Public Rights After Oil States Energy

75 Pages Posted: 12 Feb 2019 Last revised: 18 Oct 2019

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Adam MacLeod

St. Mary's University Law School

Date Written: February 1, 2019

Abstract

The concept of public rights plays an important role in the jurisprudence of the Supreme Court of the United States. But as the decision in Oil States Energy last term revealed, the Court has often used the term to refer to three different concepts with different jurisprudential implications. Using insights drawn from historical and analytical jurisprudence, this Article distinguishes the three concepts and examines how each of them is at work in patent law. A precise reading of Oil States also bears lessons for other areas of law that implicate both private rights and duties and the administration of public, regulatory schemes.

Keywords: public rights, private rights, legal rights, common law, patents, administrative law, jurisprudence

JEL Classification: K11, K40

Suggested Citation

MacLeod, Adam, Public Rights After Oil States Energy (February 1, 2019). Notre Dame Law Review, Vol. 95, 2019, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3327002 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3327002

Adam MacLeod (Contact Author)

St. Mary's University Law School ( email )

One Camino Santa Maria St
San Antonio, TX 78228
United States

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