Document Type
Book Chapter
Book Authors/Editors
Irene Calboli and Maria Lilla Montagnani
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication Date
2021
Abstract
This chapter traces the emergence of Critical Race Intellectual Property (CRTIP) as a distinct area of study and activism that builds on the work of Critical Legal Studies and Critical Intellectual Property scholars. Invested in the workings of power - but with particular intersectional attentiveness to race - Critical Intellectual Property works to imagine new, often more socially just, forms of knowledge produce. In this brief chapter, we lay out the origins of Critical Race Theory (CRT) and its central methods, articulate a vision of CRT, and contemplate how CRT's interdisciplinary and transnational methods might apply to intellectual property. In accomplishing the latter, we use India's commitments to access to knowledge in the recent Delhi University copyshop case and controversy over Novartis's drug Gleevec to show how CRT's central insights can open possibilities for reading intellectual property law with attunement to structures of racial power.
Recommended Citation
Anjali Vats & Deidre A. Keller,
Critical Race Theory as Intellectual Property Methodology,
Intellectual Property Research
(2021).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.pitt.edu/fac_book-chapters/38
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