April 17, 2017
Why does IP law require a critical race lens today? IP law requires a critical race lens today because the very foundations of intellectual property –conceptualizations of property, of possession, of artistic expression – cannot be understood apart from the historical alignment between whiteness and property rights, as Cheryl Harris so persuasively argued in her […]
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April 16, 2017
How does your work contribute to re-imagining IP in the twenty first century? I am interested in tracing institutional forms and systems in global intellectual property legal regimes following earlier periods of decolonization and intensive national identity formation. The current arguably post-Westphalian period—what Sally Engle Merry has described in a slightly different context as spatial […]
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April 15, 2017
Why does IP law require a critical race lens today? The law is never neutral. For critical observers, this is to state the obvious; for everyone else, this is too often a surprise. Legislatures strive to produce laws that apply to all in an equal manner; courts constantly guide themselves to adjudicate like cases alike. […]
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April 14, 2017
We asked our plenary speakers to send in their thoughts on any three of the following five questions. Why does IP law require a critical race lens today? How do you hope to advance the discourse of race and IP through your work? How does your work contribute to re-imagining IP in the twenty first […]
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