Development International Law – Part 23

Compensation Versus Colonization: A Common Heritage Approach to the Use of Indigenous Medicine in Developing Western Pharmaceuticals
John L. Trotti
Food and Drug Law Journal
Volume 56, Issue 3, 2001 p.367-384

Recently, pharmaceutical companies have turned to the abundant and diverse plant life of developing countries in search of natural compounds with powerful healing properties. To cut costs and streamline research, these companies rely increasingly on indigenous peoples and their remedies to locate naturally occurring medicinal compounds. This valuable cooperation, however, often goes unrewarded. Critics argue that the lack of patent protection for indigenous remedies under the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property agreement (TRIPS) fosters this dynamic. As such, these critics view TRIPS as an imperialistic Codification of Western notions of property rights and technology. Thus, some advocate reforms for patent regimes. Instead of uncritically accepting patent rights as the solution to compensation for use of indigenous medicine in Western drug development, the international community should develop a common heritage approach similar to Part XI of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea .

The 1999 Eritrea-Yemen Maritime Delimitation Award And The Development of International Law
Nuno Sérgio Marques Antunes
International and Comparative Law Quarterly
Volume 50, Number 2, April 2001 p.299-344

Commentary: In Response to the Paper by Ellen Hey, The Climate Change Regime Sustainable Development and International Administrative law in the Making (see pp. 75-100)
William R. Moomaw
International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics
Volume 1, Number 1, March 2001 p.101-102

Corporate Governance in Korea at the Millennium: Enhancing International Competitiveness
Bernard Black, Barry Metzger, Timothy J. O’Brien, Young Moo Shin, & International Development Law Institute with an introduction to the Report by Bernard Black
Journal of Corporation Law
Volume 26, Number 3, Spring 2001 p.537

The Influence of Religion on the Development of International Law, edited by Mark W. Janis & Carolyn Evans
Roger P. Alford
Journal of Law and Religion
Volume 16, Number 2, 2001 p.595

The Development and Incorporation of International Norms in the Formation of Copyright Law
Graeme B. Dinwoodie
Ohio State law Journal
Volume 62, Number 2, 2001 p.733

The ‘constitutionalization’ of International trade law : judicial norm-generation as the engine of constitutional development in international trade
DZ Cass
European Journal of International law
Volume 12, Number 1, February 2001 p.39-75

Towards the Development of an Effective System of Universal Jurisdiction for Crimes Under International Law
Bruce Broomhall
New England Law Review
Volume 35, Number 2, Winter 2001 p.399

ENERGY AND INTERNATIONAL LAW: DEVELOPMENT, LITIGATION, AND REGULATION – Symposium Transcript
Texas International Law Journal
Volume 36, Number 1, Winter 2001 p.1

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Administrative law, Codification, Development International Law, International trade law, State law, United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.