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Biography
Rosemary Coombe was awarded one of York University's first Senior Canada Research Chairs in 2001 where she became a full professor in the Faculty of Arts (with a cross appointment to the Faculty of Law School of Graduate Studies). Before assuming the position of Canada Research Chair in Law, Communication and Cultural Studies, she was Professor of Law at the University of Toronto. She is the author of a major study of intellectual property and has written articles in legal and political theory, cultural anthropology and cultural studies. In 2002 - 2003 she is on sabbatical and is a Visiting Scholar in Comparative Media studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology as well as a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.
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Research Interest
Intellectual property, indigenous peoples, biological diversity, internet and society, citizenship, the public sphere, postcolonial theory, theories of information.
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Selected Publications
- The Cultural Life of Intellectual Properties: Authorship, Appropriation
and the Law. Duke University Press, 1998.
- 2001 "Culture Wars on the Net: Trademarks, Consumer Politics and Corporate Accountability on the World Wide Web." 100 South Atlantic Quarterly 919-947 (co-authored with Andrew Herman). Special issue "Culture and the Law" edited by Gaurav Desai.
- 2000 "Trademarks, Property, and Propriety: The Moral Economy of
Consumer Politics and Corporate Accountability on the World Wide Web." 50 De Paul Law Review 597 - 632. (co-authored with Andrew Herman). 50th Anniversary Symposium Issue on Civil Litigation and Popular Culture.
- 1999 "The Law and Late Modern Culture: Reflections on Between Facts and Norms from the Perspective of a Critical Cultural Legal Studies" (with my student Jonathan Cohen). Symposium Issue on Jurgen Habermas. 76 University of Denver Law Review 1029-1055.
- "Commodifying Culture, Constraining Expression, Emergent Powers and Alternative Articulations: Intellectual Property as a Topic of Law and Society Research" in A. Sarat, ed., Companion Guide to Law and Society (forthcoming from Basil Blackwell, 2003).
- "Works in Progress: Indigenous Knowledge, Biological Diversity and Intellectual Property in a Neoliberal Era" in B. Maurer and R.W. Perry, eds., Globalization and Governmentalities (Forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press, 2003).
- "Author/izing the Celebrity: Publicity Rights, Postmodern Politics, and
Unauthorized Genders" in The Marketplace of Ideas: Twenty Years of the Cardozo Arts and Entertainment Law Journal (Forthcoming from Kluwer International, 2002).
- "Preserving Cultural Diversity through the Preservation of Biological Diversity: Indigenous Peoples, Local Communities, and the Role of Digital Technologies" in Tony Bennett, ed., Differing Diversities: Cultural Policy and Cultural Diversity (Strasbourg: Council of Europe Publishing, 2001) pp. 169-200.
- "Is there a Cultural Studies of Law?" in T. Miller, ed., Companion Guide to Cultural Studies (Cambridge: Basil Blackwell, 2001) pp. 36-62.
- "Sports Trademarks and Somatic Politics: Locating the Law in a Critical Cultural Studies," in R. Martin & T. Miller, eds., SportCult (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press) pp. 262-288. Reprinted in D. Goldberg, M. Musheno and L. Bower, eds., Between Law and Culture: Relocating Legal Studies (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001) pp. 22-49.
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