Kara W. Swanson

Northeastern University - School of Law

Professor of Law

416 Huntington Avenue

Boston, MA 02115

United States

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Intellectual Property and Public Health – A White Paper

Akron Intellectual Property Journal, Vol. 7, 2013
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 02 May 2013 Last Revised: 19 Jun 2014
Ryan G. Vacca, James Ming Chen, Jay Dratler, Thomas Folsom, Timothy S. Hall, Yaniv Heled, Frank A. Pasquale, Elizabeth A. Reilly, Jeffrey Samuels, Katherine J. Strandburg, Kara W. Swanson, Andrew W. Torrance and Katharine A. Van Tassel
University of New Hampshire School of Law, Michigan State University - College of Law, University of Akron - School of Law, Regent University School of Law, University of Louisville - Louis D. Brandeis School of Law, Georgia State University College of Law, Brooklyn Law School, University of Akron - School of Law, University of Akron - School of Law, New York University School of Law, Northeastern University - School of Law, University of Kansas - School of Law and Case Western Reserve University School of Law
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public health, intellectual property, TRIPS, patent, healthcare, health, big data, innovation, health care, pharmaceuticals, alternatives, Hatch-Waxman, prizes, collectively governed systems, clinical trials, black box, transparency, Obamacare, privacy, human rights

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Getting a Grip on the Corset: Gender, Sexuality and Patent Law

Yale Journal of Law and Feminism, Vol. 23, p. 57, 2011
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 10 Feb 2011 Last Revised: 03 Jan 2015
Kara W. Swanson
Northeastern University - School of Law
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patent, intellectual property, gender, sexuality, feminism, corset, technology

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Food and Drug Law as Intellectual Property Law: Historical Reflections

Wisconsin Law Review, Vol. 2011, Issue 2, pp. 331-398
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 25 Apr 2011 Last Revised: 19 Apr 2015
Kara W. Swanson
Northeastern University - School of Law
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Adultery by Doctor: Artificial Insemination, 1890–1945

Chicago-Kent Law Review, Vol. 87, No. 2, pp. 591-633, 2012
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 28 Mar 2012
Kara W. Swanson
Northeastern University - School of Law
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Race and Selective Legal Memory: Reflections on Invention of a Slave

120 Columbia Law Review 1077 (2020)
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 15 Jan 2020 Last Revised: 22 Jun 2020
Kara W. Swanson
Northeastern University - School of Law
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slavery, race, patent system, remembering

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The Corset

A History of Intellectual Property in 50 Objects, Claudy Op Den Camp and Dan Hunter, eds., Cambridge University Press (2019)
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 19 Dec 2017 Last Revised: 18 Apr 2019
Kara W. Swanson
Northeastern University - School of Law
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technology, patent law, corset

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Patents, Politics and Abortion

Intellectual Property Law in Context: Law and Society Perspectives on IP, Willliam T. Gallagher and Debora J. Halbert, eds., Forthcoming 2017
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 19 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 18 Apr 2017
Kara W. Swanson
Northeastern University - School of Law
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'Great Men,' Law, and the Social Construction of Technology

Law and Social Inquiry, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 29 Jul 2017
Kara W. Swanson
Northeastern University - School of Law
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patents, lawyers, invention

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Intellectual Property and Gender: Reflections on Accomplishments and Methodology

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law, Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 175 - 198 (2015)
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 22 Jan 2016
Kara W. Swanson
Northeastern University - School of Law
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The End of Men, Again

Boston University Law Review Annex, Vol. 93, pp. 26-36, 2013
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 23 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 22 May 2013
Kara W. Swanson
Northeastern University - School of Law
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Rethinking Body Property

Florida State University Law Review, Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 193-259 (2016)
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 08 Nov 2019
Kara W. Swanson
Northeastern University - School of Law
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body products, property, breast milk, blood, kidneys

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The Administration of Genius: Expertise and the Patent Bargain

Northeastern University School of Law Research Paper No. 373-2020
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 22 May 2020
Kara W. Swanson
Northeastern University - School of Law
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patent office, patent system, bureaucracy

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Rubbing Elbows and Blowing Smoke: Gender, Class, and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Patent Office

Isis: A Journal of the History of Science, Vol. 108, No. 1, pp. 1-22 (2017)
Posted: 18 Apr 2017
Kara W. Swanson
Northeastern University - School of Law

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USPTO, patent office, gender

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The Doctor's Dilemma: Paternalisms in the Medicolegal History of Assisted Reproduction and Abortion

Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics, Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 312-325 (2015)
Posted: 26 Aug 2015
Kara W. Swanson
Northeastern University - School of Law

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Abortion, Assisted Reproduction

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Authoring an Invention: Patent Production in the Nineteenth-Century United States

Book Chapter in "MAKING AND UNMAKING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: CREATIVE PRODUCTION IN LEGAL AND CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE," Mario Biagioli, Peter Jaszi, and Martha Woodmansee, eds., University of Chicago Press, 2011
Posted: 20 Jun 2012
Kara W. Swanson
Northeastern University - School of Law

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