Panel 1: Legal Histories of Innovation

Commentator:

• Lisa Larrimore Ouellette, Associate Professor of Law and Justin M. Roach, Jr. Faculty Scholar, Stanford Law School

 

Panelists:

• Haris A. Durrani, J.D./Ph.D. candidate at Columbia Law School and Princeton University (History of Science), Winner of the 2020 Stanford Center for Law and History Graduate Student Annual Conference Paper Prize
  “Orchestra[ting]” Free Space: How American Lawyers Realized Extraterritorial Largess for a Cold War Welfare State, 1959–1966

• Aileen Robinson, Assistant Professor, Theater and Performance Studies, Stanford
  Possessing Illusions: Ownership and the Patent in 19th Century Performance Magic

• Kara W. Swanson, Professor of Law and Affiliate Professor of History, Northeastern University
  Race, Gender, Appropriation, and Early US Patent System

• Steven Wilf, Anthony J. Smits Professor of Global Commerce, University of Connecticut School of Law
  The Family Romance of the 1870 Intellectual Property Act