Christopher Arup

The Global Financial Crisis: Learning from Regulatory and Governance Studies

Regulatory and governance studies help locate power and responsibility in the global financial crisis. I argue that corporate and state power worked together in centers like New York and London to shape regulation and that power was spread around the world. In the response to the crisis, responsibility for regulation will remain largely systems-based rather than centrally directed. However, those systems should be located in the culture of the elites, which are socially and spatially based, as much as in the economics of the markets or the cognition of the firms. And that responsibility has limits, so there should be greater democratic control of finance and less dependence on finance capitalism for essential services, social security, and environment protection.

Intellectual property policy reform : fostering innovation and development

Contents: 1. Themes and Prospects for Intellectual Property Law Reform Chris Arup and William van Caenegem PART I: GOVERNMENT INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY GRANTS 2. Why Patents Need Reform, and Some Suggestions for It William Kingston 3. What are the Costs and Benefits of Patent Systems? Hazel V.J. Moir 4. Strong Patent Rights, Weak Patent Standards and Innovation in Biomedicine Dianne Nicol 5. The Jewel in the Crown - Indias Patent Office and Patent-based Innovation Peter Drahos 6. The First Steps in Remedying the Relationship between Patents and Competition Charles Lawson PART II: OPEN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SYSTEMS 7. An Introduction to Open Source Biotechnology Janet Hope 8. Intellectual Property, Innovation and Openness Ulf Petrusson and Caroline Pamp 9. Wikipedia, Collective Authorship, and the Politics of Knowledge Matthew Rimmer 10. Copyright and the New Street Literature Megan Richardson and Jason Bosland PART III: PRIVATE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY TRANSFERS 11. Commercialization of University Research and Free Diffusion - What does Experience Show Works Best in and for Australia? Ann L. Monotti 12. Pervasive Incentives, Disparate Innovation and Intellectual Property Law William van Caenegem 13. Commodifying Sheer Talent: Perverse Developments in the Laws Enforcement of Restrictive Covenants Joellen Riley 14. Split Entitlements? Intellectual Property Policy for Clusters and Networks Chris Arup 15. Conclusion William van Caenegem and Chris Arup Index

The governance of patents and pharmaceuticals: The regional FTA contribution

This chapter assesses the contribution regional FTAs make to the governance of patents and pharmaceuticals. In regulating trade, these FTAs form part of an international pattern of intellectual property law making. The chapter puts the provisions of the FTA Australia made with the United States in the context of international agreements and national laws. Dealing with such aspects as patentability, patent use rights, generics to market, compulsory licensing, and trade in pharmaceuticals, the purpose is to gauge whether these FTAs help meet the needs for medicines in the region. With the negotiation of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, this assessment remains alive.

The Power of the Employer to Standdown: Latitude and Constraints

Employers have a right to standdown employees if they cannot be usefully employed. This right is guaranteed in the contract of employment and is also recognised in federal and state awards. However, the use of these clauses has altered over the years as a result of varying award provisions and court judgements. Employees may be stood down if they cannot be usefully employed but it is clear that the employer must make some effort to offset the effects of stoppages through strike activity, machinery breakdown or stoppages of work by any other cause. The right to standdown has been restricted through a limit to the length of a standdown period, through a requirement that at least a set minimum of wages must be paid and through the strict control by the Commission on the use of the clause. The conclusion is that some attention must be given to the effect of standdowns on employees, and the author suggests the use of an income-support or wage-guarantee scheme for those employees who would otherwise be stood down without pay.

Commodifying Farming, Regulating Capitalism?

Commodification is once again a dominant theme to capitalism. Should regulatory capitalism embrace or resist commodification? As a gauge, the paper examines recent experience with the claims that small-scale farming is strengthened through the sympathetic commodification of traditional knowledge, carbon storage and financial futures. It finds that each claim shows a little promise, but finally it seems that the commodity form cannot fully represent these strengths. Socio-legal research should understand how law constructs commodities, but it should also explore how law might sustain relationships.

Assessing the Impact of Employment Legislation: The Coalition Government’s Labour Law Programme 1996-2007 and the Challenge of Research

Following 13 years of Labor government at the Federal level a Liberal/National Party Coalition government was elected to office in the Australian general election of 1996. This government was subsequently re-elected in 1998, 2001, and again in 2004, before finally losing power in the 2007 Federal election. Industrial relations and labour law policy were critical aspects of the Coalition’s political and social platform throughout its entire period of office and in pursuance of these policies the government introduced many significant changes to employment relations legislation. These were more than changes of detail, representing fundamental shifts in the distribution of power between the parties to employment relations, and in the means of determining terms and conditions of employment. This report is designed to provide a summary and review of research published over the period 1997-2008 on the impact of the reforms to employment relations legislation which occurred during that period. The report is not a legal analysis per se, although the work does include some published studies carried out by labour lawyers. Rather, the main aim of the report is to assess what practical impact the Coalition’s legislative programme had upon various aspects of labour market and employment relations institutions, arrangements and behaviour; an assessment, then, not of why and how the law changed in a technical sense, but of the consequences and outcomes of legal change. The report also aims to say something about the nature of research in this area, and some of the disciplinary difficulties associated with it.

Innovation, Policy and Law by Christopher Arup

Part I. The Framework for the Study: 1. Innovation and policy 2. Policy and law Part II. Intellectual Property: 3. Patents and living organisms 4. Copyright and computer software 5. Information and appropriation Part III. Competition and Trade: 6. Competition law 7. Foreign trade and investment Part IV. Government Sponsorship and Entrepreneurship: 8. Direct grants and tax concession 9. Procurement preference and offsets 10. Telecommunications licensing 11. The positive adjustment measures in the courts and legislatures 12. Conclusion Bibliography Index.Every word to utter from the writer involves the element of this life. The writer really shows how the simple words can maximize how the impression of this book is uttered directly for the readers. Even you have known about the content of innovation policy and law so much, you can easily do it for your better connection. In delivering the presence of the book concept, you can find out the boo site here.

Political Strikes: A Fresh Look at Spicer's Case

THE obviously political or non-industrial strikes,’ such as the boycott of the South African rugby team or the ban on redevelopment of Victoria Street, have dual personalities. They involve a weapon of direct industrial action in support of an objective for the consideration of society at large. It is therefore almost inevitable that they generate a conflict of interests and obligations that is not always resolved satisfactorily. The difhculties experienced in reconciling these strikes with the federal indus,