Pottage, Alain


Mr Alain Pottage  

Department

Position held

Department of Law

Reader in Property Law

Experience keywords:

biotechnology patents; property law; french social thought

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Research interests lie in intellectual property (with particular reference to the field of biotechnology), theories of property, law and anthropology, and social theory.

Sectors and industries to which research relates:

Law

Languages:

French [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Fluent]

Media experience:

Radio

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

+44 (0)20 7955 7270

Publications

The following references are sourced from LSE Research Online|. References that are linked lead to the full text.

2012

Pottage, Alain (2012) The materiality of what? Journal of law and society, 39 (1). pp. 167-183. ISSN 0263-323X

Gaskell, George and Stares, Sally and Pottage, Alain (2012) How Europe's ethical divide looms over biotech law and patents. Nature biotechnology, 30 (5). pp. 392-394. ISSN 1087-0156

2011

Pottage, Alain (2011) Biotechnology as environmental regulation. In: Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Andreas, (ed.) Law and ecology: new environmental foundations. Routledge, Oxford, UK, pp. 105-125. ISBN 9780415587136

Pottage, Alain and Sherman, Brad (2011) Kinds, clones, and manufactures. In: Biagioli, Mario and Jaszi, Peter and Woodmansee, Martha, (eds.) Making and unmaking intellectual property: creative production in legal and cultural perspective. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, USA, pp. 269-283. ISBN 9780226907086

Pottage, Alain (2011) Book review: Foucault's law by Ben Golder and Peter Fitzpatrick. The modern law review, 74 (1). pp. 159-168. ISSN 00267961

Pottage, Alain (2011) Law machines: scale models, forensic materiality and the making of modern patent law. Social studies of science, 41 (5). pp. 621-643. ISSN 0306-3127

Pottage, Alain (2011) Forensic machinery. Cabinet Magazine

2010

Pottage, Alain (2010) Figures of invention: a history of modern patent law. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780199595631

2009

Pottage, Alain (2009) Protocell patents: property between modularity and emergence. In: Bedau, Mark A. and Parke, Emily C., (eds.) The ethics of protocells: moral and social implications of creating life in the laboratory. MIT Press, Boston, USA. ISBN 9780262012621

Pottage, Alain (2009) Fiction science and proprietary effect. In: Gaudilliere, J-P. and Kevles, D., (eds.) Living properties. Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany, pp. 225-239.

2008

Pottage, Alain (2008) Fabled animals [Review of Michel Serres (translated by Lawrence R. Schehr) The parasit)]. BioSocieties, 3 pp. 452-455. ISSN 1745-8552

2007

Pottage, Alain and Sherman, Brad (2007) Organisms and manufactures: on the history of plant inventions. Melbourne University law review, 31 (2). pp. 539-568. ISSN 0025-8938

Pottage, Alain (2007) The socio-legal implications of the new biotechnologies. Annual review of law and social science, 3 pp. 321-344. ISSN 1550-3631

Pottage, Alain (2007) Conflicts of laws: comparing autochthonous legal cultures. In: Stetter, Stephan, (ed.) Territorial Conflicts in World Society: Modern Systems Theory, International Relations and Conflict Studies. Routledge, U.K.. ISBN 9780415416740

2006

Pottage, Alain (2006) Materialities in life and law: informatic technologies and industrial property. Paragrana, 15 (1). pp. 82-101. ISSN 0938-0116

Pottage, Alain (2006) Too much ownership: bioprospecting in the age of synthetic biology. BioSocieties, 1 pp. 137-158. ISSN 1745-8552

2004

Pottage, Alain (2004) An ethology of judgement? Zeitschrift für rechtsoziologie, 25 (2). pp. 255-267. ISSN 0174-0202

Pottage, Alain (2004) Who owns academic knowledge? Cambridge anthropology, 24 (1). pp. 1-20. ISSN 0305-7674

Pottage, Alain (2004) Fabricating persons and things. In: Pottage, Alain and Mundy, Martha, (eds.) Law, anthropology, and the constitution of the social making persons and things. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521831784

Pottage, Alain (2004) Our original inheritance. In: Pottage, Alain and Mundy, Martha, (eds.) Law, anthropology, and the constitution of the social making persons and things. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521831784

Mundy, Martha and Pottage, R.A, (eds.) (2004) Law, anthropology, and the constitution of the social: making persons and things. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. ISBN 0521539455

Pottage, Alain (2004) Recursos genéticos através do divisor molecular: o futuro das tecnologias de proteçao de genes. In: Varella, Marcelo Dias and Platiau, Ana Flávia Barros, (eds.) Diversidade biológica e conhecimentos tradicionais. Del Rey, Belo Horizonte, Brasil. ISBN 9788573087482

Pottage, Alain (2004) Our original inheritance. In: Pottage, Alain and Mundy, Martha, (eds.) Law, anthropology and the constitution of the social: making persons and things:. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 249-285. ISBN 0521539455

2001

Pottage, Alain (2001) Persons and things. An ethnographic analogy. Economy & society, 30 (1). pp. 112-138. ISSN 0308-5147

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Alain Pottage holds degrees from the University of Edinburgh and the London School of Economics. Before joining the Law Department of the LSE, he was a researcher at the Law Commission and a lecturer in the School of Law at King's College London. He has been a visiting professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes in Paris, the University of Sydney, and Cornell Law School.

 

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