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55 Gonz. L. Rev. 401 (2019-2020)
IP Social Justice Theory: Access, Inclusion, and Empowerment

handle is hein.journals/gonlr55 and id is 429 raw text is: IP SOCIAL JUSTICE THEORY: ACCESS, INCLUSION, AND EMPOWERMENT* Lateef Mtima** TABLE OF CONTENTS I. IN TRODU CTION .................................................................................... 402 II. THE LAW AND POLICY PRE-HISTORY OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SOCIAL JUSTICE .................................................................. 403 A. Judicial Social Balancing of IP Stakeholder Interests to Promote the Progress of the Arts and Sciences ........................... 403 B. Countervailing Forces: The Commodification of IP Law ............ 405 C. Challenging the Status Quo: The Advent of Deontological' IP Scholarship .............................................................................. 407 III. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SOCIAL JUSTICE: A THEORETICAL RATIONALE FOR THE GLOBAL IP ECO-SYSTEM ................................... 410 A. Social Justice Enters the IP Lexicon ............................................ 410 B. IP Social Justice Challenges and Aspirations: Towards an Affirm ative Theory ....................................................................... 412 C. Revealing IP Social Justice Standards: Inherent Tenets of Equitable Access, Inclusion, and Empowerment ......................... 413 D. Reconciliation with Economic Mechanisms and Objectives ........ 416 IV. IP SOCIAL JUSTICE: MAPPING THE RATIONALE ................................... 418 * This article is an adaptation of a presentation delivered at the Gonzaga University School of Law on September 20, 2019, as part of the Center for Civil and Human Rights Conference entitled: Medicine, Music, & Mascots-Furthering Social Justice in the Age of Intellectual Property. ** Professor of Law, Howard University School, and Founder and Director of the Institute for Intellectual Property and Social Justice, an accredited Non-governmental Organization Member of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), which advocates for the recognition and fulfillment of social justice obligations in the application of national and global intellectual property law and policy.

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