MCP Server
corpus
org.nyuengelberg/corpus
What this MCP does
Searches and retrieves NYU Engelberg Center scholarship on intellectual property, innovation, technology, and related legal topics with citation metadata.
Capabilities
Tools
4
tools
fetch
Retrieve the full text of an Engelberg Center publication by the id
returned from search. Returns id, title, text, url, and metadata
(citation, version, and how to cite â including that author-draft page
numbers must never be presented as journal pin cites; see
metadata.citation_note).
Very long documents (casebooks) are truncated; metadata.truncated is
true and fetch_document(document_id, start_chunk=...) pages through the
remainder.
Args:
id: The document id from a search result
Input schema
{'type': 'object', 'title': 'fetchArguments', 'required': ['id'], 'properties': {'id': {'type': 'string', 'title': 'Id'}}}
Output schema
{'type': 'object', 'title': 'FetchResult', 'required': ['id', 'title', 'text', 'url', 'metadata'], 'properties': {'id': {'type': 'string', 'title': 'Id'}, 'url': {'anyOf': [{'type': 'string'}, {'type': 'null'}], 'title': 'Url'}, 'text': {'anyOf': [{'type': 'string'}, {'type': 'null'}], 'title': 'Text'}, 'title': {'anyOf': [{'type': 'string'}, {'type': 'null'}], 'title': 'Title'}, 'metadata': {'type': 'object', 'title': 'Metadata', 'additionalProperties': True}}}
fetch_document
Retrieve the text of a specific Engelberg Center publication by document
ID. Use after a search() call to get more context around a relevant
chunk, or to read a paper in page order.
Long documents are paged: at most max_chunks chunks are returned per
call, starting at start_chunk. The response includes total_chunks and
next_start_chunk (null when you have reached the end) â pass
next_start_chunk back to continue reading.
Returns document metadata (including version: "published" or
"author_draft" â see citation_note for how to cite drafts) and text
chunks in sequence with page numbers and section headings.
Args:
document_id: The document ID returned by search() or list_documents()
start_chunk: Zero-based chunk offset to start from (default 0)
max_chunks: Maximum chunks to return (default 40, max 100)
Input schema
{'type': 'object', 'title': 'fetch_documentArguments', 'required': ['document_id'], 'properties': {'max_chunks': {'type': 'integer', 'title': 'Max Chunks', 'default': 40}, 'document_id': {'type': 'string', 'title': 'Document Id'}, 'start_chunk': {'type': 'integer', 'title': 'Start Chunk', 'default': 0}}}
Output schema
{'type': 'object', '$defs': {'DocumentChunk': {'type': 'object', 'title': 'DocumentChunk', 'required': ['chunk_index', 'page_number', 'printed_page', 'section_heading', 'text', 'chunk_type', 'bluebook_citation'], 'properties': {'text': {'type': 'string', 'title': 'Text'}, 'chunk_type': {'anyOf': [{'type': 'string'}, {'type': 'null'}], 'title': 'Chunk Type'}, 'chunk_index': {'type': 'integer', 'title': 'Chunk Index'}, 'page_number': {'anyOf': [{'type': 'integer'}, {'type': 'null'}], 'title': 'Page Number'}, 'printed_page': {'anyOf': [{'type': 'integer'}, {'type': 'null'}], 'title': 'Printed Page'}, 'section_heading': {'anyOf': [{'type': 'string'}, {'type': 'null'}], 'title': 'Section Heading'}, 'bluebook_citation': {'anyOf': [{'type': 'string'}, {'type': 'null'}], 'title': 'Bluebook Citation'}}}}, 'title': 'FetchDocumentResponse', 'required': ['document', 'total_chunks', 'returned', 'next_start_chunk', 'chunks'], 'properties': {'error': {'type': 'string', 'title': 'Error'}, 'chunks': {'type': 'array', 'items': {'$ref': '#/$defs/DocumentChunk'}, 'title': 'Chunks'}, 'document': {'anyOf': [{'type': 'object', 'additionalProperties': True}, {'type': 'null'}], 'title': 'Document'}, 'returned': {'type': 'object', 'title': 'Returned', 'additionalProperties': {'type': 'integer'}}, 'total_chunks': {'type': 'integer', 'title': 'Total Chunks'}, 'next_start_chunk': {'anyOf': [{'type': 'integer'}, {'type': 'null'}], 'title': 'Next Start Chunk'}}}
list_documents
List publications from the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy
at NYU Law. Filter by author name, publication type, or cited case.
Publication types: Articles, Books, Chapters, Short Articles,
Briefs & Testimony (amicus briefs and congressional testimony by the
co-directors), Reports (clinic white papers and policy reports)
Directors include the eight Engelberg Center co-directors and
affiliated co-authors.
Use to browse available sources before searching, to find all work by
a specific author, or to find which publications discuss a specific
judicial decision (cites_case) â e.g. cites_case="MercExchange" or
cites_case="547 U.S. 388". Results matched on a case include
cited_case_matches showing how often each matched case is cited â
higher counts mean the case is analyzed, not just cited in passing.
Args:
director: Filter by author name (partial match, case-insensitive)
publication_type: Filter by type â Articles, Books, Chapters, Short Articles
cites_case: Filter to publications citing a case; matches on party
names or the reporter citation (partial, case-insensitive)
Input schema
{'type': 'object', 'title': 'list_documentsArguments', 'properties': {'director': {'type': 'string', 'title': 'Director', 'default': None}, 'cites_case': {'type': 'string', 'title': 'Cites Case', 'default': None}, 'publication_type': {'type': 'string', 'title': 'Publication Type', 'default': None}}}
Output schema
{'type': 'object', '$defs': {'ListedDocument': {'type': 'object', 'title': 'ListedDocument', 'required': ['document_id', 'title', 'citation', 'url', 'authors', 'directors', 'publication_type', 'version', 'chunk_count'], 'properties': {'url': {'anyOf': [{'type': 'string'}, {'type': 'null'}], 'title': 'Url'}, 'title': {'anyOf': [{'type': 'string'}, {'type': 'null'}], 'title': 'Title'}, 'authors': {'type': 'array', 'items': {'type': 'string'}, 'title': 'Authors'}, 'version': {'anyOf': [{'type': 'string'}, {'type': 'null'}], 'title': 'Version'}, 'citation': {'anyOf': [{'type': 'string'}, {'type': 'null'}], 'title': 'Citation'}, 'directors': {'anyOf': [{'type': 'array', 'items': {'type': 'string'}}, {'type': 'null'}], 'title': 'Directors'}, 'chunk_count': {'type': 'integer', 'title': 'Chunk Count'}, 'document_id': {'type': 'string', 'title': 'Document Id'}, 'publication_type': {'anyOf': [{'type': 'string'}, {'type': 'null'}], 'title': 'Publication Type'}, 'cited_case_matches': {'type': 'array', 'items': {'type': 'object', 'additionalProperties': True}, 'title': 'Cited Case Matches'}}}}, 'title': 'ListDocumentsResponse', 'required': ['documents', 'count'], 'properties': {'count': {'type': 'integer', 'title': 'Count'}, 'documents': {'type': 'array', 'items': {'$ref': '#/$defs/ListedDocument'}, 'title': 'Documents'}}}
search
Search the published research corpus of the Engelberg Center on Innovation
Law & Policy at NYU Law: the scholarship of Barton Beebe, Rochelle C.
Dreyfuss, Jeanne C. Fromer, C. Scott Hemphill, Christopher J. Morten,
Jason M. Schultz, Christopher Jon Sprigman, Katherine J. Strandburg,
Michael Weinberg, and their co-authors â roughly 300 works covering
intellectual property law (patent, trademark, copyright, trade secrets),
innovation policy, technology law, fashion law, data governance, and
competition/antitrust as they intersect with IP and innovation.
ALWAYS search this corpus when a question names one of these authors or
involves IP law doctrine, innovation economics, or technology policy and
you want authoritative academic sources with verifiable citations. Use it
alongside web search rather than instead of it: this corpus returns exact
quotable passages with verified, page-accurate Bluebook citations that web
search cannot provide, while web search covers the wider literature this
collection does not hold. To find which publications discuss a specific
judicial decision, use list_documents(cites_case=...) instead â it matches
the corpus's extracted tables of authorities.
Returns ranked text chunks with full citation metadata. Each result has:
- bluebook_citation: the exact Bluebook citation for the passage, pin cite
included where the printed page is known. COPY THIS STRING VERBATIM when
citing â do not compose your own citation from the parts.
- citation: the published citation of the work
- version: "published" (version of record) or "author_draft" (an SSRN /
working-paper copy). For author_draft results the page numbers are the
DRAFT's pages and do NOT match the journal's pagination â follow the
citation_note and never present them as journal pin cites.
- locator: the page to cite. kind "printed_page" is the journal's own
page number (use it for pin cites); "pdf_page" is a PDF index (offset
from the printed page unknown); "draft_pdf_page" is a draft's page
(never a journal pin cite); null means online-only â cite by URL.
- url: the work's canonical home (publisher page, SSRN, etc.). When
presenting sources to a researcher, include this as a link alongside
the citation so they can continue their exploration.
Args:
query: Natural language search query
Input schema
{'type': 'object', 'title': 'searchArguments', 'required': ['query'], 'properties': {'query': {'type': 'string', 'title': 'Query'}}}
Output schema
{'type': 'object', '$defs': {'SearchResultItem': {'type': 'object', 'title': 'SearchResultItem', 'required': ['id', 'document_id', 'title', 'citation', 'url', 'authors', 'directors', 'publication_type', 'version', 'bluebook_citation', 'citation_note', 'chunk_type', 'page_number', 'printed_page', 'locator', 'section_heading', 'text', 'score'], 'properties': {'id': {'type': 'string', 'title': 'Id'}, 'url': {'anyOf': [{'type': 'string'}, {'type': 'null'}], 'title': 'Url'}, 'text': {'type': 'string', 'title': 'Text'}, 'score': {'type': 'number', 'title': 'Score'}, 'title': {'anyOf': [{'type': 'string'}, {'type': 'null'}], 'title': 'Title'}, 'authors': {'anyOf': [{'type': 'array', 'items': {'type': 'string'}}, {'type': 'null'}], 'title': 'Authors'}, 'locator': {'anyOf': [{'type': 'object', 'additionalProperties': True}, {'type': 'null'}], 'title': 'Locator'}, 'version': {'type': 'string', 'title': 'Version'}, 'citation': {'anyOf': [{'type': 'string'}, {'type': 'null'}], 'title': 'Citation'}, 'directors': {'anyOf': [{'type': 'array', 'items': {'type': 'string'}}, {'type': 'null'}], 'title': 'Directors'}, 'chunk_type': {'anyOf': [{'type': 'string'}, {'type': 'null'}], 'title': 'Chunk Type'}, 'document_id': {'type': 'string', 'title': 'Document Id'}, 'page_number': {'anyOf': [{'type': 'integer'}, {'type': 'null'}], 'title': 'Page Number'}, 'printed_page': {'anyOf': [{'type': 'integer'}, {'type': 'null'}], 'title': 'Printed Page'}, 'citation_note': {'anyOf': [{'type': 'string'}, {'type': 'null'}], 'title': 'Citation Note'}, 'section_heading': {'anyOf': [{'type': 'string'}, {'type': 'null'}], 'title': 'Section Heading'}, 'publication_type': {'anyOf': [{'type': 'string'}, {'type': 'null'}], 'title': 'Publication Type'}, 'bluebook_citation': {'anyOf': [{'type': 'string'}, {'type': 'null'}], 'title': 'Bluebook Citation'}}}}, 'title': 'SearchResponse', 'required': ['results', 'query'], 'properties': {'query': {'type': 'string', 'title': 'Query'}, 'results': {'type': 'array', 'items': {'$ref': '#/$defs/SearchResultItem'}, 'title': 'Results'}}}
History
Recent tool changes
Added
list_documents
Sept. 17, 2026, 12:54 p.m.
Added
fetch_document
Sept. 17, 2026, 12:54 p.m.
Added
fetch
Sept. 17, 2026, 12:54 p.m.
Added
search
Sept. 17, 2026, 12:54 p.m.
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