Oren Bracha
- William C. Conner Chair in Law
- Professor
Oren Bracha is a legal historian and an intellectual property law scholar whose fields of interest include intellectual property, cyberlaw, legal history and legal theory. Professor Bracha has taught courses on intellectual property, contracts, and copyright, and also directed the Equality Seminar.
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United States Copyright, 1672-1909
Oren Bracha is a legal historian and an intellectual property law scholar. His dissertation "Owning Ideas" is a comprehensive intellectual history of Anglo-American intellectual property law. Bracha was a law clerk for Chief Justice Aharon Barak of the Supreme Court of Israel. Prior to coming to UT he worked on several teaching and research projects for the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. His fields of interest include intellectual property, cyberlaw, legal history and legal theory.
Prof. Bracha’s newest book, Owning Ideas: The Intellectual Origins of American Intellectual Property, 1790-1909, now available from Cambridge University Press, explores the history of the emergence of intellectual property in the United States during the nineteenth century, examining the fields of both patent and copyright. It has been hailed as “a superb study of the transformation of American copyright and patent doctrine in the nineteenth century.... deeply researched, finely nuanced, and lucidly presented."
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year-2008
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Article
The Ideology of Authorship Revisited: Authors, Markets, and Liberal Values in Early American Copyright
Oren Bracha, The Ideology of Authorship Revisited: Authors, Markets, and Liberal Values in Early American Copyright, 118 Yale Law Journal 186 (2008).
year-2007
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Standing Copyright Law on Its Head? The Googlization of Everything and the Many Faces of Property [Symposium: Frontiers of Intellectual Property]
Oren Bracha, Standing Copyright Law on Its Head? The Googlization of Everything and the Many Faces of Property [Symposium: Frontiers of Intellectual Property], 85 Texas Law Review 1799 (2007). -
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Standing Copyright Law on Its Head? The Googlization of Everything and the Many Faces of Property
Oren Bracha, Standing Copyright Law on Its Head? The Googlization of Everything and the Many Faces of Property [Symposium: Frontiers of Intellectual Property], 85 Texas Law Review 1799 (2007)
year-2005
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Other Publication
Owning Ideas: A History of Anglo-American Intellectual Property
Oren Bracha, Owning Ideas: A History of Anglo-American Intellectual Property (S.J.D. Dissertation, Harvard Law School, 2005) https://law.utexas.edu/faculty/obracha/dissertation/
year-2004
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The Commodification of Patents 1600-1836: How Patents Became Rights and Why We Should Care
Oren Bracha, The Commodification of Patents 1600-1836: How Patents Became Rights and Why We Should Care [Symposium: Intellectual Property at a Crossroads], 38 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 177 (2004)
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The Commodification of Patents 1600-1836: How Patents Became Rights and Why We Should Care [Symposium: Intellectual Property at a Crossroads]
Oren Bracha, The Commodification of Patents 1600-1836: How Patents Became Rights and Why We Should Care [Symposium: Intellectual Property at a Crossroads], 38 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 177 (2004).
year-2000
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Other Publication
Individuals and Governments: American Corporate Theory in the Twentieth Century
Oren Bracha. “Individuals and Governments: American Corporate Theory in the Twentieth Century.” (LL.M. Thesis, Harvard Law School, 2000).
year-1998
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Article
Unfortunate or Perilous: The Infiltrators, the Law and the Supreme Court 1948-1954
Oren Bracha, Unfortunate or Perilous: The Infiltrators, the Law and the Supreme Court 1948-1954, 21 Tel-Aviv University Law Review ['Iyune mishpat] 333 (1998) [in Hebrew].