Globalisation, Legal Ideas, and the Creation of Canada's Access to Medicines Regime

Autor:	Derek McKee
Rok vydání:	2013
Předmět:	International trade law Globalization Politics General theory Law Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory Sociology Legal scholarship Intellectual property Access to medicines Law and economics
Zdroj:	Transnational Legal Theory. 4:607-626
ISSN:	2041-4013 2041-4005
DOI:	10.5235/20414005.4.4.607
Popis:	William Twining describes the impact of globalisation on legal scholarship but laments the absence of a general theory. I argue that there are grounds to be more optimistic about legal scholarship's ability to respond to globalisation. In particular, the realist tradition offers a set of conceptual tools and analytic techniques that can be used to explore the economic, social and cultural dimensions of law. I illustrate the use of these tools and techniques in a study of Canada's Access to Medicines Regime (CAMR), a law reform ostensibly meant to allow Canadian companies to export generic medicines to countries in the Global South. I suggest that CAMR was shaped by certain understandings of international trade law and of intellectual property rights, which had become naturalised, taken-for-granted features of Canadian political discourse. Access to medicines advocates' failure to reform CAMR can be partly attributed to their failure to challenge these legal ideas.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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