Intellectual Property & Human Rights (LAW-962-001)
Flynn
Meets: 03:00 PM - 05:50 PM (T) - Room 504
Enrolled: 14 / Limit: 17
Notices
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Description
This course examines the globalization of intellectual property rules through the lenses of human rights law and development policy. The course will study how different intellectual property frameworks possess the capacity to overcome or perpetuate global inequality, underdevelopment, and access to essential goods and services. Topics in the course will include: examination of the WTO agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), access to medicines, access to knowledge, genetic resources and "biopiracy," traditional knowledge, traditional culture and folklore, copyright and free expression, and intellectual property social movements. Guest speakers will be invited from non-profit organizations that work on global information and intellectual property policy. The final project for the course will be a paper of publishable quality. During the course, we will spend significant time in workshops covering the mechanics of producing a paper of publishable quality, including how to choose a paper topic, using templates to create a professional appearance, organizing the article, editing, peer-critique, and getting published. Students may use the paper to satisfy WCL's writing requirement. Each year, approximately a third of the class has a paper accepted for publication in a law review.
Textbooks and Other Materials
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First Class Readings
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