International Law and Indigenous Knowledge
Subtitle: Intellectual Property, Plant Biodiversity, and Traditional Medicine
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: October 15, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780802039026
Subjects: Crime & criminology; International Law; Legal Reference / Law Profession; Law; International; Law / International; Intellectual Property - General; Indigenous peoples; Intellectual property (International law); Law and legislation; Legal status, laws, etc; Traditional ecological knowledge
Description: "In this book, Chidi Oguamanam argues that the crisis of legitimacy that indigenous knowledge poses for the intellectual property system calls for a rethinking of the intellectual property jurisprudence in a cross-cultural direction." "Oguamanan's study draws from interdisciplinary research in the social and medical sciences. It uses as its framework of analysis the legal doctrinal methodology, focusing on international legal and policy developments regarding the protection of indigenous knowledge, with emphasis on plant biodiversity as the mainstay of indigenous or traditional medicinal knowledge."--Jacket.