A Neofederalist Vision of TRIPS

"The crowning achievement of a more than a decade of incisive scholarly analysis by two leading scholars of intellectual property law and policy, A Neofederalist Vision of TRIPS offers an astute and balanced prescription for the future of the international intellectual property system. Suffused with insightful analysis and diverse examples, the authors tackle the core challenge facing lawmakers and adjudicators alike-promoting a global innovation regime that preserves space for national experimentation and accommodates competing interests and values." --Lawrence R. Helfer, Harry R. Chadwick, Sr. Professor of Law, Co-Director, Center for International & Comparative Law, Duke University School of Law "In this innovative analysis of the normative and institutional architecture of the TRIPS Agreement, Professors Dinwoodie and Dreyfuss offer specialists and novices alike a remarkably cogent and insightful framework in which to assess the inevitable tensions arising from the array of values that inform national and supranational intellectual property rules and processes. They provide readers a doctrinally satisfying and structurally sound exposition of the various modes of interaction between the WTO, WIPO and national governments, and the potential for a global intellectual property acquis that both promotes innovation and respects cultural and social distinctions between nation states. This book is a 'must read' and a 'must have' for any serious student of the international intellectual property system." --Ruth L. Okediji, University of Minnesota Law School "Professors Dreyfuss and Dinwoodie have given us a uniquely insightful and illuminating book on the meaning of the TRIPS Agreement. Their Neo-Federalist approach could become the key to the long-term stability and success of that same Agreement. It should be required reading for everyone working in this field, especially for judges sitting on WTO dispute-settlement panels and the Appellate Body." --Jerome Reichman, Duke Law School "This book is an extraordinarily valuable addition to the complex debate about international intellectual properly. The analytical depth of this book and its authors' understanding of how international intellectual property norms interact with domestic laws makes this an important resource for policy makers, scholars and students of intellectual property. The authors provide the reader with a thoroughly analyzed and detailed vision of international intellectual property and, consequently, with an invaluable tool and an important resource for those interested in the future of innovation and creativity." --Susy Frankel, Professor of Law, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand; Director of New Zealand Centre of International Economic Law "Professors Dinwoodie and Dreyfuss's recent book, A Neofederalist Vision of Trips, is an important and exciting new addition to debates about international intellectual property governance... With this book, Dinwoodie and Dreyfuss have moved the discussion about global intellectual property regulation forward in significant and important ways, providing detailed analysis of new local innovations, focusing attention on the structural features of the TRIPS agreement, and generating new proposals for resolving conflicts of authority and norms both internal and external to the TRIPS regime. It would be a highly valuable read for anyone who works in the field of inernational intellectual property." --The IP Law Book Review