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Property Rights Legislation In Agricultural Biotechnology: United States And Argentina, Andres A. Gallo, Jay P. Kesan
Property Rights Legislation In Agricultural Biotechnology: United States And Argentina, Andres A. Gallo, Jay P. Kesan
Andres A. Gallo
The market for biotechnology products has expanded rapidly in the 1990s and is expected to give impulse to radical changes in agriculture around the world. Investment in research and development (R&D) of new seed varieties has become a key factor for agriculture development. In the last decades, the investment in R&D has switched from state sponsored research to private funding. At the same time, the market has moved towards a strong concentration in a few multinational firms, which now control most of the agricultural biotechnology R&D around the world. One of the most important issues regarding ag-biotechnology is the legal …
Pondering The Politics Of Private Procedures: The Case Of Icann, Andres A. Gallo, Jay P. Kesan
Pondering The Politics Of Private Procedures: The Case Of Icann, Andres A. Gallo, Jay P. Kesan
Andres A. Gallo
The creation of ICANN was sought by the United States government to promote international cooperation in the governance of the Internet based on a bottom-up system in which government intervention was limited, if not eliminated. However, as the Internet has become a global phenomenon, this initiative has faced increasing opposition from the international community. As we have shown in this article, the evolution of ICANN reveals how it slowly departed from its mere technical role into a more political one, in which all groups and constituencies try to impose their preferences. During the reform movement initiated from inside ICANN, different …