Spring 2010

Professors Rochelle Dreyfuss and Barton Beebe

Topic: 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.

Thursday, January 14

Bhaven Sampat, Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health
Institutional Innovation or Institutional Imitation? The Impacts of TRIPs on India's Patent Law and Practice

Thursday, January 28

Jane Anderson, Visiting Scholar, Institute for Law and Society, NYU; Expert Consultant, World Intellectual Property Organization
Discursive Disorder: Power, Authority and Politics in Indigenous Intellectual Property

Thursday, February 4

Margaret Chon, Seattle University School of Law
Global Intellectual Property Governance (Under Construction): Copyright and the Progress of Science

Thursday, February 25

Abraham Drassinower, University of Toronto Faculty of Law
What's Wrong with Copying?

Thursday, March 4

Chidi Oguamanam, Dalhousie Law School, Halifax Nova Scotia
Issues in the Global Governance of Intellectual Property

Thursday, March 11

Amy Kapczynski, UC Berkeley School of Law
Harmonization and Its Discontents: A Case Study of TRIPS Implementation in India's Pharmaceutical Sector

Thursday, March 25

Dev Gangjee, London School of Economics Department of Law
A Geology of Terroir: Geographical Indications and Collective Innovation

Tuesday, April 6

César Rodríguez-Garavito, University of The Andes, Bogota, Colombia
Constructing and Contesting the Global Intellectual Property Legal Field: The Struggle over Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines in Colombia

 

The Colloquium meets at NYU School of Law, Furman Hall, 245 Sullivan Street, room 120 from 4:00-6:00pm except for Professor Rodríguez-Garavito talk which will meet on Tuesday in Furman Hall, 245 Sullivan Street, room 324 from 4:00-6:00pm.

2 New York CLE Credits are available in the area of Professional Practice for each colloquium you attend.