Handbook

This course takes an interdisciplinary and theoretical approach to examine: the history of intellectual property globalisation: governmental and NGO organisations involved in his process; political debates, alliances and ideologies that have shaped global intellectual property law-making; the economics of globalisation and intellectual property; and sociological, cultural and domestic legal effects of globalising through intellectual propertization.

Main Topics

• Introduction to the Globalisation of Intellectual Property Regulation
• History of Intellectual Propertisation and the Globalisation of Intellectual Property Regulation
• Non-Western Methods of Regulating Access to and Use of Ideas, Information, Knowledge and Symbols
• The Politics of Contemporary International Intellectual Property Regulation and Governance
• The Economics and Political Economy of Contemporary Intellectual Property Regulation
• The Sociology of Globalisation via International Intellectual Property Standardisation
• Issues in Intellectual Property Regulation in a Global Setting

         1. Sovereignty

         2. Legal Transplants

         3. Development

• Case Studies of Intellectual Property Regulation in a Global Setting:

          1. Copyright, Patents and Traditional Knowledge
          2. Patents and Access to Essential Medicines around the World
          3. Trademarks and Multinational Branding Practices

• The Cultural Impact of Globalising via the International Standardisation of Intellectual Property Laws
• Blending Theory and Practice in Domestic and International Intellectual Property Law- and Policy-Making