Colloquium on Innovation Policy
Professors Rochelle Dreyfuss and Barton Beebe
Spring 2010
Tuesday and Thursday, 4:00-5:50 p.m.
Tuesday: Furman Hall, Room 324
Thursday: Furman Hall, Room 120
L12.3534.001
3 credits
The Colloquium on Innovation Policy focuses each year on a different aspect of the law's role in promoting creativity and invention. Topics have included open source and collaborative production, the history and economics of the intellectual property industries, the intersection between intellectual property and antitrust law, and international innovation policy. In 2010, we will explore the impact of international intellectual property obligations on development, including issues of access to medicine and education; emerging norms protecting local knowledge and cultural diversity; and the dynamics of participation in international norm building activities. The Colloquium has two components. In one, leading thinkers are invited to present recent work. In the other, we read background materials relevant to each speaker's presentation. 2 New York CLE Credits are available in the area of Professional Practice for each colloquium you attend.
Spring 2010 Schedule of Presenters
January 14
Bhaven Sampat, Columbia University, Department of Health Policy and Management
The Impact of TRIPS in India: Some Stylized Facts
January 28
Jane Anderson, Expert Consultant, WIPO; Visiting Scholar, NYU School of Law
Discursive Disorder: Power, Authority and Politics in Indigenous IP
February 4
Margaret Chon, Seattle University School of Law
Global Intellectual Property Governance (Under Construction): Copyright and the Progress of Science
February 25
Abraham Drassinower, University of Toronto Faculty of Law
What's Wrong with Copying?
March 4
Chidi Oguamanam, Dalhousie Law School, Halifax Nova Scotia
TBD
March 11
Amy Kapczynski, UC Berkeley School of Law
Harmonization and Its Limits: A Case Study of TRIPS Implementation in India's Pharmaceutical Sector
March 25
Dev Gangjee, London School of Economics, Department of Law
A Geology of Terror: Geographical Indications and the Recognition of Collective and Traditional Innovation
April 6
Cesar Rodriguez-Garavito
Constructing and Contesting the Global Intellectual Property Legal Field: Transnational Networks and the Struggle over Access to Medicines in Columbia
Questions about the Colloquium should be addressed to Nicole Arzt at nicole.arzt@nyu.edu or 212-998-6013.