Kritika: Essays on Intellectual Property

Edited by Peter Drahos, Professor Emeritus, European University Institute, Florence, Italy and Professor Emeritus, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, Gustavo Ghidini, Professor Emeritus, University of Milan and Senior Professor of Intellectual Property and Competition Law, LUISS University, Rome, Italy and Hanns Ullrich, Professor Emeritus, Affiliated Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich, Germany

'The three first volumes of Kritika: Essays on Intellectual Property contain a deeply satisfying collection of in-depth doctrinal analyses, policy and case studies in all the major IP subject areas. With contributions from a distinctive array of scholars - all internationally recognized leaders in the field - Kritika presents rigorous and carefully considered topics that reflect upon the complex web of regulatory and legal responses to the challenges of globalized knowledge governance. These carefully curated volumes include a diversity of theoretical perspectives, empirical analyses and legal reasoning that illuminate existing controversies and provoke new approaches to pressing problems at the interface of law, culture, and technology. Kritika is an invaluable resource to IP scholars regardless of the stage of their career. The essays offer consequential insights, creative analyses and doctrinal refinements that will enrich the field and endure for the foreseeable future.'--Ruth L. Okediji, Harvard Law School, US

• Contents:1. The challenges facing IP systems: Researching for the futureRochelle C. Dreyfuss2. The digital economy, digital society, and private lawHans-W. Micklitz3. Unfair competition law – An annex to IP law? A consumer protection law? A legal field in its own right?Frauke Henning-Bodewig4. Property abandoned ? Rights, wrongs and forgetting DurkheimMark Findlay5. The forsaken PTO: Some observations on public policies concerning intellectual property law in BrazilPedro Marcos Nunes Barbosa6. Intellectual property and the bundle-of-rights metaphorSéverine Dusollier7. Uses and abuses of database rightsValeria FalceIndex