Critical Race Theory as Intellectual Property Methodology

Intellectual Property Research, Oxford University Press, 2021, edited by Irene Calboli and Maria Lilla Montagnani

U. of Pittsburgh Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2022-06

15 Pages Posted: 27 Jun 2022

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Anjali Vats

University of Pittsburgh - School of Law; University of Pittsburgh - Department of Communication

Deidre A. Keller

Florida A & M University College of Law

Date Written: 2022

Abstract

This chapter traces the emergence of Critical Race Intellectual Property (CRTIP) as a distinct area of study and activism that builds on the work of Critical Legal Studies and Critical Intellectual Property scholars. Invested in the workings of power - but with particular intersectional attentiveness to race - Critical Intellectual Property works to imagine new, often more socially just, forms of knowledge produce. In this brief chapter, we lay out the origins of Critical Race Theory (CRT) and its central methods, articulate a vision of CRT, and contemplate how CRT's interdisciplinary and transnational methods might apply to intellectual property. In accomplishing the latter, we use India's commitments to access to knowledge in the recent Delhi University copyshop case and controversy over Novartis's drug Gleevec to show how CRT's central insights can open possibilities for reading intellectual property law with attunement to structures of racial power.

Keywords: Intellectual property, Critical Race Theory, methodology

Suggested Citation

Vats, Anjali and Keller, Deidre A., Critical Race Theory as Intellectual Property Methodology (2022). Intellectual Property Research, Oxford University Press, 2021, edited by Irene Calboli and Maria Lilla Montagnani , U. of Pittsburgh Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2022-06, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4023601

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Deidre A. Keller

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