Patent Games in the Global South - Pharmaceutical Patent Law-Making in Brazil, India and Nigeria

In this thought-provoking analysis, the author takes three examples of emerging markets (Brazil, India, and Nigeria) and tells their stories of pharmaceutical patent law-making. Adopting historiographical and socio-legal approaches, focus is drawn to the role of history, social networks and how relationships between a variety of actors shape the framing of, and subsequently the responses to, national implementation of international patent law. In doing so, the book reveals why the experience of Nigeria - a country active in opposing the inclusion of IP to the WTO framework during the Uruguay Rounds - is so different from that of Brazil and India. This book makes an original and useful contribution to the further understanding of how both states and non-state actors conceptualise, establish and interpret pharmaceutical patents law, and its domestic implications on medicines access, public health and development. P nt Games in the Global South was awarded the 2018 SIEL-Hart Prize in International Economic Law.>

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• Authors: Amaka Vanni, Amaka (Legal Scholar and Documentary Filmma Vanni, Amaka (Legal Scholar and Documentary Filmmaker) Vanni, Dr Amaka Vanni
• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781509927395
• ISBN: 978-1-5099-2739-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Studies in International Trade; Studies in International Trade and Investment Law
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; LAW / International, LAW / Public, LAW / Commercial / International Trade, LAW / Intellectual Property / Patent, International Law, International economic & trade law, Public international law: economic and trade, Patents law