Innovation Law and Policy/ Law & Development Workshop
presents
Professor Margaret Chon
University of Seattle
Global Intellectual Property Governance (Under Construction)
Monday, January 31, 2011
12:30 – 2:00
Classroom A, Flavelle House
78 Queen’s Park
Top down as well as bottom-up models of regulation are shifting to a governance paradigm characterized by the greater interaction among public, private and civil society sectors, as well as potential increased flexibility of law. As applied to intellectual property, particularly in the international context, governance literature is emerging but still episodic. In this article, I examine the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Development Agenda, currently being implemented through its Committee on Development and Intellectual Property. WIPO’s efforts to address global development goals with intellectual property can be theorized through the more participatory and dynamic legal mechanisms promised by global governance. Among the challenges are fragmentation, policy incoherence and a relative lack of due process of softer law, as enacted and as enforced. The pragmatic impact of this major WIPO initiative evaluated both in terms of the projected benefits and risks of global governance remains to be seen.
Since joining the Seattle University faculty, Margaret Chon has been a dedicated teacher as well as a prolific scholar in both the regulation of knowledge and of race. She is currently the Associate Dean for Research, responsible for nurturing the law school faculty’s academic excellence and showcasing its rapidly growing scholarly reputation. Her current scholarship is a genre she characterizes as global intellectual property equality, focusing on the relationship of knowledge goods to the production of other global public goods.
A light lunch will be served.
For more workshop information, please contact Nadia Gulezko at n.gulezko@utoronto.ca.
