Property rights and contract law are two of our most basic legal categories. Many legal
scholars describe what makes them different; this Article describes how they work together …

This chapter provides the economic, social, and cultural forces at play. Economics will
provide the first set of analytical tools. The chapter discusses recent economic analyses of …

The present paper explores how intellectual property rights (IPR) protection affects an
economy's status in global value chains (GVC) by introducing IPR protection into the …

There is mounting evidence that current intellectual property (IP) rights laws are harming
those they purport to benefit by fencing off the intellectual commons to future creators …

This book will help readers better understand the ethical and cultural assumptions that both
American and Chinese business cultures bring to business relationships in China. It …

Jeremy Tarr first traveled to Guinea in May 1999, wanting to learn the traditional music and
arts of the Guinean people.'While there, he sought out and studied under Koumgbana …

Like many others I am extremely dismayed by what is happening in and to the world such as
the inequality and extreme poverty, climate change and the deterioration of our environment …

This Article argues that sound intellectual property policy requires not only that the
policymaker establish an appropriate incentive for invention 486but also that the …

Governments and scholars have for some time grappled with the question of whether there
is a connection between intellectual property (IP) and economic development, and if so, how …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to improve the measurement of nominal level and
actual strength of China's intellectual property protection (IPP), and examine whether the …