Abstract:In this review essay, we probe three main elements of Laura Ford's Intellectual Property of Nations: her discussion of the structure of moral obligation and its materialization via writing and the institutions of the law; reflections on how the book intersects with questions of textual epistemology (especially the question of inferring intent from texts); and, finally, a self-consciously "presentist" discussion of how the book's findings intersect with our modern world of global legal regimes.
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