Private Law Theory

Fei-Hsien Wang, Pirates and Publishers: A Social History of Copyright in Modern China (2019). Comparative and international law scholarship places legal doctrines in context. Whether that context is helpful often depends upon one’s own disciplinary and normative commitments. Professor Fei-Hsien Wang’s Pirates and Publishers: A Social History of Copyright in Modern China challenges the view that a historic distrust of property rights undermines current efforts to import intellectual property law to the People’s Republic of China. The historical context she narrates is the main reason why this book is one I like lots. Even more pleasing is how Professor Wang’s book provides a new comparative and international context for understanding the possibilities for interdisciplinary scholarship itself … (more)

[Shubha Ghosh, JOTWELL, 15 February]

First posted 2022-02-15 13:41:06