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name: Stephan Kinsella
role: Legal Advisor
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Stephan Kinsella is a registered patent attorney and has over twenty years’ experience in patent, intellectual property, and general commercial and corporate law. He is the founder and director of the [Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom](http://c4sif.org/). Kinsella has published numerous articles and books on intellectual property law and legal topics including [_International Investment, Political Risk, and Dispute Resolution: A Practitioner’s Guide_](http://www.amazon.com/International-Investment-Political-Dispute-Resolution/dp/0379215225) and [_Against Intellectual Property_](https://mises.org/library/against-intellectual-property-0) .

He received an LL.M. in international business law from [King’s College London](http://www.kcl.ac.uk/), a JD from the Paul M. Hebert Law Center at [Louisiana State University](//lsu.edu), as well as BSEE and MSEE degrees. His websites are [stephankinsella.com](http://stephankinsella.com) and [kinsellalaw.com](http://kinsellalaw.com)