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Government Innovation Choices after Rio + 20 and the Need for Further Study

Government Innovation Choices after Rio + 20 and the Need for Further Study

At the Rio + 20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development -- which followed by forty years the Stockholm Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment and by twenty years the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development -- the negotiators sought to “reinvigorate political will and raise the level of commitment by […]

Intellectual Property And Development: Closing The Conceptual Gap

Intellectual Property And Development: Closing The Conceptual Gap

Alysia Lau is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. I spent this past summer interning with the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in Jakarta, Indonesia. Preparing to take part in the new Osgoode IP Law & Technology Intensive Program this coming fall gave me an opportunity to reflect on the intersection between IP issues […]