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40 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 563 (2006-2007)
Is Nozick Kicking Rawls's Ass - Intellectual Property and Social Justice

handle is hein.journals/davlr40 and id is 571 raw text is: FOREWORD Is Nozick Kicking Rawls's Ass? Intellectual Property and Social Justice Anupam Chander* & Madhavi Sunder* TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION .......... ............. .........................563 I. ARGUMENTS ABOUT INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND SOCIAL JU ST IC E .......................................................................................... 5 6 7 A. Intellectual Property and Distributive Justice .......................... 568 B. Intellectual Property and Human Rights ................................. 571 C. Copyrights, Creativity, and Catalogs ...................................... 572 II. WHY CONSIDER SOCIALJUSTICE WITHIN INTELLECTUAL P RO PERTY? ..................................................................................... 5 73 A. The Case for a Broader View of Intellectual Property Values ..574 B. Critiques of the Social Justice Approach .................................. 576 C O N CLU SIO N ............................................................................................. 5 78 INTRODUCTION Nozick is kicking Rawls's ass. So proclaimed Talha Syed to a group of intellectual property scholars assembled in the small college town of Davis, California, for a conference on Intellectual Property and Social Justice in March 2006.' No one in the august group rebutted the claim. Professor, UC Davis School of Law. A.B. Harvard; J.D. Yale. Carnegie Scholar, 2006-2008; Professor, UC Davis School of Law. A.B. Harvard; J.D. Stanford. We wish to thank Dean Rex Perschbacher and Associate Dean Kevin Johnson for the enormous support that made this symposium possible. We are also grateful to the participants in the Symposium for their hard work and dedication to a productive exchange. We thank Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss and Pamela Samuelson for their important contributions to our discussions. Talha Syed, himself, does not believe that this is a happy state of affairs, as is evident from his symposium paper with Professor William Fisher, which embraces a

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