In this volume, leading scholars of intellectual property and information policy examine what the common law – understood broadly as a method of reasoning, an approach to rulemaking, and a body of substantive law – can contribute to discussions about intellectual property. Drawing on a range of interdisciplinary ideas and principles that are embedded within the working of the common law, the volume shows that answers to many of modern intellectual property law’s most puzzling questions may be found in the versatility and adaptability of the common law in all of its wisdom. The various chapters argue that, despite the degree of interdisciplinary specialization that the field sees today, intellectual property is fundamentally a creation of the law; and that the basic building blocks of the law can shed important light on the working of our various intellectual property regimes. Shyamkrishna Balganesh is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. His scholarship focuses on understanding how intellectual property and innovation policy can benefit from the use of ideas, concepts, and structures from different areas of private law. He obtained his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was an Articles & Essays Editor at the Yale Law Journal and a Student Fellow at the Information Society Project.