INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
MARCH 10, 2006
SCHEDULE
8:30 - 9:15 AM: Breakfast and Welcome by Dean Rex Perschbacher
9:15 - 10:15 AM: 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 AM: 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 PM: 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 PM: Lunch
1:30 - 2:30 PM: 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 PM: 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 PM: 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 PM: Reception