In this thought-provoking analysis, the author takes three examples of emerging markets (Brazil, India, and Nigeria) and tells their stories of pharmaceutical patent law-making.
Adopting historiographical and socio-legal approaches, focus is drawn to the role of history, social networks and how relationships between a variety of actors shape the framing of, and subsequently the responses to, national implementation of international patent law. In doing so, the book reveals why the experience of Nigeria - a country active in opposing the inclusion of IP to the WTO framework during the Uruguay Rounds - is so different from that of Brazil and India.
This book makes an original and useful contribution to the further understanding of how both states and non-state actors conceptualise, establish and interpret pharmaceutical patents law, and its domestic implications on medicines access, public health and development.
Patent Games in the Global South was awarded the 2018 SIEL-Hart Prize in International Economic Law.
Marceau, Gabrielle: - "
Appointed as a lecturer in 2000, Gabrielle Marceau, PhD, became an associate professor in the Department of Public International Law and International Organization at the Faculty of Law at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) in 2005. She teaches World Trade Organization (WTO) law, supervises numerous master's theses and doctoral dissertations, and organizes conferences and research seminars. She also created a doctoral seminar.
She is also visiting professor at the University of Ottawa, Law Faculty - Hyman Soloway Chair, and at other institutions. Professor Marceau serves on several scientific councils promoting international economic law. She has been the president of the Society of International Economic Law, is a member of the board of directors of the Geneva Society for Law and Legislation, and is a Counsellor of the American Society of International Law. Professor Marceau is a specialist in dispute settlement and the legal relationships between international trade and non-commercial considerations (such as environment, human rights, labor, etc.), with more than 125 publications to her name.
Gabrielle Marceau has also worked at the World Trade Organization for over 30 years, serving as a legal adviser in international disputes, in the Cabinet of Director-General Pascal Lamy, and in the Economic Research and Statistics Division."
Ortino, Federico: - Federico Ortino is a Reader in International Economic Law at King's College London, UK.
Schefer, Krista Nadakavukaren: - Krista Nadakavukaren Schefer is Vice Director at the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, Switzerland.
Shaffer, Gregory: - Gregory Shaffer is the Scott K Ginsburg Professor of International Law at Georgetown University Law Center, USA.
Vanni, Amaka: - Dr. Amaka Vanni is a legal scholar and documentary filmmaker based in Lagos, Nigeria. Her work lies at the intersection of international economic law, development, and global governance. Her research and teaching are on topics of intellectual property, international trade, global health, philantrocapitalism, gender, legal theory and history, human right and the impact of colonialism on various aspect of postcolonial societies. She completed an undergraduate degree in International Relations and Politics at Keele University, UK. She holds a Masters in Law degree in International Economic Law and completed a doctorate in same field from the University of Warwick. Her doctoral thesis won the 2018 SIEL-Hart Prize in International Economic Law.
