Professor Sonia Katyal delivered a lecture on The Commercial Counterpublic.
Professor Katyal developed a theory that situates recent cases as part of a growing trend of counterpublic discourse that develops in parallel to mainstream public spheres, enabling subordinated social groups to circulate oppositional interpretations of their identities. Using the notion of counterpublic intellectual properties as a lens, this talk attempts to show how these cases – and the inequities that follow from them -- may produce an even greater discord between the marketplace of goods and ideas as a result.
