Patent Games in the Global South

In this thought-provoking analysis the author takes three examples of emerging markets (Brazil India and Nigeria) and tells their stories of pharmaceutical patent law-making. <br/><br/>Adopting historiographical and socio-legal approaches focus is drawn to the role of history social networks and how relationships between a variety of actors shape the framing of and subsequently the responses to national implementation of international patent law. In doing so the book reveals why the experience of Nigeria - a country active in opposing the inclusion of IP to the WTO framework during the Uruguay Rounds - is so different from that of Brazil and India. <br/><br/>This book makes an original and useful contribution to the further understanding of how both states and non-state actors conceptualise establish and interpret pharmaceutical patents law and its domestic implications on medicines access public health and development. <i>Patent Games in the Global South</i> was awarded the 2018 SIEL-Hart Prize in International Economic Law.