Kali Murray - Recent Publications and Presentations

Books (Monograph)

Kali Murray, The Politics of Patent Law: Crafting the Participatory Patent Bargain (Routledge 2012)

Books (Casebook)

Shelley Saxer, Andrea Boyack, Jamila Jefferson, and Kali Murray, Contemporary Property (6th Ed. September 2026)
Kali Murray and Rose-Cuison-Villazor, Integrating Spaces: Cases and Materials on Race and Property Law (Aspen 2023).
Alfred Brophy, Alberto Lopez, and Kali Murray, Integrating Spaces: Cases and Materials on Race and Property Law (Wolters Kluwer, November 2011)

Law Review Articles

Kali Murray, The Emancipation Constitution, Work in Progress (Submission Cycle 2027)
Kali Murray, Seeing the Dead: Marks, Meaning and the Haunting of American Trademark Law, 103 Tex. Law. Rev. 1499 (2025).
Kali Murray, Infrostructure(s): Administering Information, 71 Buff. L. Rev. 625 (2023).
Kali Murray, Trademark Law in the Time of Kulturkampf: The Poirieren Perspective, 47 Seton Hall L. Rev. 717 (2017)
Kali Murray, Constitutional Patent Law: Principles and Institutions, 93 Nebraska L. Rev. 901 (2015)
Kali Murray and Esther Van Zimmeren, Dynamic Patent Governance: The Myriad Example, 19 Cardozo J. Int’l & Comp. L. 287 (2011)
Kali Murray, First Things, First: A Principled Approach to Patent Administrative Law, 42 John Marshall Law Rev. 29 (2009)
Kali Murray, The Cooperation of Many Minds: Domestic Patent Reform in a Heterogeneous Regime, 48 IDEA 289 (2008)
Kali Murray, Rules for Radicals: A Politics of Patent Law, 14 The Journal of Intellectual Property Law 63 (Fall 2006)

Book Chapters

Kali Murray, Data’s Mirror: Reflections on Public Data and Intellectual Property, contained with Research Handbook on Trade Secrecy in Data and Data Infrastructure (Eds. Rochelle-Cooper Dreyfuss, Christoper Morten, and Katherine Strandburg Fall 2026).
Kali Murray, Justifying the Public Law of Patents, contained within Improving Intellectual Property Law (Eds. Margaret Chon, Susy Frankel, Graeme Dinwoodies, Barbara Lauriat and Jens Schovsbo 2023)
Kali Murray, The Feminist State(s) of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, contained within The Jurisprudential Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Eds. Ann Bartow and Ryan Vacca 2023).
Kali Murray and Erika George, Association of Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, 569 US 576 (2013), contained within Feminist Law Judgements: Re-Written Property Opinions (Eds. Eloisa-Rodriguez-Dod and Elana Marty-Nelson 2021)
Kali Murray, The Necessary Space of the Doctrinal Classroom, contained within Integrating Doctrine and Diversity: Inclusion and Equity in the Law School Classroom (Ed. Nicole P. Dyszlewski et. al., 2021)
Kali Murray, Serendipity and Care: Researching Social and Cultural History, contained in Researching Property Methods (Eds. Susan Bright and Sarah Blandy, Palgrave MacMillan 2016)

Essays

Kali Murray, Status, Subject and Agency in Innovation, 71 Emory Law Review Online, 38 (2023)
Kali Murray, Charles Reich’s Unruly Administrative State, The Yale Journal Forum 700 (February 27, 2020).
Kali Murray, A Welcome Conversation: Towards a New Historiography of Intellectual Property, 43(3) Law and Social Inquiry 1113 (2018)
Kali Murray, Policing in Place: A Community Development Strategy? contained in Symposium: Community Development Law and Economic Justice, 26 Journal Of Affordable Housing 69 (2017)
Kali Murray, Dispossession at the Center in the Property Law, 2 Savannah L. Rev. 201 (2015)
Kali Murray, What is Owed: Obligation’s Relevance in Property and Intellectual Property Theory, 2 Texas A&M Journal of Real Property Theory 275 (2015)
Kali Murray, Competitor Regulation of Sponsored Content in the News Sports Content Media Economy, 25 Marq. Sports L. Rev. 253 (2014)
Kali Murray, Serendipity and Care: Cultural and Social History in Property Law, 3 Property Law Review 195 (2014)
Kali Murray, The America Invents Act of 2011 and the Public Infrostructure of Patents, 2012 WIPO-WTO Colloquium Paper (2013)
Kali Murray, Tangible Mediums of Freedom, Haggerty Museum of Art (Fall 2012)
Kali Murray and Dmitry Vinarov, Rethinking Patent Fraud Enforcement in a Reform Era, 13 Marq. Intell. Prop. L. Rev. 264 (Summer 2009)
Kali Murray, Of Gardens and Streets: A Differentiated Framework of Property in National and International Space Law, 32(2) Journal of Space Law 361 (2006)
Elizabeth C. Shaw and Kali Murray, Introduction, 1999 Symposium: The Nexus Between Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development, IX Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum 1 (1999)

Amicus Briefs

Kali N. Murray and Erika George (The University of Utah), Brief of Kali Murray and Erika in Support of Petitioners, The Supreme Court of the United States (filed January 31, 2012)
Kali N. Murray and Erika George (The University of Utah), Brief of Kali Murray and Erika George in Support of Petitioners, The Supreme Court of the United States (filed October 31, 2012) (petition for certiorari)
Kali N. Murray and Erika George (The University of Utah), Brief of Kali Murray and Erika George in Support of Petitioners, The Supreme Court of the United States (filed January 13, 2012) (petition for certiorari)
Erika R. George (The University of Utah) and Kali N. Murray, In Support of Association for Molecular Pathology, et. al., Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (filed December 7, 2010)

Report to the United States Patent and Trademark Office

Contributor, Patent Small Claims: Report to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (March 31, 2023)

Symposium and Conference Organization

Co-Organizer, Annual Mosaic Conference: Diverse Voices in IP, 2014-Present
Kali Murray, Changing Conceptions of Water in the Law, 95 Marquette L. Rev. 1 (2011)
Hannibal Travis, Jason Mazzone, Jasmine Abdel-Khalik, and Sapna Kumar, An Uncomfortable Fit: Intellectual Property Policy and the Administrative State, Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review, 2010)
Kali Murray, Joanne Garbyowincz, and Jacqueline Serrao, Divergences and Convergences: A Symposium Addressing Space Law and Intellectual Property Regimes, The University of Mississippi School of Law, September 19, 200

Online

Kali Murray, The Challenge of Administrative Legitimation in the Racist State, Symposium on Racism in Administrative Law, Yale Journal of Regulation Notice & Comment Blog, August 24, 2020. 
Kali Murray, Tearing at the Mask of the Administrative State, The Regulatory Review, The University of Pennsylvania (November 3, 2020). 
Kali Murray, Teaching from Narrative in Property Law, Part I, Yale Law and Political Economy Blog (February 4, 2019).
Kali Murray, Teaching from Narrative in Property Law, Part II, Yale Law and Political Economy Blog (February 5, 2019)
Kali Murray, Say These Words with Meaning: Patent Reform Now, American Constitutional Society, ACS Blog Symposium on Patent Reform, January 16, 2016)
Kali Murray, Response, The Failure of Good Intentions: Property and Dispossession in Post-Katrina New Orleans, 39 Fordham Urb. L. J. City SQUARE (2012)

Keynote Presentations

Teaching Property and Social Identity in a Time of Tumult, Keynote Address, Evolving Doctrine Series, University of San Diego School of Law, San Diego, CA (Apr. 7, 2025).
Dynamic Patent Governance, Keynote Address, Dynamic Patent Governance Revisited, University of Antwerp School of Law, Antwerp, Belgium (Dec. 12, 2024).
Space, Race, and Transportation Equity, Keynote Address, Space, Race, and Transportation Equity Symposium, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, Indianapolis, IN (Apr. 1, 2022).
Intellectual Property and Liberation, Keynote Lecture, University of St. Thomas Law Review Symposium, University of St. Thomas School of Law, Minneapolis, MN (2022).
Intellectual Property and Liberation, Keynote Address, Race and IP Conference, Florida A&M University College of Law, Zoom (Apr. 10, 2021).

Invited Presentations

(Un)free Trade: Captive Histories of Trademark Law, Invited Lecture, University of Glasgow School of Law, Glasgow, Scotland (Mar. 2026).
Artificial Procedure in Small Claims Court Design, Unsealing Schedule A, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Chicago, IL (Sept. 26, 2025).
Seeing the Dead: Marks, Meaning and the Haunting of American Trademark Law, Race and IP Conference, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Pittsburgh, PA (Apr. 18, 2025).
Who, How, and Why: Answering the Questions of Public Trade Secret Law, Workshop on Trade Secrets and Data Infrastructures, New York University School of Law, New York, NY (Oct. 17, 2024).
A Post Chevron Legal Landscape, Midwest Legislative Conference Annual Meeting, Midwest Legal Conference, Columbus, OH (Aug. 22, 2024).
The Racial Subject and Racial Agent in Intellectual Property Law, Examining Race and Property Law, Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University, Zoom (Feb. 9, 2022).
Affordable Housing and the Community Development Act, Legal Writing Program, Brooklyn Law School, Zoom (Jan. 13, 2022).
The Racial Subject and The Racial Agent in Intellectual Property Law, Lenses on Intellectual Property Law: How to Teach IP from Different Methodological Perspectives, American Association of Law Schools, Zoom (Jan. 8, 2022).
Equity Methods in Administrative Law, ACS Administrative Roundtable, American Constitution Society, Zoom (Dec. 9, 2021).
The Racial Subject and The Racial Agent in Law School, Class Discussion International IP, University of Antwerp Faculty of Law, Zoom (Dec. 7, 2021).
Infrastructure(s), Law, Political Economy and Technology Roundtable, Yale Law School, Zoom (Dec. 3, 2021).
Equity Methods in Administrative Law, Democratizing the Federal Regulatory Process: A Blueprint to Strengthen Equity, Dignity, and Civic Engagement in the Executive Branch, New America / Harvard Kennedy School, Zoom (July 31, 2021).
Justified: Legitimation in Patent Law, 18th Colloquium on Philosophical Methods in Intellectual Property Law, NYU Classical Liberal Institute & Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University, Zoom (June 4, 2021).
Eric Claeys Manuscript Review, Discussant, New York University School of Law / Institute for Humane Studies, New York, NY (May 12, 2021).
The Wisconsin Supreme Court and Administrative Policymaking in a Plague, Plagues, Power and Policy: Lawmaking in a Pandemic, University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire Center for Liberal Democracy, Zoom (Apr. 28, 2021).
Liberation and Race in the Work of Anjali Vats, Author Meets Reader: Anjali Vats's The Color of Creation, IP Center, Golden Gate University School of Law, Zoom (Mar. 24, 2021).
Workshop on Gowder's The Rule of Law, Discussant, University of Virginia School of Law, Zoom (Mar. 12, 2021).
Infrastructure, Power and the Administrative State, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, Zoom (Mar. 3, 2021).
Black Judges and the Federal Bench, Black History Month Event, Alliance for Justice Building the Bench, Zoom (Feb. 22, 2021).
Tetra-Tech: Erasing the Legislature in Administrative Law, Federalist Society Panel on Tetra-Tech, Milwaukee, WI (Oct. 11, 2018).
Politics, Publics, and Movements: The Social World of Patents, Colloquium on Philosophical Approaches to IP, Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University, Hilton Head, SC (May 30, 2018).
Infrastructure, Chicago Intellectual Property Colloquium, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Chicago, IL (Apr. 17, 2018).
Infrastructure, Do Administrative Law and Private Law Mix in IP?, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA (Mar. 28, 2018).
Colloquium on Philosophical Approaches to IP, Discussant, Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University, Washington, D.C. (May 18, 2017).
Patent Politics in an Age of Illiberalism, Patents, Social Justice, and Responsibility, University of Michigan Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, Ann Arbor, MI (Mar. 27, 2017).
The Private Design of Patent Law, Private Law and Intellectual Property, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA (Mar. 11, 2016).
How AIA Trials Have Changed the Patent Landscape, Venable IP Symposium, Venable LLP, Washington, D.C. (Oct. 27, 2015).
Memory in Practice: The Career of Donald Gaines Murray, Jr., Voting Rights, Jim Crow, and Francis King Carey: The Man and the Law School, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, Baltimore, MD (Sept. 24, 2015).
The First Amendment and Art Law, Art, AIDS, Religion and Censorship, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI (Aug. 31, 2015).
Theories of Equity, The Future of Housing—Equity, Stability, Sustainability, The Future of Housing Symposium, Washburn University School of Law, Topeka, KS (Feb. 27, 2015).
What Is Owed: Obligation in Property and Intellectual Property Theory, Texas A&M Real Property Law Journal Symposium on Peter Gerhart’s Property Law and Social Morality, Texas A&M University School of Law, Fort Worth, TX (Oct. 23, 2014).
AALS Mid-Year Workshop on Transnational Perspectives on Equality Law, Association of American Law Schools, Washington, D.C. (June 22, 2014).
Intellectual Property and Information Law in the Administrative State, University of Houston Law Center Institute for Intellectual Property & Information Law (IPIL), Santa Fe, NM (June 8, 2013).
The Public Interest Principle in Constitutional Patent Law, Faculty Workshop, Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law, Philadelphia, PA (Oct. 29, 2012).
The America Invents Act and the Infrastructure of Patent Law, WTO-WIPO Colloquium for Teachers of Intellectual Property, World Trade Organization & World Intellectual Property Organization, Geneva, Switzerland (June 13, 2012).
The Hive Mind: Informational Aggregation and Its Impacts in Patent and Environmental Law, Wisconsin International Law Journal Annual Symposium, University of Wisconsin Law School, Madison, WI (Mar. 23, 2012).
Indigenous Property Law and the American Property System, Michigan State IPLC Spring Speaker Series, Michigan State University College of Law, East Lansing, MI (Jan. 26, 2012).
Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI (May 26, 2011).
The Public Interest in Patent Law, Progressive Property Workshop, McGill University Faculty of Law, Montreal, QC, Canada (May 14, 2011).
Third Annual Intellectual Property Law Symposium, Invited Speaker, University of Akron School of Law, Akron, OH (Oct. 29, 2009).
The Basic Enforcement of United States Intellectual Property Policy Framework, The International Institute of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI (Sept. 25, 2009).
The Architecture of International Property Law, Faculty Workshop, Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law, Villanova, PA (Apr. 15, 2009).
The Architecture of International Property Law, Faculty Workshop, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, New Orleans, LA (Sept. 2008).
An Unknown Landscape: Viewing Governance Choices in the Patent Law of the European Union, Faculty Colloquium, University of St. Thomas School of Law, Minneapolis, MN (Feb. 18, 2008).

Other Presentations (Conferences, Panels, Roundtables, & Moderating)

Property Law and Social Identity, Aspen Leading Edge Podcast, Aspen Publishing (Mar. 14, 2023).
Vision of Democracy in the Regulatory State, AALS Annual Meeting, American Association of Law Schools, San Diego, CA (Jan. 6, 2023).
White Supremacy, Land, and Law, American Society for Legal History (ASLH) 43rd Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL (Nov. 10, 2022).
Badges of Enslavement: Trademarks and Meaning in the Early Republic, Society of Early American Historians, OAH Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (July 21, 2022).
Administrative Law Works in Progress, 2021 AALS Annual Meeting, Administrative Law Section, Zoom (Jan. 9, 2021).
Infrastructure, 4th Annual IP Mosaic Roundtable, University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law, Concord, NH (Oct. 24, 2018).
Infrastructure, Intellectual Property Scholars Conference (IPSC), Cardozo School of Law, New York, NY (Aug. 10, 2017).
Policing: A Community Development Strategy?, Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (Jan. 4, 2017) (Discussant).
Trademark Law in the Time of Kulturkampf, Property Works in Progress Conference, Boston University School of Law, Boston, MA (Sept. 22, 2016).
Second Annual Mosaic Conference, Marquette University Law School, Milwaukee, WI (Mar. 14, 2016) (Co-Organizer & Presenter).
Book Panel: Kara Swanson’s Banking on the Body: The Market in Blood, Milk and Sperm in Modern America, Association for Law, Property, and Society (ALPS) 6th Annual Meeting, Athens, GA (May 2, 2015).
The First Annual Mosaic Conference: Diverse Voices in Intellectual Property Law, Marquette University Law School, Milwaukee, WI (Nov. 14, 2014) (Co-Organizer & Presenter).
Dispossession at the Center of Property, Savannah Law Review Symposium: (Re)Integrating Spaces, Savannah Law School, Savannah, GA (Sept. 19, 2014).
Intellectual Property and Identity: Race, Genetics, Equality and the Costs of Commodification, Association for Law, Property, and Society (ALPS) 5th Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, Canada (May 1, 2014).
Myriad and the Social World, Law and Society Association (LSA) Annual Meeting, Boston, MA (June 1, 2013).
A Statement of Progressive Intellectual Property, AALS Mid-Year Workshop on Property, Poverty and Immigration, San Diego, CA (June 1, 2013).
Property Methodologies: A Law, Culture and History Approach, Association for Law, Property, and Society (ALPS) 4th Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN (Apr. 24, 2013).
On Scholarship: Writing Critical and Progressive Scholarship, SALT Annual Teaching Conference, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, Baltimore, MD (Oct. 5, 2012) (Panelist).
The First Amendment and Patent Law, Intellectual Property Scholars Roundtable, Drake University Law School, Des Moines, IA (Mar. 29, 2012).
Changing Conceptions of Water in the Law, Joint Program of the AALS Sections on Property and Agricultural Law, AALS Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (Jan. 8, 2011) (Coordinator & Organizer).
Property Law and Race, Association for Law, Property, and Society (ALPS) 2nd Annual Meeting, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C. (Mar. 3, 2011).
Third National People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference (NPOC), Seton Hall University School of Law, Newark, NJ (Sept. 3, 2010).
The Public Interest in Patent Law, 10th Annual Intellectual Property Scholars Conference (IPSC), Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, UC Berkeley School of Law, Berkeley, CA (Aug. 13, 2010).
The Core of Property: What is Essential in the First Year?, AALS Mid-Year Meeting on Property Law, New York, NY (June 2010) (Moderator).
An Uncomfortable Fit: Intellectual Property and the Administrative State, Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) Annual Conference, Palm Beach, FL (Aug. 4, 2009) (Moderator).
Scope of Patent Protection under Section 101—In re Bilski, Third Annual BNA/ABA Section of IP Law Conference, Arlington, VA (Oct. 6, 2008) (Moderator).
The Architecture of International Property Law, First Annual Works-in-Progress in Property (WPIP), University of Colorado Law School, Boulder, CO (June 15, 2008).
First Things, First: A Principled Approach to Patent Law, Intellectual Property Scholars Roundtable, Drake University Law School, Des Moines, IA (Feb. 22, 2008).