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Traditional Knowledge And Intellectual Property Rights In Australia And Southeast Asia, Christoph Antons
Traditional Knowledge And Intellectual Property Rights In Australia And Southeast Asia, Christoph Antons
Faculty of Law - Papers (Archive)
This paper will present a short survey of various approaches to traditional knowledge and folklore protection in Australia and Southeast Asia. It seems that both the terminology used in the debate about traditional knowledge and folklore and the legal solutions envisaged are very diverse. Over the last decade there has been an explosion of international declarations and organisations advocating internationally harmonised notions of rights to culture, often on behalf of indigenous minorities or other local communities. This often leads to what Cowan, Dembour and Wilson2 have called “strategic essentialism”. The term refers to the attempts by activists from or working …
The Historical Lessons And Intellectual Rigour Of Admiral Sir Herbert William Richmond, Bruce Mclennan
The Historical Lessons And Intellectual Rigour Of Admiral Sir Herbert William Richmond, Bruce Mclennan
Faculty of Law - Papers (Archive)
Admiral Sir Herbert William Richmond (1871-1946) is remembered as a naval officer, an historian, and an intellectual. He was nurtured during an era when the Royal Navy was assimilating the advent of ‘mechanisation’, and forming its doctrine in the artificial conditions of peace. This was the Dreadnought era: the era of the ‘materialist’ school of strategic thought when the Royal Navy was driven by the arguments of the technical rationalists, to the neglect of the historical strategists. Richmond led the intellectual counter— the ‘historical’ school of strategic thought— and while never producing an overall theory of naval strategy, he did …