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The Outsized Costs of Investor–State Dispute Settlement [AIB Insights Vol 16 No 1 (2016 Q1)]

AIB Insights Vol. 16, No. 1 The negoTiaTion of several mega-TreaTies in 2015, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), and other regional agreements, has generated substantial public discussion about the protections and privileges afforded to multinational enterpris...

A Corporate Veto on Health Policy? Global Constitutionalism and Investor-State Dispute Settlement.

The importance of trade and investment agreements for health is now widely acknowledged in the literature, with much attention now focused on the impact of investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) mechanisms. However, much of the analysis of such agreements in the health field remains largely descriptive. We theorize the implications of ISDS mechanisms for health policy by integrating the conce...

The Economics of International Agreements and Dispute Settlement with IPRs

offences against intellectual property in penal law of iran and in international laws

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Intellectual Property: The Law and Economics Approach

T he traditional focus of economic analysis of intellectual property has been on reconciling incentives for producing such property with concerns about restricting access to it by granting exclusive rights in intellectual goods—that is, by “propertizing” them—thus enabling the owner to charge a price for access that exceeds marginal cost. For example, patentability provides an additional incent...