Balancing Wealth and Health: The Battle over Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines in Latin America...

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Rochelle Dreyfuss (Pauline Newman Professor of Law, Pauline Newman Professor of Law, New York University) César Rodríguez-Garavito (Director, Program on Global Justice and Human Rights, Director, Program on Global Justice and Human Rights, University of los Andes)

Balancing Wealth and Health

The Battle over Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines in Latin America

Rochelle Dreyfuss (Pauline Newman Professor of Law, Pauline Newman Professor of Law, New York University), César Rodríguez-Garavito (Director, Program on Global Justice and Human Rights, Director, Program on Global Justice and Human Rights, University of los Andes)

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Oxford University Press
10 January 2014

International human rights law; International organisations & institutions; Intellectual property law; Regulation of medicines & medical devices

Series: Law And Global Governance

This book focusses on the debates concerning aspects of intellectual property law that bear on access to medicines in a set of developing countries. Specifically, the contributors look at measures that regulate the acquisition, recognition, and use of patent rights on pharmaceuticals and trade secrets in data concerning them, along with the conditions under which these rights expire so as to permit the production of cheaper generic drugs. In addition, the book includes commentary from scholars in human rights, international institutions, and transnational activism. The case studies presented from 11 Latin American countries, have many commonalities in terms of economics, legal systems, and political histories, and yet they differ in the balance each has struck between proprietary interests and access concerns. The book documents this cross-country variation in legal norms and practice, identifies the factors that have led to differences in result, and theorizes as to how differentials among these countries occur and why they endure within a common transnational regulatory regime.

The work concludes by putting the results of the investigations into a global administrative law frame and offers suggestions on institutional mechanisms for considering the trade-offs between health and wealth.

Edited by: Rochelle Dreyfuss (Pauline Newman Professor of Law Pauline Newman Professor of Law New York University), César Rodríguez-Garavito (Director, Program on Global Justice and Human Rights, Director, Program on Global Justice and Human Rights, University of los Andes)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 241mm, Width: 162mm, Spine: 29mm
Weight: 694g
ISBN: 9780199676743
ISBN 10: 0199676747
Series: Law And Global Governance
Pages: 370
Publication Date: 10 January 2014
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

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. César Rodríguez-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.