International human rights law Part 8

BEYOND THEORIES: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY DYNAMICS IN THE GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY
Chidi Oguamanam
Wake Forest Journal of Business and Intellectual Property Law
Volume 9, Number 2, Spring 2009 p.104

This Article critically examines the inadequacy of theoretical postulates on intellectual property. It acknowledges that theorizing around intellectual property is an important ongoing but elusive intellectual adventure that is critical for law and policy direction on intellectual property. Perhaps, at no time is this fact more obvious than in the extant post-industrial epoch or the era of Global Knowledge Economy (” GKE” ). The latter is spurred by advances in bio- and digital technologies. Both phenomena drive significant shift and transition in intellectual property jurisprudence and in the tide of innovation from physical to life sciences. They also supervise implosions in new and complex domains or sites for knowledge and information generation. As its feature, the global knowledge economic order is supported by an institutional and structural shift in international intellectual property lawmaking and governance provoking a serendipitous counter-regime dynamic and diversification of sites for contestations around intellectual property. The pivotal role of intellectual property in the GKE presents intellectual property as an increasingly multidisciplinary subject with complex issue linkages in virtually all fronts including public health, human rights, biodiversity, biotechnology, biopiracy, the environment, ethics, culture, indigenous knowledge, electronic commerce, and research ethos. Overall, these and many more issue linkages to intellectual property are part of the latter’s open-ended dynamics in the GKE. They are constitutive of a myriad of factors that task and shape policy and theory on intellectual property as the knowledge economy continues to unravel.

Yogyakarta Principles on the Application of International human rights law in relation to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
Asia-Pacific Journal on Human Rights and the Law
Volume 9, Number 2, 2009 p.86-113

A New Answer to an Old Question: National Human Rights Institutions and the Domestication of International Law
Richard Carver
Human Rights Law Review
Volume 10, Number 1, March 2010 p.1-32

Human Rights and Genocide: The Work of Lauterpacht and Lemkin in Modern International Law
Ana Filipa Vrdoljak
European Journal of International law
Volume 20, Number 4, November 2009 p.1163-1194

International law and negotiating power in foreign investment projects: Comparing property rights protection under human rights and investment law in Africa
Lorenzo Cotula
South African Yearbook of International Law
Volume 33, 2008 p.62

Socioeconomic Rights and Refugee Status: Deepening the Dialogue Between Human Rights and Refugee Law Foster, Michelle. International Refugee Law and Socio-economic Rights: Refuge from Deprivation Fatma E. Marouf and Deborah Anker
American Journal of International Law
Volume 103, Number 4, October 2009 p.784

THE GOVERNMENT CONTRACTOR DEFENSE AND SUPERIOR ORDERS IN INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW
Jill M. Fraley
Florida A & M University Law Review
Volume 4, Number 1, Fall 2008/Spring 2009 p.43

Multiparty Democracy: International and European Human Rights Law Perspectives
JURE VIDMAR
Leiden Journal of International Law
Volume 23, Number 1, March 2010 p.209-240

Select Articles on International Human Rights, Torture, Cyber Law & E-Commerce
Meenakshi Bhan
Indian Journal of International Law
Volume 48, Number 4, October-December 2008 p.673

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