Rate My Professor Amy Kapczynski

Kapczynski’s scholarship investigates how law shapes and is shaped by political economy, spanning intellectual property law, health, international law, constitutional law, health justice, technology, and democratic theory. Notable publications include the edited volume Access to Knowledge in the Age of Intellectual Property (Zone Press, 2010, with Gaëlle Krikorian); "Building a Law-and-Political-Economy Framework: Beyond the Twentieth-Century Synthesis," 129 Yale Law Journal 1784 (2020, with Jedediah Britton-Purdy, David Singh Grewal, and K. Sabeel Rahman); "The Law of Informational Capitalism," 129 Yale Law Journal 1276 (2020); "The Public’s Secrets: The Law and Political Economy of Trade Secrets," 55 U.C. Davis Law Review 1367 (2022); and "The Political Economy of Market Power in Pharmaceuticals," Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law (2023). She edited Rethinking Law (MIT Press, 2022) and has published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Boston Review, and Health Affairs. Kapczynski has testified before state and federal legislatures, collaborated with social movements on global access to medicines, co-founded the Law and Political Economy blog where she serves on the editorial board, and co-led the Collaboration for Research Integrity and Transparency. In 2022, she received the Yale Law Women Faculty Excellence Award for her teaching, which includes courses on Intellectual Property Law, Law and Political Economy, and the Health and Justice Practicum.