Books

• The Canon of American Legal Thought (with David Kennedy) (Princeton University Press 2006) 
• Promises to Keep: Technology, Law and the Future of Entertainment (Stanford University Press 2004) 
• Legal Reform in Central America: Dispute Resolution and Property Systems (with Martha A. Field) (Kennedy School of Government 2001) 
• American Legal Realism (with Morton J. Horwitz and Thomas A. Reed) (Oxford University Press 1993)

Articles

• “Fostering Production of Pharmaceutical Products in Developing Countries” (with Ruth Okediji and Padmashree Gehl Sampath), Michigan Journal of International Law 43 (2021).
• “Why is Traditional Knowledge Different from all Other Intellectual Property,” Washburn Law Review 58 (2019): 365
• “The Puzzle of Traditional Knowledge,” Duke Law Journal 67 (2018): 1511
• “Regulating Innovation,” University of Chicago Law Review Dialogue 82 (2016): 251.
• “Medicines for the Mind: Policy-Based ‘Pull’ Incentives for Creating Breakthrough CNS Drugs” (with Dennis W. Choi et al.), Neuron 84 (2014): 554
• “Strategic Management of Intellectual Property — An Integrated Approach” (with Felix Oberholzer-Gee), California Management Review 55 (2013): 157
• “Reflections on the Hope Poster Case” (with Frank Cost, Shepard Fairey, Meir Feder, Edwin Fountain, Geoffrey Stewart & Marita Sturken), Harvard Journal on Law & Technology 25 (2012): 243
• “The Implications for Law of User Innovation,” Minnesota Law Review 94 (2010): 1417 
• “Legal Theory and Legal Education: 1920-2000,” in Christopher Tomlins, ed., The Cambridge History of Law in America (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
• “When Should We Permit Differential Pricing of Information?” UCLA Law Review 55 (2007): 1
• “Global Justice in Health Care:  Developing Drugs for the Developing World” (with Talha Syed), U.C. Davis Law Review 40 (2007): 581
• “Film and Media Studies and the Law of the DVD” (with Jacqueline Harlow), Cinema Journal 45:3 (Spring 2006) 
• “Copyright,” “Patent,” and “Intellectual Property,” Encyclopædia Britannica (2004) 
• “The Disaggregation of Intellectual Property” (chair lecture, October 2003)
• “The Impact of Terminator Gene Technologies on Developing Countries,” in Timothy Swanson, ed., Biotechnology, Agriculture, and the Developing World (Edward Elgar Publishing 2002) 
• “Property and Power in American Legal History,” in Ron Harris et al., eds., The History of Law in a Multi-Cultural Society (Ashgate 2002) 
• “Theories of Intellectual Property,” in Stephen Munzer, ed., New Essays in the Legal and Political Theory of Property (Cambridge University Press, 2001) (Chinese translation, by Haifeng Huang, in Chinese Intellectual Property Review 1 (2002): 1.)
• “Intellectual Property and Innovation: Theoretical, Empirical, and Historical Perspectives,” in Industrial Property, Innovation, and the Knowledge-based Economy, Beleidsstudies Technologie Economie, Vol. 37 (2001) 
• “Geistiges Eigentum – ein ausufernder Rechtsbereich: Die Geschichte des Ideenschutzes in den Vereinigten Staaten,” in Eigentum im internationalen Vergleich (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1999), 265-91 (English version available as: The Growth of Intellectual Property: A History of the Ownership of Ideas in the United States)
• “Property and Contract on the Internet,” Chicago-Kent Law Review 73 (1999): 1203 
• “Texts and Contexts: The Application to American Legal History of the Methodologies of Intellectual History” Stanford Law Review 49 (1997): 1065 (also published in History and European Private Law: Development of Common Methods and Principles (Stockholm: Nerenius & Santérus, 1997), 29-66) 
• “Interpreting Holmes,” Harvard Law Review 110 (1997): 1010 
• “Critical Legal Studies” and “Law and Economics,” in Richard Fox and James Kloppenberg, eds., A Companion to American Thought (Blackwell, 1995) 
• “Ideology and Imagery in the Law of Slavery,” Chicago-Kent Law Review 68 (1993): 1051 (revised and expanded version published in Paul Finkelman, ed., Slavery and the Law (Madison House 1997), 43-85) 
• “The Trouble with Lucas,” Stanford Law Review 45 (1993): 1393 
• “The Development of Twentieth-Century American Legal Theory and the Judicial Interpretation of the Bill of Rights,” in Michael Lacey & Knud Haakonssen, eds., A Culture of Rights (Cambridge University Press, 1991), 266-365 
• “Ideology, Religion, and the Constitutional Protection of Private Property, 1760-1860,” Emory Law Journal 39 (1990): 65 
• “The Jurisprudence of Justice Marshall,” Harvard Blackletter Journal 6 (1989): 131 
• “The Significance of Public Perceptions of the Takings Doctrine,” Columbia Law Review 88 (1988): 1774 
• “Reconstructing the Fair Use Doctrine,” Harvard Law Review 101 (1988): 1659 

Online Publications

• Lectures on Patent Law (2020)
• Lectures on Copyright (2014)
• Maps of Intellectual Property (2014) 
• Copyright for Librarians (in collaboration with Electronic Information for Libraries) (2010) 
• “Copyright and Wrongs,” The Economist, May 2009, http://www.economist.com/debate/overview/144
• “The Digital Learning Challenge: Obstacles to Educational Uses of Copyrighted Material in the Digital Age” (with William McGeveran) (August 2006), http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/publications/2006/The_Digital_Learning_Challenge
• “The South Africa AIDS Controversy: A Case Study in Patent Law and Policy” (with Cyrill P. Rigamonti) (February 10, 2005) 
• “Digital Music: Problems and Possibilities” (October 10, 2000), http://www.law.harvard.edu/Academic_Affairs/coursepages/tfisher/Music.html
• The Bridge (with Abram Chayes, Morton Horwitz, Frank Michelman, Martha Minow, Charles Nesson, & Todd Rakoff) (1999), http://eon.law.harvard.edu/bridge/

Reviews

• “Stories about Property,” Michigan Law Review 94 (1996): 1776 
• “Making Sense of Madison,” Journal of Law and Social Inquiry 18 (1993): 547 
• “The Defects of Dualism,” University of Chicago Law Review 59 (1992): 955 
• Review of Liberty, Property, and the Future of Constitutional Development, by Ellen Paul and Howard Dickman, Business History Review (Spring 1991): 161 
• “Webster’s Legal Legacy,” Reviews in American History 18 (1990): 44