Intellectual Property Ordering beyond Borders

Part I. The Broader Environment for IP Protection Beyond Borders: 1. The international IP system from an economist's perspective Keith E. Maskus; 2. Cast into the stones of international law: a critique of the UPOV standards and the underlying welfare and scientific assumptions they globalize Mrinalini Kochupillai and Julia Köninger; 3. Economic nationalism in intellectual property policy and law Alexander Peukert; 4. Hybrid international intellectual property protection: coherence, governance and balance Tobias Stoll; Part II. IP Protection within its General International (Economic) Law Context: 5. The role of customary international law for intellectual property protection beyond borders Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan; 6. Interpretation of IP treaties in accordance with Article 31-33 VCLT: a case study on the practice of the European Patent Office Axel Metzger; 7. Parallel trade and exhaustion of intellectual property in WTO law revisited Thomas Cottier; Part III. The Scope and Mechanisms of International IP Treaties: 8. Universalism in international copyright law as seen through the lens of Marrakesh Graeme B. Dinwoodie; 9. Measuring the scope of obligations under international treaties – (to what extent) are IP conventions binding on Paris- or TRIPS-plus legislation? Annette Kur; 10. Floors and ceilings in international copyright treaties: Berne, TRIPS, WCT Minima and Maxima Jane C. Ginsburg; Part IV. Implementing International IP Provisions: 11. Self-executing international intellectual property obligations? Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss; 12. Technical assistance as a tool for implementing and expanding IP treaty obligations Daniel Opoku Acquah; 13. How external factors shaped domestic intellectual property law in Latin America Juan I. Correa; 14. Creating statutory remuneration rights in copyright law: what policy options under the international legal framework? Christophe Geiger and Oleksandr Bulayenko.