Balancing Wealth and Health

by Dreyfuss, Rochelle; Rodriguez-Garavito, Cesar

• ISBN13: 9780199676743
• ISBN10: 0199676747
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-05-13
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Rochelle Dreyfuss, Pauline Newman Professor of Law, New York University,Cesar Rodriguez-Garavito, Director, Program on Global Justice and Human Rights, University of los Andes

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.

Cesar Rodriguez-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.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Rochelle Dreyfuss and Cesar Rodriguez-Garavito
1. Pharmaceutical Intellectual Property Rights Protection and Access to Medicines in Ecuador: State Sovereignty and Transnational Advocacy Networks, Tatiana Andia
2. The Recursivity of Global Lawmaking in the Struggle for an Argentine Policy on Pharmaceutical Patents, Paola Bergallo & Agustina Ramon Michel
3. CAFTA, Intellectual Property and the Right to Health in Central America, Angelina Snodgrass Godoy
4. Balancing Wealth and Health: The Case of Chile, Salvador Millaleo
5. Constructing and Contesting the Global Intellectual Property Legal Field: The Struggle over Patent Rights and Access to Medicines in Colombia, Cesar Rodriguez-Garavito
6. Balancing Health and Wealth: The Case of Patents and Access to Medicines in Brazil, Monica Steffen Guise & Adelina de Oliveira Novaes
7. The Influence of the Andean Intellectual Property Regime on Access to Medicines in Latin America, Laurence Helfer and Karen Alter
8. The Rights-Based Approach to Intellectual Property And Access To Medicine: Parameters and Pitfalls, Smita Narula
9. Public Participation in US Special 301 Actions, Sean Flynn
10. Going Local: Downshifting in the Era of TRIPS Implementation, Amy Kapczynski
11. Applying Human Rights Law, Molly Land
12. The Missing Role of WIPO, Ruth Okediji