L’accès au savoir en Afrique : Le rôle du droit d’auteur
Ce livre, L’accès au savoir en Afrique : Le rôle du droit d’auteur, permet de mieux saisir les enjeux juridiques et pratiques que posent les droits d’auteur pour l’accès au matériel didactique en Afrique et cerne les leçons apprises, les politiques et les pratiques susceptibles d’améliorer cet accès. L’émergence d’Internet et de l’univers numérique a […]
Network Governance of Biofuels: Can Policymakers Coordinate Multi-level Regulation?
“Network Governance of Biofuels” promotes a regulation and governance framework for biofuels that, while not necessarily simpler, let alone harmonized, is more coordinated and better rationalized. The analysis in this working paper is presented in two major sections, following a more detailed discussion in this introduction of key policy objectives for biofuels. First is an overview […]
Free Trade, Federalism & Technology Policy: A Public Lecture
This public lecture and accompanying presentation, explained how free trade, federalism, and technology policy are integrally linked. Among the core challenges is implementing the intellectual property provisions of international trade agreements, such as the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) in federal systems, a topic I’ve researched and written about extensively during my co-leadership of the […]
Implementing the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Development Agenda
The Development Agenda presents a real opportunity to revolutionize the international governance of intellectual property law and policy…
The Future of the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Development Agenda
Will WIPO’s “Development Agenda” be a game-changer for the global knowledge economy, or will it fail to bring about fundamental reforms? That’s the question that I convened a group of academics, diplomats, activists, and industry experts to answer at a retreat outside of Geneva in 2010. The Development Agenda for the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) was […]
Implementing WIPO’s Development Agenda in North Africa and the Middle East
The World Intellectual Property Organization invited me to speak about my trade and development research, specifically my book Implementing the WIPO’s Development Agenda, during an outreach and capacity-building seminar in Tunis, Tunisia. It was surprising (though in hindsight, it shouldn’t have been) that most of the representatives from WIPO’s Arab country member states had not even heard […]
