The UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law Intellectual Property Library continues to step forward in 2025 with new acquisitions that will excite scholars, students, and innovators alike. This curated collection blends tradition with transformation, addressing emerging legal frontiers such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, and the metaverse, while also reinforcing foundational IP principles across global, cultural, and technological perspectives.
Here’s a deep dive, with the assistance of ChatGPT, into the most exciting themes and titles from this year’s new additions.
UNH is doubling down on its commitment to staying ahead of the curve with titles that explore the seismic shifts in legal practice and regulation driven by technology.
“Generative Artificial Intelligence: A Law and Economics Approach to Optimal Regulation and Governance” (Kovac, 2022) and “Taxing Artificial Intelligence” (Oberson, 2022) provide forward-thinking analysis on regulatory and fiscal challenges posed by AI systems.
“Prompt Engineering and Generative AI Applications for Teaching and Learning” is a timely guide for educators integrating LLMs like ChatGPT into pedagogy—perfect for our own faculty development initiatives.
“Exploration of AI in Contemporary Legal Systems” and “The AI-Driven Lawyer” delve into how AI is disrupting both the courts and the client-attorney relationship.
These titles directly support UNH’s Legal Technology & Informatics curriculum and augment our leadership in AI & law intersections.
Many of the new acquisitions address the cross-border complexities of intellectual property, access, and innovation in global contexts:
“The TRIPS Waiver Negotiations at the WTO: When IP Trumped Global Health” offers a crucial post-COVID critique of international IP regimes.
“Empowering Farmers: Understanding IP Rights and Seed Laws in India” and “African Free Trade Agreements and Intellectual Property” provide invaluable insight into regional challenges around IP, agriculture, and trade.
“Reflecting on the Past, Shaping the Future: Examining IP and Tech Law in Africa” demonstrates UNH’s commitment to inclusive and decolonial legal scholarship.
These additions reinforce our IP Center’s global focus and will serve students in our international law, public policy, and social justice clinics.
Creative industries remain a staple of our IP curriculum, and this year’s selections enhance our depth in music, media, and cultural rights:
“Music Copyright, Creativity and Culture” and “Monetizing Your Music Copyrights and Beyond” explore the artistic and commercial dimensions of musical works.
“Google Rules: The History and Future of Copyright Under the Influence of Google” is an engaging chronicle of Big Tech’s IP disruption.
“Forensic Musicology and the Blurred Lines of Federal Copyright History” (Leo, 2021) blends law and music in one of the most exciting interdisciplinary reads on the shelf.
These titles are ideal for our IP & Entertainment Law track and for seminars on digital rights and creativity.
Biotechnology and pharmaceuticals continue to be IP battlegrounds—and these additions bring new firepower to our research and teaching:
“Generic Medicines and Pharmaceutical Patents” and “Navigating Patent Rights and Public Health Amidst the Pandemic Paradox” touch on the fraught balance between innovation and access.
“Patenting Life” (Goldstein, 2022) is a rare insider's narrative from the frontlines of biotech patent law.
“Valuing Intellectual Property through Patents” and “Patent Protection for Smart Systems” provide practical and economic perspectives on IP assets—critical for our Tech Transfer Clinic and startup advising initiatives.
One standout addition is “The Licensing Racket: How We Decide Who Is Allowed to Work, and Why It Goes Wrong” (Harvard, 2025). This sociolegal critique of occupational licensing intersects labor law, antitrust, and regulatory reform, with direct relevance to UNH’s health law and entrepreneurship scholars.
Titles like “Patentability and Morality” and “The Digital Rights Delusion” push us to examine the philosophical and ethical contours of IP in modern society.
“The Big Steal: Ideology, Interest, and the Undoing of Intellectual Property” (OUP, 2022) challenges the dominant capitalist framing of IP law.
“Indigenous Intellectual Property: An Interrupted Intergenerational Conversation” is a powerful contribution to our decolonial and Native law conversations on campus.
These books speak to the future of IP as a cultural and ethical system—an essential discourse for law students as public citizens.
A strong thread of practitioner-focused resources also runs through this acquisition list:
“Unofficial Practice Review Questions for the USPTO Registration Exam”
“Guide to Filing a Non-Provisional Utility Patent in the U.S.”
“Mastering Legal Tech and AI”
These additions reinforce UNH’s bar exam prep and our institutional expertise in patent agent education.
This year’s additions to the UNH IP Library demonstrate a dynamic, interdisciplinary, and inclusive approach to curation. They:
Address the intersection of law and emerging technologies
Expand geographic and cultural perspectives in global and comparative IP
Support practical skills in patent prosecution, licensing, and AI practice
Enrich critical legal theory and public interest debate
As faculty, students, and researchers engage with this forward-looking collection, we reaffirm UNH Franklin Pierce’s position as a national leader in intellectual property education.
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