In this episode, Stephanie Plamondon Bair, Associate Professor of Law at the Brigham Young University J. Reuben Clark Law School, discusses her new article Impoverished IP. She argues that recent debates about using intellectual property systems, especially patent and copyright, as a means for economically empowering those in poverty miss an important mark. In her article, Professor Bair discusses findings from psychology and neuroscience about the cognitive burdens that poverty imposes on decision making and creativity. She concludes that these burdens are an underappreciated obstacle to meaningful participation in the creative process, and identifies policy interventions that more directly promote values of distributive justice. Professor Bair’s article is available on SSRN.

This episode was hosted by Saurabh Vishnubhakat, Associate Professor in the School of Law and Associate Professor in the Dwight Look College of Engineering at the Texas A&M University. Professor Vishnubhakat is on Twitter at @emptydoors.

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