Bridging Race + IP: The Challenges and Potential of Utilizing Transdisciplinary Methods to Undo the Unbearable Whiteness of Intellectual Property
Intellectual Property Research, Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2020, edited by Irene Calboli and Maria Lilla Montagnani
13 Pages Posted: 13 Aug 2019 Last revised: 28 Jun 2022
Date Written: July 29, 2019
Abstract
In this unpublished manuscript, we engage the storytelling methodologies that Derrick Bell, Richard Delgado and other critical race theorists articulate as vital to speaking truth to legal power. Storytelling, for us, operates as a means of exploring the methodological contours of Critical Race Intellectual Property while also emphasizing the need for connection and play in our intellectual work. Through a snapshot of intimate conversation between friends and collaborators, we show that a critical race studies approach to studying intellectual property law can and should take many forms, that are grounded in a multitude of (sub)disciplines, including Black Feminist Studies. We encourage legal thinkers to approach intellectual property with fresh perspectives, that grounded embodied persons in their contexts instead of exclusively focusing on the doctrinal components of law.
Keywords: Critical Race Intellectual Property, Critical Race Theory, intellectual property, copyrights, trademarks, patents, storytelling, narrative, methodology
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