Intellectual Property in Global Governance

This book explores the intellectual property dynamics in the "Global Knowledge Economy" focusing on digitization and information revolution phenomenon and the concept of a post-industrial society in order to articulate an agenda for global governance of intellectual property law in the twenty-first century.

Chidi Oguamanam is a Professor in the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, Canada and formerly the Director of the Law and Technology Institute at the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S., Canada.

Part I: 1. Introduction and Outlook 2. Global Governance, Intellectual Property and the Knowledge Economy 3. Global Governance Structures and Regime Dynamics in Intellectual Property Part II: 4. Human Rights in the New Intellectual Property Dynamic 5. Intellectual Property and the Political Economics of Agriculture Part III: 6. Traditional/Indigenous Knowledge in the Global Governance of Intellectual Property 7. Traditional Cultural Expressions, Expressions of Folklore, and Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage 8. Managing Intellectual Property in Global Governance