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