There is pressure from the developed world and indeed from within the under-developed/developing world to put in place IP regimes which are trade and investment friendly, and, primarily, based on western models of intellectual property rights, economic values and social organization. Pacific...

In the island countries of the south Pacific traditional knowledge informs access to, use and production of cultural artifacts, flora and fauna, medicines, plant stocks and the management of natural resources. All too often however, this indigenous knowledge is ignored by the intellectual...

In this paper we use a New Institutional analysis to diagnose the economic impact of French Colonial Institutions on New Caledonia. Motivated by the forthcoming selfdetermination referendum we are notably interested in the implications of removal of bilateral aid and other French public...

This chapter is about the relationship between law and development. More specifically, it is about statutory laws and economic development. The case study will be Palestine after Oslo. Statutory laws are used, in contemporary states or proto-state, as it is the case with the Palestinian...

This Article challenges a standard proposition in intellectual property theory: creators are risk averse and, by extension, IP risk is undesirable. The interdisciplinary field of creativity research suggests that this proposition is wrong. A willingness to take risks appears to be an essential...

Traditional patent law theories teach that a patent's rights of exclusion are a patent's key benefit to the patentee and are necessary to make the patent system work. Yet patentees are increasingly giving away such rights, in whole or in part, as part of a growing phenomenon: patent pledges. In...

Over the past two years, there has been a monumental shift in how U.S. professional sports leagues have perceived “daily fantasy sports.” Back in March 2013, the chief executive of Major League Baseball Advanced Media, Robert Bowman, told the New York Times that he perceived “daily fantasy...

This Article seeks to articulate the interests of information consumers in the era of Digital Rights Management Systems ("DRMs"). The impetus for this inquiry is the growing threat to the interests of information consumers in the digital age. Digital copies protected by DRMs enable rightholders...

A potential avalanche of “algorithmic fairness” regulations is looming that, if triggered, would thunder through our economy with one of the most significant expansions of economic and social regulation – and the power of the administrative state – in recent history. Federal and state...

E-commerce is overshadowing face-to-face (F2F) transactions in business-to-consumer (B2C) commerce. This benefits consumers in providing more buying options, but may leave them with no remedies when purchases go awry. This chapter therefore discusses how online dispute resolution (ODR) systems...