoliberalism, informational capital, and human rights, particularly in specific contemporary Latin American and Southeast Asian contexts.
Rosemary J. Coombe is a Tier One Canada Research Chair in Law, Communication and Culture (2001-2022) at York University in Toronto, where she teaches in the Department of Anthropology, the York and Ryerson Joint Graduate Program in Communication and Culture, and the Graduate Program in Socio-Legal Studies. Prior to being awarded one of the country’s first Canada Research Chairs, she was Full Professor of Law at the University of Toronto.
Published widely in the fields of legal anthropology, cultural studies, and sociolegal studies, Rosemary holds a Doctorate of Science of Law (J.S.D.) from Stanford University, with a Minor in Anthropology, has published over thirty referred book chapters and over forty referred journal articles, and has delivered over two hundred and thirty conference lectures and papers. She has held research fellowships at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, Utrecht and Gottingen Universities, and the American Bar Foundation and visitorships at the Universities of Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Iowa, American, De Paul, and Chicago. In spring 2018 she was the Visiting Professor at the Universidad de Los Andes in Bogota, Colombia and the T.C. Bierne Visiting Fellow at the University of Queensland Law School in Australia.
Exploring the cultural, political, and social implications of intellectual property law, Rosemary’s current work explores and problematizes the politics of cultural property, heritage, biocultural rights, food sovereignty, and agroecology, delineating how each intersects with neoliberalism, informational capital and human rights, particularly in contemporary Andean Community and Southeast Asian contexts. Her larger project titled The Work of Culture in the Era of Informational Capital: Global Intellectual Property and Its Publics, explores how indigenist movements and NGOs increasingly mobilize culture as a resource by articulating and transforming international legal and policy norms locally and in transnational contexts. The volume explores how intellectual property rhetoric and legal vehicles combined with rights practices are used to protect cultural diversity, traditional knowledge, and cultural heritage. How and why has the advent of the information economy revitalized contemporary cultural claims, and to what extent can appeals for the protection of traditions serve progressive ends?
Her first book was a legal ethnography The Cultural Life of Intellectual Properties: Authorship, Appropriation, and the Law (Duke University Press, published in 1998 and reprinted in 2008), exploring the different ways in which intellectual property law shapes cultural politics in consumer societies. It received a Law and Society Association Herbert Jacob Award Honorable Mention (second prize) for best new book in law and society scholarship in June 2000. In 2014 Rosemary co-edited with Darren Wershler and Martin Zeilinger the University of Toronto Press volume, Dynamic Fair Dealing: Creating Canadian Culture Online, whose over two dozen contributions, authored by scholars, practitioners and artists working in varied disciplines and genres, clarify the intersections between Canadian copyright law, digital technologies and practices of dynamic fair dealing, emphasizing emergent approaches to creating, circulating and managing digital cultural objects that challenge or present alternatives to traditional intellectual property and cultural policy paradigms.
Degrees
J.S.D./Ph.D. (Doctor of the Science of Law/Minor in Anthropology), Stanford UniversityJ.S.M. (Master of the Science of Law), Stanford University
LL.B. (With Great Distinction) Highest standing in graduating class, University of Western Ontario
B.A. (Honors) Anthropology/Political Science, University of Western Ontario
Appointments
Faculty of Graduate StudiesProfessional Leadership
2001-2022 Canada Research Chair in Law, Communication, and Culture – York University. Tier One Chair (highest level position in Canada awarded by the federal government to “experienced individuals acknowledged by their peers as world leaders in their research fields.” Department of Social Science and Department of Anthropology in the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies. Appointed to second term, 2008. Appointed to third term, 2015.
2013-5 Adjunct Professor II, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Department of Social Anthropology (appointed “to raise the theoretical level of ambition and increase the publication activities of the Department”).
2012 Visiting Fellow, Stanford University Centre for Archaeology and Human Rights.
2009-12 Inaugural Faculty Convenor and continuing Faculty Workshop Leader, Culture, Rights, Identity: Interfaces between the Humanities and the Law; Convergences: Law, Language and Culture, Synergies: Law, Language and Culture; Correlations: Law and Culture, International Summer School, Osnabruck University, Germany.
2011 Academic Fellow, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, South Africa.
2009 Visiting Scholar, “The Constituting of Cultural Property: Actors, Discourses, Contexts, Rules.” Research Group funded by the Deutsche Forschengsgemeinschaft, Institut für Kulturanthropologie, Georg-August-Universitat, Gottingen, Germany.
2008 Visiting Scholar, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
Visiting Research Scholar, The Philosophy, Ethics and Social Theory Research Group, Wellington University, New Zealand.
2006 Wiarda Chair, Utrecht University, Netherlands.
2003-4 William Lyon Mackenzie King Chair of Canadian Studies – Harvard University, Department of Anthropology and Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.
2002-3 Visiting Scholar – Comparative Media Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
1999-2000 Full Professor of Law -- Faculty of Law, University of Toronto.
1993-9 Associate Professor of Law -- Faculty of Law, University of Toronto.
1995-6 Visiting Professor, University of Chicago Humanities Institute.
Research Affiliate, American Bar Foundation.
1993 Weatherhead Resident Scholar -- School of American Research, Santa Fe, NM.
1990 Karl Loewenstein Fellowship in Political Science and Jurisprudence -- Amherst College, Massachusetts.
1988-93 Assistant Professor of Law -- University of Toronto.
Community Contributions
2019-20 Board of Directors, Society for Cultural Property (publishers of the International Journal of Cultural Property).
2016-18 Academic Board -- Argumentos. Estudios Transdisciplinares en Culturas Juridicas y Administracin de justicia (Arguments: Trans-disciplinary studies in legal cultures and administration of justice).
2012-21 Editorial Board – Stanford Studies in Human Rights series, Stanford University Press.
2010 -19 Editorial Board – Gottingen Studies in Cultural Property series, University of Gottingen Press.
2008-2022 Editorial Board – Political and Legal Anthropology Review (four terms).
2010-2 Editorial Board – American Anthropologist.
2008-12 Editorial Board – Lateral (Journal of the Cultural Studies Association).
Editorial Board – Copyright Journal, an online peer-reviewed journal.
2003-5 Advisory Board – Intellectual Property Rights and Archaeology Collaborative Research Proposal (National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research Program).
1995-8 Editorial Advisory Board -- Law & Society Review, Journal of Sport & Social Issues
1992-7 Board of Directors -- Association for Political & Legal Anthropology (two terms)
1994-8 Associate Editor -- POLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review
1993-6 Board of Trustees -- Law & Society Association
Research Interests
- Indigenous Comparative Approaches to Culture Based Tourism in Canada and Ecuador. SSHRC Connections Grant. Co-investigator. - 2017-9
- Archive/Counter-Archive: Activating Canada’s Moving Image Heritage. SSHRC Partnership Grant Notice of Intent Award. Co-investigator. - 2017
- Canada Foundation for Innovation Infrastructure Operating Funds Grant. - 2017
- See More…, Know More? Do More! Shaping and Sharing Canada’s Digital Media Heritage. Canadian Media Research Consortium. PI. - 2016
- Swidden Agriculture, Traditional Knowledge, and Biocultural Rights. Prospects for Marks Indicating Conditions of Origin in the Seven Sister States. Norwegian University of Science and Technology subgrant pursuant to The Cultural Logic of Facts and Figures grant. PI. - 2016
- Biocultural Diversity and Indigenous Governance in the Americas: A Case Study from Peru. Norwegian University of Science and Technology subgrant pursuant to The Cultural Logic of Facts and Figures grant. PI. - 2013
- The Cultural Logic of Facts and Figures: Objectification, Measurement and Standardization as Social Processes. Norwegian Research Council. Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Co-investigator. - 2012-5
- Vernacular, Customary and Conventional Laws for Protecting Cultural Heritage; Fragmentation or Pluralism in the Multiversity? PI and Conference Organizer. - 2012
- Dynamic Fair Dealing: Creating Canadian Culture Online. Canadian Federation for Humanities and Social Sciences Award for Scholarly Publications - 2012
- Canada Foundation for Innovation Operating Funds grant. - 2010-2
- The Politics of Scale: Mapping the Transnational Policy Field of Cultural Rights. SSHRC General Research Grant. PI. - 2010-3
- Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage: Culture, Theory, Practice, Policy, Ethics (IPinCH). SSHRC Multiple Collaborator Research Initiative ($2,500,000). Co-investigator. Winner of the SSHRC IMPACT Award, 2016. - 2008-15
- SSHRC Conference Grant. Taking Back the Streets: Global Carnival Cultures. Co-investigator. - 2008
- New Media Collaboration Centre: Canadian Arts Content Management Centre and Centre for Digital Policy and Cultural Rights Initiative. Canadian Foundation for Infrastructure Grant. Co-investigator. - 2007-10
- SSHRC Image Text Sound Technology Networking Grant. Creating an Ethos of Fair Dealing in Canadian Cultural Content Online. PI. - 2006-8
(with Sarah Ives and Daniel Huizenga). In Matthew David & Deborah Halbert eds., Sage Handbook on Intellectual Property (Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications), 207-223.
Reprinted in “Intellectual Property and Social Justice” Symposium Issue. University of California-Davis Law Review 40(3): 891-917 (2007).
Reprinted in V. V. Ramani and A. V. Bala Krishana, eds., Cultural Industries: Perspectives and Experiences (Hyderabad: ICfai University Press, 2008) 45-64.
• Reprinted in D. Goldberg, M. Musheno and L. Bower, eds., Between Law and Culture: Relocating Legal Studies (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001) 22-49.
• Translated and reprinted as “Der zunehmende Geltungsbereich von Cultural Properties und ihrer Politik.” In: R. Bendix, K. Bizer, S. Groth, eds. Die Konstituierung von Cultural Property: Forschungsperspektiven. University of Göttingen Press, 2010
• Reprinted in Pramod K. Nayar, ed., The New Media and Cybercultures Reader (Wiley Blackwell, 2010) 441-464.
Reprinted in Eve Darien-Smith, ed., Ethnography and Law (a volume in the International Library of Essays in Law and Society, Aldershott: Ashgate Publishing, 2007) 95-115.
• Reprinted in William Gallagher, ed., Intellectual Property (a volume in the International Library of Essays in Law and Society, Aldershott: Ashgate Publishing, 2007) 479-518.
• Reprinted in William T. Gallagher, ed., Intellectual Property (a volume in the International Library of Essays in Law and Society, Aldershott: Ashgate Publishing, 2007) 579-608.
• Reprinted in POLAR: Political & Legal Anthropology Review 19(1): 105-116 (1996).
• Reprinted in Alexandra George, ed., Globalisation and Intellectual Property (a volume in the International Library of Essays on Globalization and Law Series. Aldershott: Ashgate Publishing, 2006) 590-610.
• Abbreviated version reprinted in Nicholas Blomley, David Delaney, and Richard T. Ford, eds., The Legal Geographies Reader (Oxford and Malden, MA: Basil Blackwell, 2001) 298-318.
• Reprinted in The Public Sphere Collective, ed., The Black Public Sphere (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995) 253-278.
• Reprinted in P. Drahos, ed., Intellectual Property a volume in the International Library of Essays in Legal Thought and Legal Theory series (Aldershot: Dartmouth Publishing, 1999) 171-180.
• Reprinted in Elspeth Cameron ed., Multiculturalism & Immigration in Canada: An Introductory Reader (Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press, 2004) 133-158.
• Abbreviated version reprinted in Karen Engle and Dan Danielson, eds., After Identity: A Reader in Law and Culture (New York: Routledge, 1995) 251-272.
• Another abbreviation reprinted in Bruce Ziff, ed., Borrowed Power: Issues of Cultural Appropriation (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1997) 75-96.
• Abbreviated in Patty Girstenblith ed., Art, Cultural Heritage and the Law (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2004) 541-545 and in the Second Edition (2008) 596-99.
• Reprinted in Martha Woodmansee and Peter Jaszi, eds., The Construction of Authorship: Textual Appropriations in Law and Literature (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1994) 101 - 131.
• Reprinted in Peter Yu, ed., The Marketplace of Ideas: Twenty Years of the Cardozo Arts and Entertainment Law Journal (New York: Kluwer International, 2002) 236-266.
• Reprinted in W. Gallagher, ed., Intellectual Property (a volume in the International Library of Essays in Law and Society, Ashgate 2007) 519-550.
• Reprinted in Toby Miller, ed., The Contemporary Hollywood Reader (Routledge 2009) 453-471.
• Reprinted in Dennis Patterson ed., Postmodernism and Law, in The International Library of Essays in Legal Theory (Dartmouth, 1993) 275-302.
• Reprinted in Alan Freeman and Elizabeth Mensch, eds., Essays in Property. Volume II (Dartmouth, 1992) 415-442.
• Abbreviated for inclusion in M. La France, G. Myers, and D. Lange, eds., Intellectual Property (West Publishing, 1997).
Rosemary’s current work explores and problematizes the politics and social implications of cultural property laws, heritage, biocultural rights, food sovereignty, and agroecology, delineating how each intersects with neoliberalism, informational capital, and human rights, particularly in specific contemporary Latin American and Southeast Asian contexts.
Rosemary J. Coombe is a Tier One Canada Research Chair in Law, Communication and Culture (2001-2022) at York University in Toronto, where she teaches in the Department of Anthropology, the York and Ryerson Joint Graduate Program in Communication and Culture, and the Graduate Program in Socio-Legal Studies. Prior to being awarded one of the country’s first Canada Research Chairs, she was Full Professor of Law at the University of Toronto.
Published widely in the fields of legal anthropology, cultural studies, and sociolegal studies, Rosemary holds a Doctorate of Science of Law (J.S.D.) from Stanford University, with a Minor in Anthropology, has published over thirty referred book chapters and over forty referred journal articles, and has delivered over two hundred and thirty conference lectures and papers. She has held research fellowships at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, Utrecht and Gottingen Universities, and the American Bar Foundation and visitorships at the Universities of Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Iowa, American, De Paul, and Chicago. In spring 2018 she was the Visiting Professor at the Universidad de Los Andes in Bogota, Colombia and the T.C. Bierne Visiting Fellow at the University of Queensland Law School in Australia.
Exploring the cultural, political, and social implications of intellectual property law, Rosemary’s current work explores and problematizes the politics of cultural property, heritage, biocultural rights, food sovereignty, and agroecology, delineating how each intersects with neoliberalism, informational capital and human rights, particularly in contemporary Andean Community and Southeast Asian contexts. Her larger project titled The Work of Culture in the Era of Informational Capital: Global Intellectual Property and Its Publics, explores how indigenist movements and NGOs increasingly mobilize culture as a resource by articulating and transforming international legal and policy norms locally and in transnational contexts. The volume explores how intellectual property rhetoric and legal vehicles combined with rights practices are used to protect cultural diversity, traditional knowledge, and cultural heritage. How and why has the advent of the information economy revitalized contemporary cultural claims, and to what extent can appeals for the protection of traditions serve progressive ends?
Her first book was a legal ethnography The Cultural Life of Intellectual Properties: Authorship, Appropriation, and the Law (Duke University Press, published in 1998 and reprinted in 2008), exploring the different ways in which intellectual property law shapes cultural politics in consumer societies. It received a Law and Society Association Herbert Jacob Award Honorable Mention (second prize) for best new book in law and society scholarship in June 2000. In 2014 Rosemary co-edited with Darren Wershler and Martin Zeilinger the University of Toronto Press volume, Dynamic Fair Dealing: Creating Canadian Culture Online, whose over two dozen contributions, authored by scholars, practitioners and artists working in varied disciplines and genres, clarify the intersections between Canadian copyright law, digital technologies and practices of dynamic fair dealing, emphasizing emergent approaches to creating, circulating and managing digital cultural objects that challenge or present alternatives to traditional intellectual property and cultural policy paradigms.
Degrees
J.S.D./Ph.D. (Doctor of the Science of Law/Minor in Anthropology), Stanford UniversityJ.S.M. (Master of the Science of Law), Stanford University
LL.B. (With Great Distinction) Highest standing in graduating class, University of Western Ontario
B.A. (Honors) Anthropology/Political Science, University of Western Ontario
Appointments
Faculty of Graduate StudiesProfessional Leadership
2001-2022 Canada Research Chair in Law, Communication, and Culture – York University. Tier One Chair (highest level position in Canada awarded by the federal government to “experienced individuals acknowledged by their peers as world leaders in their research fields.” Department of Social Science and Department of Anthropology in the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies. Appointed to second term, 2008. Appointed to third term, 2015.
2013-5 Adjunct Professor II, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Department of Social Anthropology (appointed “to raise the theoretical level of ambition and increase the publication activities of the Department”).
2012 Visiting Fellow, Stanford University Centre for Archaeology and Human Rights.
2009-12 Inaugural Faculty Convenor and continuing Faculty Workshop Leader, Culture, Rights, Identity: Interfaces between the Humanities and the Law; Convergences: Law, Language and Culture, Synergies: Law, Language and Culture; Correlations: Law and Culture, International Summer School, Osnabruck University, Germany.
2011 Academic Fellow, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, South Africa.
2009 Visiting Scholar, “The Constituting of Cultural Property: Actors, Discourses, Contexts, Rules.” Research Group funded by the Deutsche Forschengsgemeinschaft, Institut für Kulturanthropologie, Georg-August-Universitat, Gottingen, Germany.
2008 Visiting Scholar, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
Visiting Research Scholar, The Philosophy, Ethics and Social Theory Research Group, Wellington University, New Zealand.
2006 Wiarda Chair, Utrecht University, Netherlands.
2003-4 William Lyon Mackenzie King Chair of Canadian Studies – Harvard University, Department of Anthropology and Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.
2002-3 Visiting Scholar – Comparative Media Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
1999-2000 Full Professor of Law -- Faculty of Law, University of Toronto.
1993-9 Associate Professor of Law -- Faculty of Law, University of Toronto.
1995-6 Visiting Professor, University of Chicago Humanities Institute.
Research Affiliate, American Bar Foundation.
1993 Weatherhead Resident Scholar -- School of American Research, Santa Fe, NM.
1990 Karl Loewenstein Fellowship in Political Science and Jurisprudence -- Amherst College, Massachusetts.
1988-93 Assistant Professor of Law -- University of Toronto.
Community Contributions
2019-20 Board of Directors, Society for Cultural Property (publishers of the International Journal of Cultural Property).
2016-18 Academic Board -- Argumentos. Estudios Transdisciplinares en Culturas Juridicas y Administracin de justicia (Arguments: Trans-disciplinary studies in legal cultures and administration of justice).
2012-21 Editorial Board – Stanford Studies in Human Rights series, Stanford University Press.
2010 -19 Editorial Board – Gottingen Studies in Cultural Property series, University of Gottingen Press.
2008-2022 Editorial Board – Political and Legal Anthropology Review (four terms).
2010-2 Editorial Board – American Anthropologist.
2008-12 Editorial Board – Lateral (Journal of the Cultural Studies Association).
Editorial Board – Copyright Journal, an online peer-reviewed journal.
2003-5 Advisory Board – Intellectual Property Rights and Archaeology Collaborative Research Proposal (National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research Program).
1995-8 Editorial Advisory Board -- Law & Society Review, Journal of Sport & Social Issues
1992-7 Board of Directors -- Association for Political & Legal Anthropology (two terms)
1994-8 Associate Editor -- POLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review
1993-6 Board of Trustees -- Law & Society Association
Research Interests
Awards
- Indigenous Comparative Approaches to Culture Based Tourism in Canada and Ecuador. SSHRC Connections Grant. Co-investigator. - 2017-9
- Archive/Counter-Archive: Activating Canada’s Moving Image Heritage. SSHRC Partnership Grant Notice of Intent Award. Co-investigator. - 2017
- Canada Foundation for Innovation Infrastructure Operating Funds Grant. - 2017
- See More…, Know More? Do More! Shaping and Sharing Canada’s Digital Media Heritage. Canadian Media Research Consortium. PI. - 2016
- Swidden Agriculture, Traditional Knowledge, and Biocultural Rights. Prospects for Marks Indicating Conditions of Origin in the Seven Sister States. Norwegian University of Science and Technology subgrant pursuant to The Cultural Logic of Facts and Figures grant. PI. - 2016
- Biocultural Diversity and Indigenous Governance in the Americas: A Case Study from Peru. Norwegian University of Science and Technology subgrant pursuant to The Cultural Logic of Facts and Figures grant. PI. - 2013
- The Cultural Logic of Facts and Figures: Objectification, Measurement and Standardization as Social Processes. Norwegian Research Council. Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Co-investigator. - 2012-5
- Vernacular, Customary and Conventional Laws for Protecting Cultural Heritage; Fragmentation or Pluralism in the Multiversity? PI and Conference Organizer. - 2012
- Dynamic Fair Dealing: Creating Canadian Culture Online. Canadian Federation for Humanities and Social Sciences Award for Scholarly Publications - 2012
- Canada Foundation for Innovation Operating Funds grant. - 2010-2
- The Politics of Scale: Mapping the Transnational Policy Field of Cultural Rights. SSHRC General Research Grant. PI. - 2010-3
- Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage: Culture, Theory, Practice, Policy, Ethics (IPinCH). SSHRC Multiple Collaborator Research Initiative ($2,500,000). Co-investigator. Winner of the SSHRC IMPACT Award, 2016. - 2008-15
- SSHRC Conference Grant. Taking Back the Streets: Global Carnival Cultures. Co-investigator. - 2008
- New Media Collaboration Centre: Canadian Arts Content Management Centre and Centre for Digital Policy and Cultural Rights Initiative. Canadian Foundation for Infrastructure Grant. Co-investigator. - 2007-10
- SSHRC Image Text Sound Technology Networking Grant. Creating an Ethos of Fair Dealing in Canadian Cultural Content Online. PI. - 2006-8
All Publications
(with Sarah Ives and Daniel Huizenga). In Matthew David & Deborah Halbert eds., Sage Handbook on Intellectual Property (Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications), 207-223.
Reprinted in “Intellectual Property and Social Justice” Symposium Issue. University of California-Davis Law Review 40(3): 891-917 (2007).
Reprinted in V. V. Ramani and A. V. Bala Krishana, eds., Cultural Industries: Perspectives and Experiences (Hyderabad: ICfai University Press, 2008) 45-64.
• Reprinted in D. Goldberg, M. Musheno and L. Bower, eds., Between Law and Culture: Relocating Legal Studies (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001) 22-49.
• Translated and reprinted as “Der zunehmende Geltungsbereich von Cultural Properties und ihrer Politik.” In: R. Bendix, K. Bizer, S. Groth, eds. Die Konstituierung von Cultural Property: Forschungsperspektiven. University of Göttingen Press, 2010
• Reprinted in Pramod K. Nayar, ed., The New Media and Cybercultures Reader (Wiley Blackwell, 2010) 441-464.
Reprinted in Eve Darien-Smith, ed., Ethnography and Law (a volume in the International Library of Essays in Law and Society, Aldershott: Ashgate Publishing, 2007) 95-115.
• Reprinted in William Gallagher, ed., Intellectual Property (a volume in the International Library of Essays in Law and Society, Aldershott: Ashgate Publishing, 2007) 479-518.
• Reprinted in William T. Gallagher, ed., Intellectual Property (a volume in the International Library of Essays in Law and Society, Aldershott: Ashgate Publishing, 2007) 579-608.
• Reprinted in POLAR: Political & Legal Anthropology Review 19(1): 105-116 (1996).
• Reprinted in Alexandra George, ed., Globalisation and Intellectual Property (a volume in the International Library of Essays on Globalization and Law Series. Aldershott: Ashgate Publishing, 2006) 590-610.
• Abbreviated version reprinted in Nicholas Blomley, David Delaney, and Richard T. Ford, eds., The Legal Geographies Reader (Oxford and Malden, MA: Basil Blackwell, 2001) 298-318.
• Reprinted in The Public Sphere Collective, ed., The Black Public Sphere (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995) 253-278.
• Reprinted in P. Drahos, ed., Intellectual Property a volume in the International Library of Essays in Legal Thought and Legal Theory series (Aldershot: Dartmouth Publishing, 1999) 171-180.
• Reprinted in Elspeth Cameron ed., Multiculturalism & Immigration in Canada: An Introductory Reader (Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press, 2004) 133-158.
• Abbreviated version reprinted in Karen Engle and Dan Danielson, eds., After Identity: A Reader in Law and Culture (New York: Routledge, 1995) 251-272.
• Another abbreviation reprinted in Bruce Ziff, ed., Borrowed Power: Issues of Cultural Appropriation (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1997) 75-96.
• Abbreviated in Patty Girstenblith ed., Art, Cultural Heritage and the Law (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2004) 541-545 and in the Second Edition (2008) 596-99.
• Reprinted in Martha Woodmansee and Peter Jaszi, eds., The Construction of Authorship: Textual Appropriations in Law and Literature (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1994) 101 - 131.
• Reprinted in Peter Yu, ed., The Marketplace of Ideas: Twenty Years of the Cardozo Arts and Entertainment Law Journal (New York: Kluwer International, 2002) 236-266.
• Reprinted in W. Gallagher, ed., Intellectual Property (a volume in the International Library of Essays in Law and Society, Ashgate 2007) 519-550.
• Reprinted in Toby Miller, ed., The Contemporary Hollywood Reader (Routledge 2009) 453-471.
• Reprinted in Dennis Patterson ed., Postmodernism and Law, in The International Library of Essays in Legal Theory (Dartmouth, 1993) 275-302.
• Reprinted in Alan Freeman and Elizabeth Mensch, eds., Essays in Property. Volume II (Dartmouth, 1992) 415-442.
• Abbreviated for inclusion in M. La France, G. Myers, and D. Lange, eds., Intellectual Property (West Publishing, 1997).
