Bound By Law

We'd like honor the comics of late Professor Keith Aoki.  Professor Aoki wrote legal comics even as a student at Harvard Law.  He recently translated his expertise in intellectual property and copyright law into a full published comic book with James Boyle and Jeniffer Jenkins.  You can read the expanded edition here:


http://www.thepublicdomain.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/bound-by-law-duke-edition.pdf

Professor Aoki also studied, taught, and wrote about environmental issues, race issues, agriculture patents, and immigration.   From a bio on the Center for the Study of Public Domain website:

Keith Aoki is a longtime cartoonist who loves the late 1960s comic work of Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Jim Steranko and earlier greats like Will Eisner, Chester Gould and Al Capp. He has also been influenced by the vibrant contemporary work of Robert Crumb, Scott McCloud, Art Spiegelman and Jamie Hernandez. In the mid-1980s, Aoki decided to leave the bohemian art demimonde to go to Harvard Law School. He is now Professor of Law at U.C. Davis King Hall School of Law, where he has taught since 2007, and specializes in the areas of intellectual property, local government law, globalization, and critical theory. Prior to U.C. Davis, he was the Philip H. Knight Professor of Law at the University of Oregon School of Law, which he joined in 1993. He has published law review articles in the Stanford, California, Iowa and Boston College Law Reviews and is author of the forthcoming book Seed Wars: Cases and Materials on Intellectual Property and Plant Genetic Resources

You can find another bio and list of Professor Aoki's publications on his page on the U.C. Davis website.

Thank you, Professor Aoki, for adding your creativity and love of comics to the study and discussion of law.