Logos, trademarks, national insignia, brand names, celebrity images, design patents, and
advertising texts are vibrant signs in a consumer culture governed by a regime of intellectual …

Who authorizes Thumper? I want to express the nature of my stunned disbelief when I noticed
that, in a recent law review article, Pierre Schlag cited authority for the proverb," If you can't …

… Press Coombe RJ. 2005a. L egal claims to culture in and against the market: neoli berali sm
and the global proliferation … Coombe RJ. 2007. The work of rights at governmentality's limits. …

The politics of global capital restructuring and the challenges of transnationalism have
made a contemporary cultural studies of law more pressing; political struggles for identity, …

Between March 21,1992 and April 14,1992 Canadians witnessed a remarkable proliferation
of controversy on the pages of The Globe and Mail. The issue was “cultural appropriation” …

What would it mean to recognize intellectual property rights as international human rights?
This is a speculative question because although there is a case to be made that intellectual …

Today I want to explore some of the international law-making efforts with respect to indigenous
and traditional environmental knowledge. My work over the past three years has involved …

Critical cultural heritage scholarship is thriving, as the papers in this section of the volume
clearly illustrate. They ethnographically explore the impact of fundamental changes in the …

Who authors the celebrity? Where does identity receive its authorization? I shall argue that
the law constructs and main tains fixed, stable identities authorized by the celebrity subject. In …

The critical study of cultural heritage faces crucial challenges if it is to fully attend to
fundamental shifts in the global political economy and global approaches to heritage protection. …