Creating Property Rights

Arguing that many economic rights granted by the modern regulatory state--e.g., the awarding of government contracts, occupational licenses and franchises, the use of publicly-owned resources--constit

Lokganathan (Kongu Arts and Science College, India) explains the primary provisions defined in the trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights (TRIPS) agreement enacted by the WTO in 1995 an

Property Rights and Social Justice analyses 'progressive property' in action by examining the role of constitutional property rights guarantees in mediating private ownership and social justice. It combines insights from property theory with enlightening doctrinal analysis of the interaction between property rights and social justice in the constitutional and broader legal context. It does so through the prism of the Irish Constitution's property guarantees, which uniquely in the English-speaking, common law world both protect property rights and requires their regulation by the State to secure social justice. Through this analysis, the book grounds key debates in contemporary property theory in fresh, illuminating doctrinal examples, and enhances global debates about the constitutional protection of property rights. It argues that primacy is perhaps inevitably afforded to political determinations about the appropriate mediation of property rights and social justice, meaning that the p

Examines how our diverse understandings of property impact real-world governing strategies.

Over the past three decades, China has transformed itself from a stagnant, inward, centrally planned economy into an animated, outward-looking, decentralized market economy. Its rapid growth and trade

About this book: Employees’ Intellectual Property Rights describes and analyses employers’ acquisition of employees’ intellectual property rights in thirty-four different jurisdictio

This collection of essays aims to widen our understanding of property rights by shifting attention towards social and cultural history. The themes covered are at the forefront of current work in econo

Property rights; the foundation of everyone's wealth, prosperity, dreams and ambition. There is intellectual property, real property, life, limb and liberty property, religions property, etc.These rig

Property Rights: Philosophic Foundations, first published in 1977, comprehensively examines the general justifications for systems of private property rights, and discusses with great clarity the majo

Providing a comprehensive and systematic commentary on the nature of overlapping Intellectual Property rights and their place in practice, this book is a major contribution to the way that IP is under

This book considers the issue of biodiversity in developing countries in relation to intellectual-property rights, community rights and human rights. Drawing together a number of case studies of devel

This work collects eight papers from a conference held in October 2009 and organized by the Technical University of Dresden's Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition, and Media Law, in cooper

"We need to seamlessly integrate IPR in the standard graduate/post graduate courses in science, technology, commerce, creative arts, etc., without over burdening the students with law"—Dr Prabud

This Guide is a detailed overview of all aspects of IPR and protection in China. Produced in association with AWS, the Austrian Federal Bank's specialist IPR unit based in Shanghai, this is an essenti

This book explores the interface between intellectual property and human rights law and policy. The relationship between these two fields has captured the attention of governments, policymakers, and activist communities in a diverse array of international and domestic political and judicial venues. These actors often raise human rights arguments as counterweights to the expansion of intellectual property in areas including freedom of expression, public health, education, privacy, agriculture, and the rights of indigenous peoples. At the same time, creators and owners of intellectual property are asserting a human rights justification for the expansion of legal protections. This book explores the legal, institutional, and political implications of these competing claims: by offering a framework for exploring the connections and divergences between these subjects; by identifying the pathways along which jurisprudence, policy, and political discourse are likely to evolve; and by serving a

This 11th volume in the series on Legal Aspects of Sustainable Development offers thought-provoking analysis of property rights and duties in the context of sustainability issues. Contributions invest

Pioneers in an emergent field, the authors of Climate Change Law and Policy have created a modular and accessible text with extensive web resources. Designed for 2- and 3-credit courses, discussion, c

The use of private property rights to regulate common pool natural resources is a controversial topic which must address two critical issues: the allocation of wealth in society and proper conservatio

In a country built on the institution of private property, property-owner rights have been under attack. By arguing that private property is a fundamental liberty whose protection deserves the highest

Property Rights in Money is a systematic study of how proprietary interests in the ownership of and transactions in money are transferred and enforced as part of a payment transaction. The book begin

This critical study of intellectual property in the new media environment highlights the ways in which issues of intellectual property are driving the contemporary media economy, from disputes over do

The expert contributors from around the globe provide unique case studies to guide indigenous communities and their partners in protecting their intellectual property. Addressing the poor fit between

Mostly economists, but also engineers and contributors from other fields, particularly concerning water, combine theory and evidence to explore the interaction between technology and property rights.

This is a study of the way individuals organise the use of resources in order to maximise the value of their economic rights over these resources. Property rights and all forms of organisation result from people's deliberate actions. In the tradition of Coase, this study offers a unified theoretical structure to deal with exchange, rights formation and organisation which traditional economic theory assumes away. A person's economic property rights over an asset are defined here as the person's ability to gain from the asset by direct consumption or by exchange. It is prohibitively costly to measure accurately all assets' attributes; therefore, rights to them are never fully delineated. Property is consequently in danger of appropriation by others. Individuals enhance their rights by such actions as the protection and better delineation of their assets. In this new edition, Professor Barzel introduces the central role of equity capital as a guarantor of the activities of the firm and el