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Research Interest(s): Theories of property, Law in the Anthropocene, Intellectual property, Brands and trade marks, Social theories of law, Law and anthropology
Discipline(s): Law
Biography
Before joining the Law School at Sciences Po, Alain Pottage was Professor of Law at the London School of Economics.
He has held visiting positions at Cornell Law School, EHESS, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Griffith Law School, Harvard, and the University of Sydney.
His research focuses on questions in the history and theory of intellectual property, and on the question of law in the Anthropocene.
publications
- Alain Pottage, Mario Biagioli. What Is a Book? Kant and the Law of the Letter. Critical Inquiry, 2023, 49 (4), pp.605-625. ⟨10.1086/725060⟩. ⟨hal-04282806⟩
- Mario Biagioli, Alain Pottage. Dark Transparency: Hyper-Ethics at Trump’s EPA. Blog//Los Angeles Review of Books, 2022. ⟨hal-03982698⟩
- Mario Biagioli, Alain Pottage. Patenting Personalized Medicine. Osiris, 2021, 36, pp.221-240. ⟨10.1086/713991⟩. ⟨hal-03982754⟩
- Alain Pottage. Afterword – A Knowledge Apart. Thanos Zartaloudis. Legal Artifices: Ten Essays on Roman Law in the Present Tense, Edinburgh University Press, pp.299-316, 2021, 9781474446693. ⟨hal-03982727⟩
- Alain Pottage, Yannick Ganne. Le droit d’après l’anthropologie : objet et technique en droit romain. Clio@Thémis : Revue électronique d'histoire du droit, 2020, 19, https://journals.openedition.org/cliothemis/218. ⟨10.35562/cliothemis.218⟩. ⟨hal-03798488⟩
- Alain Pottage. An Apocalyptic Patent. Law and Critique, 2020, 31 (3), pp.239-252. ⟨10.1007/s10978-020-09278-4⟩. ⟨hal-03982789⟩
- Alain Pottage. Finding Melanesia in Ancient Rome: Mauss’ Anthropology of nexum. Roman Law before the Twelve Tables, Edinburgh University Press, pp.171-198, 2020, 9781474443975. ⟨10.3366/edinburgh/9781474443968.003.0011⟩. ⟨hal-03982824⟩
- Alain Pottage. Holocene jurisprudence. Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, 2019, 10 (2), pp.153-175. ⟨10.4337/jhre.2019.02.01⟩. ⟨hal-04285190⟩