N. Stephan Kinsella Email and Phone Number

Stephan Kinsella is an attorney and libertarian writer in Houston. He was previously General Counsel for Applied Optoelectronics, Inc., a partner with Duane Morris, and adjunct professor at South Texas College of Law Houston. A registered patent attorney, he received an LL.M. (international business law) from King’s College London, a JD from the Paul M. Hebert Law Center at Louisiana State University (LSU), and BSEE and MSEE degrees from LSU.He has spoken, lectured and published widely on both legal topics, including intellectual property law and international law, and also on various areas of libertarian legal theory. Libertarian-related publications include Legal Foundations of a Free Society (Papinian Press, 2023), A Life in Liberty: Liber Amicorum in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe (co-editor, with Jörg Guido Hülsmann, Papinian Press, 2024), Against Intellectual Property (Mises Institute, 2008), and others.Stephan’s legal publications include International Investment, Political Risk, and Dispute Resolution: A Practitioner’s Guide (Oxford, 2020; second ed. forthcoming 2026); Digest of Commercial Laws of the World (Oxford, 1998-2013); Protecting Foreign Investment Under International Law: Legal Aspects of Political Risk (Oceana Publications, 1997); and Louisiana Civil Law Dictionary (Quid Pro Books, 2011).He is a member of the Judicial Committee of the Libertarian Party (2022–26), a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Molinari Review (2014–), Reason Papers, and other journals and book series. He is Founder and Director of the Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom (2010–present) and was Founder, Executive Editor, and publisher of Libertarian Papers (2009–2018), a Senior Fellow of the Ludwig von Mises Institute (2009–2013) and Book Review Editor of the Journal of Libertarian Studies (Mises Institute, 2000–2004). He has also run for Judge, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, as a Libertarian, in 2002, and 2024.More at https://stephankinsella.com/about/ and https://stephankinsella.com/publications/#biographical