Balancing Wealth and Health

Rochelle C. Dreyfuss is the Pauline Newman Professor of Law at New York University School of Law and Director of the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy at NYU. She is a member of the American Law Institute and was a co-Reporter for its Project on Intellectual Property: Principles Governing Jurisdiction, Choice of Law, and Judgments in Transnational Disputes. César Rodríguez-Garavito is Associate Professor and Director of the Program on Global Justice and Human Rights at the University of los Andes (Colombia). He is a founding member of the Center for Law, Justice, and Society (Dejusticia), and the co-director of the Global School on Socio-Economic Rights. He serves in the Editorial Board of the Annual Review of Law and Social Science.

Introduction ; 1. Pharmaceutical Intellectual Property Rights Protection and Access to Medicines in Ecuador: State Sovereignty and Transnational Advocacy Networks ; 2. The Recursivity of Global Lawmaking in the Struggle for an Argentine Policy on Pharmaceutical Patents ; 3. CAFTA, Intellectual Property and the Right to Health in Central America ; 4. Balancing Wealth and Health: The Case of Chile ; 5. Constructing and Contesting the Global Intellectual Property Legal Field: The Struggle over Patent Rights and Access to Medicines in Colombia ; 6. Balancing Health and Wealth: The Case of Patents and Access to Medicines in Brazil ; 7. The Influence of the Andean Intellectual Property Regime on Access to Medicines in Latin America ; 8. The Rights-Based Approach to Intellectual Property And Access To Medicine: Parameters and Pitfalls ; 9. Public Participation in US Special 301 Actions ; 10. Going Local: Downshifting in the Era of TRIPS Implementation ; 11. Applying Human Rights Law ; 12. The Missing Role of WIPO