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List of contents
- Introduction
- 1: Tatiana Andia: Pharmaceutical Intellectual Property Rights Protection and Access to Medicines in Ecuador: State Sovereignty and Transnational Advocacy Networks
- 2: Paola Bergallo and Agustina Ramon Michel: The Recursivity of Global Lawmaking in the Struggle for an Argentine Policy on Pharmaceutical Patents
- 3: Angelina Snodgrass Godoy: CAFTA, Intellectual Property and the Right to Health in Central America
- 4: Salvador Millaleo: Balancing Wealth and Health: The Case of Chile
- 5: CÃ(c)sar RodrÃguez-Garavito: Constructing and Contesting the Global Intellectual Property Legal Field: The Struggle over Patent Rights and Access to Medicines in Colombia
- 6: Monica Steffen Guise and Adelina de Oliveira Novaes: Balancing Health and Wealth: The Case of Patents and Access to Medicines in Brazil
- 7: Laurence Helfer and Karen Alter: The Influence of the Andean Intellectual Property Regime on Access to Medicines in Latin America
- 8: Smita Narula: The Rights-Based Approach to Intellectual Property And Access To Medicine: Parameters and Pitfalls
- 9: Sean Flynn: Public Participation in US Special 301 Actions
- 10: Amy Kapczynski: Going Local: Downshifting in the Era of TRIPS Implementation
- 11: Molly Land: Applying Human Rights Law
- 12: Ruth Okediji: The Missing Role of WIPO
About the author
Rochelle C. Dreyfuss is the Pauline Newman Professor of Law at New York University School of Law and Director of the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy at NYU. She is a member of the American Law Institute and was a co-Reporter for its Project on Intellectual Property: Principles Governing Jurisdiction, Choice of Law, and Judgments in Transnational Disputes.
CÃ(c)sar RodrÃguez-Garavito is Associate Professor and Director of the Program on Global Justice and Human Rights at the University of los Andes (Colombia). He is a founding member of the Center for Law, Justice, and Society (Dejusticia), and the co-director of the Global School on Socio-Economic Rights. He serves in the Editorial Board of the Annual Review of Law and Social Science.
Summary
This book examines the tension between intellectual property law and access to medicine in a set of developing countries caught between their international trade obligations and their commitment to the health of their citizens. It presents case studies, conducted with a common methodology, in eleven Latin American countries.
