TRIPS and Developing Countries: Towards a New IP World Order? - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1849804850 ISBN 13: 9781849804851

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2014

Synopsis

TRIPS reflects the dominant view that enforcing strong intellectual property rights is necessary to solve problems of trade and development. The global ensemble of authors in this collection ask, how can TRIPS mature further into an institution that supports a view of economic development which incorporates the human rights ethic already at work in the multilateralist geopolitics driving international relations? In particular, how can these human rights, seen as encompassing a whole 'new' set of collective interests such as public health, environment, and nutrition, provide a pragmatic ethic for shaping development policy? Some chapters address these questions by describing recent successes, while others propose projects in which these human rights can provide ethical ground for influencing the forces at play in development policies.

This stimulating book will strongly appeal to policy makers, academics, and students seeking to understand how the 'new' human rights can inform efforts to reconfigure intellectual property rights as an engine for fair and just economic development.

Contributors: L. Briceno Moraia, J.L. Contreras, L. Dong, G. Ghidini, A. Kur, M. Land, M. Levin, D. Matthews, C.R. McManis, J. Odek, R.J.R. Peritz, H. Rangel-Ortiz, M. Ricolfi

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About the Author

Edited by Gustavo Ghidini, Professor Emeritus, University of Milan and Senior Professor of Intellectual Property and Competition Law, LUISS University, Rome, Italy, the late Rudolph J.R. Peritz, formerly Professor and Director, IProgress Project, New York Law School, US and Marco Ricolfi, Professor of Intellectual Property Law, University of Turin and Tosetto Weigmann and Associati, Turin and Milan, Italy

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1849804850
• ISBN 13: 9781849804851
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: Ghidini Gustavo, Peritz Rudolph J.R., Ricolfi Marco