Peter K. Yu
Associate Professor of Law and Director,
Intellectual Property and Communications Law Program, Michigan State University
College of Law; Core Faculty, Asian Studies Center, Adjunct Professor of
Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media, Michigan State University.
Articles by this Author
The International Enclosure Movement
- By Peter K. Yu
- Published 10/5/2007
- Volume 82, Issue 4
Professor Yu's article takes access to medicine
in developing countries as its central example to describe how U.S./E.U./W.T.O.
treaty requirements—specifically, that developing countries adopt a
westernized/modern IP law regime—restricts those countries in their responses
to internal health emergencies. The piece suggests that countries should be
given policy space to adopt things like compulsory licenses that would keep the
prices of drugs down while still respecting multinational pharmaceutical companies'
intellectual property rights. The author is a leading scholar in International
IP law, and is currently writing a casebook based on the same research that led
to this Article.
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