Intellectual Property and Social Justice
2006 Law Review Symposium
UC Davis School of Law
Program for Friday, March 10, 2006
| 8:30 - 9:15 a.m. | Breakfast and Welcome by Dean Rex Perschbacher |
| 9:15 - 10:15 a.m. | Developing Drugs for the Developing World William Fisher III and Talha Syed - Harvard Law School Why We Should Reform Developed Nations- Drug Innovation Systems to Address the Health Crisis in the Developing World James Love - Consumer Project on Technology Changing the Dynamics of Global Trade Discussions: The Medical Innovation Prize Fund and the Medical R&D Treaty Commentator: Robert Merges - Boalt Hall School of Law |
| 10:15 - 11:15 a.m. | Distributive Justice and Intellectual Property Keith Aoki - University of Oregon School of Law Distributive and Utilitarian Goals in Intellectual Property Law (with Special Reference to Coercion, Agency and Development) Maggie Chon - Seattle University School of Law Intellectual Property From Below: Copyright and the Provision of Textbooks in Developing Countries Commentator: Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss - NYU School of Law |
| 11:30 - 12:30 p.m. | Openness and Exclusivity in Intellectual Property Shubha Ghosh - Southern Methodist University Exclusivity and the Construction of Intellectual Property Markets Andrew Rens - Creative Commons Knowledge in an Open Society Commentator: Rosemary Coombe - York University |
| 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. | Lunch |
| 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. | International Rights Approaches to Intellectual Property Larry Helfer - Vanderbilt University Law School Human Rights and Intellectual Property: New Conflicts or New Opportunities? Peter Yu - Michigan State University College of Law Toward the Development of Intellectual Property Protection Through the Sustainable Development Paradigm Commentator: Kal Raustiala - UCLA School of Law |
| 2:30 - 3:30 p.m. | Copyright and Creativity Julie Cohen - Georgetown University Law Center A Social Theory of Creativity Siva Vaidhyanathan - NYU The Googlization of Everything: The Potential of Google's Library Project Commentators: Molly Van Houweling - Boalt Hall School of Law, Leslie Kurtz - University of California at Davis Law School |
| 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. | Plenary Session Moderated by Madhavi Sunder Keith Aoki - University of Oregon School of Law Jack Balkin - Yale Law School Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss - NYU School of Law William Fisher III - Harvard Law School James Love - Consumer Project on Technology Robert Merges - Boalt Hall School of Law Pam Samuelson - Boalt Hall School of Law |
| 6:00 - 7:00 p.m. | Reception |