Book Launch: Intellectual Property Law and Access to Medicines: TRIPS Agreement, Health and Pharmaceuticals

Online Conference – November ​23, 2021 
13:00 – ​17:00 GMT
7:00 – 11:00 am U.S. Central Standard Time

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This virtual conference brings together scholars, activists, policymakers, and industry actors to examine a wide variety of cross-cutting legal issues on intellectual property, pharmaceutical and trade law in the edited volume Intellectual Property Law and Access to Medicines: TRIPS Agreement, Health, and Pharmaceuticals  (Routledge, 2021). It is jointly organized by the Centre for Business Law and Practice at the School of Law, University of Leeds, UK and the Center for Law and Intellectual Property at Texas A&M University School of Law, USA. The virtual conference is also co-sponsored by the Faculty of Law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Agenda

13:00 Welcoming Addresses Introducing the Book

  • Sri Ragavan, Texas A&M University School of Law
  • Amaka Vanni, University of Leeds, UK

13:20 Keynote Address

  • Antony Taubman, Director, Intellectual Property, Government Procurement & Competition Division, World Trade Organization

13:30 Changes in International Norm Setting Post-COVID

  • Chairs: Srividhya Ragavan and Peter Yu, Texas A&M University School of Law
  • Panelists
    • Bryan Mercurio, Chinese University of Hong Kong
    • Antony Taubman, World Trade Organization
    • Carlos Correa, South Centre, Geneva
    • Burcu Kilic, Research Director, Public Citizen, Washington D.C.

14: 30 Break

14:45 G20, State Action and Global Public Health

  • Chairs: Graham Dutfield & Amaka Vanni, University of Leeds
  • Panelists
    • Jorge Bermudez, National School of Public Health (Fiocruz), Brazil
    • Caroline Ncube, University of Cape Town, South Africa
    • Michael Palmedo, American University Washington College of Law

15:45 Break

16:00 WTO in Post COVID Era

  • Chairs: Doris Long, University of Illinois Chicago and Brook Baker, Northeastern University
  •  Panelists
    • Peter Yu, Texas A&M University School of Law
    • Susan Isiko Strba, International Lawyers and Economists for Development (IlED)
    • Janewa Osei-Tutu, Florida International University
    • Marcela Vieira, The Graduate Institute, Geneva

17: 00 Closing Remarks

  • Srividhya Ragavan, Texas A&M University School of Law


About the Author

  • Assistant Director for Interdisciplinary Research at American University Washington College of Law’s Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property; and Shamnad Basheer IP/Trade Fellowship with Texas A&M University School of Law.