User:Nskinsella

Bookmarks

 * Stephan Kinsella
 * KinsellaLaw, Stephan Kinsella's legal website
 * StephanKinsella.com, Stephan Kinsella's libertarian website
 * Kevin Rose gives in on the HD-DVD encryption key fiasco -- the controversy was over whether web sites may display the HD-DVD key

Contributions
Contributions: in no particular order

All contributions

Articles started:


 * Stephan Kinsella (the second time--User:DickClarkMises started it the first time)
 * Kinsella
 * discourse ethics
 * Rosalyn Higgins
 * Paul M. Hebert Law Center
 * Paul M. Hebert
 * Roger Pilon
 * Rosalyn Higgins
 * South Texas College of Law
 * Wikinerds (keeps being deleted)
 * Wikinerd (keeps being deleted)

Articles contributed to:


 * Alan Gewirth
 * Intellectual Property
 * Anarcho-capitalism
 * Lew Rockwell
 * Southern Poverty Law Center
 * Ludwig von Mises Institute
 * Libertarian theories of law
 * Hans-Hermann Hoppe

NOTES ABOUT CAMPAIGN TO DELETE MY ENTRY

 * Talk:Stephan_Kinsella (defense of Stephan Kinsella biography per biography policy
 * biography policy
 * Votes_for_deletion/Stephan_Kinsella_2
 * Votes_for_deletion/Stephan_Kinsella
 * THIRD attempt to delete my page--wow. In March 2007. Is this some kind of record? Alas, this one failed too. I wonder where User:Willmcw was?

If my entry Stephan Kinsella has again been deleted, anyone who thinks it ought to be there is urged to put the following entry back up. Summary of what happened: Several months ago Dick Clark (who I do not know) put my entry up. User:Willmcw got it deleted, on vanity and non-notable grounds. I did not fight it, as I did not really care, and did not know what the critieria for "notability" were anyway.

A week or so ago, when observing the deletion process on another entry, I found the biography policy. As noted here, under these policy, it seems pretty clear that my entry is permissible, and never should have been deleted in the first place. So I put up an entry, expecting the criteria to be fairly applied. Willmcw and others voted to delete my entry again; as of this writing, it looks like it may be deleted. But none of them even made an effort to apply the actual Wiki policy.

And as I noted [User_talk:Edcolins#Kinsella|here]:


 * Understandable, and advice well taken and appreciated. But I am a justice seeker. I really don't care as much if my entry is deleted or not, as for whether I fight to vindicate my unfair treatment (as I perceive it). Here I was, many moon ago, minding my own damn business, and someone tells me I have a Wiki entry. Interesting. Then someone says it's up for delete. What do I care. I really don't give a damn. But some jerk says it's non-notable (okay by me--I didn't konw Wiki policies on this at the time anyway); and vanity. Implying I did it, as self-promotion. This pissed me off. I rebutted the latter charge and did not even mention the notable charge. Later, many months later, someone tells me he has initiated VfD for Palmer's site. Now this was right after the Wiki entries of some CLEARLY notable friends of mine were vandalized--Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Lew Rockwell with ridiculous charges of racism etc., of the same type made by Palmer. So I figure, let's take a look at his entry. I did so, and in the ensuing VfD debate, realize there are actual policies on this; I studied them and thought, "son of a bitch. I qualify. By their own policies. These wikinerds should not have deleted me. And to top it off, the same one who voted to delete me is voting to keep Palmer. Something ain't right." So, instead of dishonestly putting up my entry anonymously or through a meatpuppet, I did it myself, nothing hidden. And instead of rolling over and playing dead as I did last time, I decided this time, I will make noise and make sure that if I have anything ot say about it, the voters will be made aware of the policies. That is all. If a fair evaluation of my site and aplication of the policies leads to a good faith vote to delete my entry, I don't care. But what do I see? Peopel who vote to keep Palmer up on the grounds that he is openly gay, or has a large number of publications, or has 13000 google hits, voting to delete me, even though I have similar criteria. It makes it seem arbitrary to me. So can you blame me for monitoring this a little bit, and being a bit frustrated at the seemingly arbitrary actions of some people? Nom.

Norman (N.) Stephan Kinsella (born 1965) is an American intellectual property lawyer and libertarian legal theorist.



Biography
Born in Prairieville, Louisiana, he attended Louisiana State University where he earned Master of Science (MS) and Bachelor of Science (BS) degrees in electrical engineering, and a Juris Doctor (JD) from the Paul M. Hebert Law Center ; and obtained an LL.M. at the University of London, where he attended King's College London and the London School of Economics.

A practicing lawyer and former adjunct professor of law at South Texas College of Law, Kinsella is actively involved with libertarian legal and political theory, and is adjunct sholar of the Mises Institute.

Legal publications include books and articles about patent law, contract law, e-commerce law, international law and other topics.

Kinsella has also published and lectured on a variety of libertarian topics, often combining libertarian and legal analysis. Kinsella's views on contract theory, causation and the law, intellectual property, and rights theory (in particular his estoppel theory) are his main contributions to libertarian theory.

In contract theory, he extends Murray Rothbard's and Williamson Evers's  "title transfer" theory of contract, linking it with inalienabiltiy theory while also clarifying that theory ("A Libertarian Theory of Contract: Binding Promises, Title Transfer, and Inalienability" ). Kinsella sets forth a theory of causation that attempts to explain why remote actors can be liable under libertarian theory ("Causation and Aggression" ). Kinsella, as a practicing intellectual property attorney, also gives non-utilitarian arguments for intellectual property being incompatible with libertarian property rights principles ("Against Intellectual Property" ). Kinsella advances a "discourse ethics" argument for the justification of individual rights, using an extension of the concept of estoppel (A Libertarian Theory of Punishment and Rights).