William M. Landes is an Emeritus Professor of Law and Economics and a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School. He has written extensively on applying economic and quantitative methods to law and legal institutions, covering torts, intellectual property, and art law. His work explores how economic analysis illuminates legal doctrines within areas such as copyright and patent law. Landes's approach demonstrates how economic principles can be utilized to understand and reform the legal system.
This book takes a fresh look at the most dynamic area of American law today, comprising the fields of copyright, patent, trademark, trade secrecy, publicity rights, and misappropriation. It demonstrates the fundamental economic rationality of intellectual property law, but is sympathetic to critics who believe that IP rights have gone too far.
268 pages. Economics & Sociology