About N. Stephan

N. Stephan Kinsella (LL.M., King’s College London; JD, Paul M. Hebert Law Center, LSU; BSEE and MSEE, LSU) is a libertarian creator and registered patent legal professional in Houston. He changed into formerly General Counsel for Applied Optoelectronics, Inc., a accomplice with Duane Morris, and adjunct law professor at South Texas College of Law.
Founder and Director of the Center of the Study of Innovative Freedom and Founder and Executive Editor of Libertarian Papers, he has spoken, lectured and published broadly on both legal subjects, such as highbrow assets law and international law, and on various regions of libertarian legal concept. His numerous publications include Legal Foundations of a Free Society (Papinian Press, Papinian Press, 2023), Against Intellectual Property (Mises Institute, 2008), A Life in Liberty: Liber Amicorum in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe (co-editor, with Jörg Guido Hülsmann, Papinian Press, 2024), Property, Freedom, and Society: Essays in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Mises Institute, 2009), and Copy This Book: The Case for Abolishing Intellectual Property (Papinian Press, impending). His legal courses consist of International Investment, Political Risk, and Dispute Resolution: A Practitioner’s Guide (second ed., Oxford University Press, 2020) and Louisiana Civil Law Dictionary (Quid Pro Books, 2011).