Kara W. Swanson

Northeastern University

Associate Professor of Law
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Expertise

Intellectual Property Law
History of Science
History of Medicine and Technology
History of the Law

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Articles

Food and Drug Law as Intellectual Property Law: Historical Reflections, Wisc. L. Rev. (2011)

Getting a Grip on the Corset: Gender, Sexuality and Patent Law, Yale J. L. & Feminism (2011)

The Emergence of the Professional Patent Practitioner, Technology and Culture (2009)

Human Milk as Technology and Technologies of Human Milk: Medical Imaginings in the Early 20th Century United States, Women’s Studies Quarterly (2009)

Biotech in Court: A Legal Lesson on the Unity of Science, Social Studies of Science (2007)

This paper examines the American legal system’s reliance upon the unity of science through a...

Contributions to Books

Authoring an Invention: Nineteenth-Century American Law and Patent Authorship, Contexts of Invention: Creative Production in Legal and Cultural Perspective (forthcoming) (2011)

Other

Review of Catherine Fisk, Working Knowledge: Employee Innovation and the Rise of Corporate Intellectual Property (2009), IP Law Book Review (2010)