Professor Joan C. Williams “seeks to build bridges” across audiences and disciplines with her latest book, Reshaping the Work-Family Debate: Why Men and Class Matter. She also attempts to bridge seemingly insuperable chasms of gender and class, to encourage the formation of a political...

We live in a world of information. But paradoxically, we simultaneously suffer from a scarcity of “smart” information: information that is traceable and therefore reliable, trust-worthy, and ultimately verifiable. Combining the insights of global governance theory with behavioral economics,...

Front matter is available at: "https://ssrn.com/abstract=3219930" https://ssrn.com/abstract=3219930Through selective case studies, The Cambridge Handbook on Public-Private Partnerships, Intellectual Property Governance, and Sustainable Development addresses the multiple roles of public-private...

Trademarks and certification marks increasingly denote sustainability or social responsibility standards. These marks of rectitude are particularly noticeable in the context of global trade, where market integration is accompanied by relatively uneven integration of environmental, labor and...

Written for the Cambridge Handbook on International and Comparative Trademark Law (forthcoming), this chapter surveys US law and policy regarding certification marks and collective marks. It summarizes the current statutory framework and associated case law, then briefly posits some future...

"Public-private partnerships (PPPs) play an increasingly prominent role in addressing global development challenges. United Nations agencies and other organizations are relying on PPPs to improve global health, facilitate access to scientific information, and encourage the diffusion of climate...

Powerful brands dominate our transnational landscapes. Brand value — referred to in law as trademark goodwill — is co-created by trademark owners and the consumers of their products and services. Commonly defined as all possible sources of consumer patronage, trademark goodwill is critically...

Knowledge is sticky because it adheres to people along social routes, lodged within relational and collective modalities, as well as through copyright’s proverbial fixed works that can be transacted more freely. Sticky knowledge may in fact constitute a much larger body of knowledge than we...

Some intellectual property colleagues recently urged me to post this article on SSRN. I wrote it circa mid-90’s when information still wanted to be free and the predominant technology was still file transfer protocol. I suppose this piece has stood the test of time because it was one of the...

The promotion of national commerce through federal trademark law is closely aligned with the promotion of “Progress” through the federal copyright and patent statutes. All forms of intellectual property share larger goals of overall human flourishing, and not simply private economic benefit....