Ruth Okediji

Ruth L. Okediji, Is Intellectual Property “Investment”? Eli Lilly v. Canada and the International Intellectual Property System, 35 U. Pa. J. Int’l L. 1121 (2014).

Ruth L. Okediji, Legal Innovation in International Intellectual Property Relations: Revisiting Twenty-One Years of the TRIPS Agreement, 36 U. Pa. J. Int’l L. 191 (2015).

Jerome H. Reichman & Ruth L. Okediji, When Copyright Law and Science Collide: Empowering Digitally Integrated Research Methods on a Global Scale, 96 Minn. L.

Exam Type: In Class This course examines enforceable promises. It begins with a study of the sources of contract law and the concept of ‘mutual…

Ruth L. Okediji, Grafting Traditional Knowledge onto a Common Law System, 110 Geo. L.J. 75 (2021).

Prerequisites: None Exam Type:TBD This course will examine the rules and standards of professional responsibility and legal ethics with a focus on how the study…

Prerequisites: Faculty permission. Interested students should submit a one-paragraph statement of interest briefly describing their background and reason for wanting to take the course. Please…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: In Class Roughly half of this course will examine and assess the legal rules in the United States and other countries…

Students enrolling in Fall-Spring groups are required to submit a signed Writing Group Registration Form to the Registrar’s Office by October 14, 2022.…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: One-Day Take-home This course will explore copyright law and policy. Approximately two thirds of the class time and readings will be…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule Roughly half of this course will examine and assess the legal…

Exam Type: In Class This course will provide a comprehensive study of the law that governs enforceable promises. It begins with a study of the…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This seminar will explore the role of faith and Biblical Christianity in shaping contemporary legal approaches to a variety…

Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule This course will provide a comprehensive study of the law that governs enforceable…

Students enrolling in Fall-Spring groups are required to submit a signed Writing Group Registration Form to the Registrar’s Office by September 17, 2021.…

Ruth Okediji, Intellectual Property in the Image of Human Rights: A Critical Review, in Framing Intellectual Property Law in the 21st Century (Elizabeth Siew-Kuan Ng…

Ruth Okediji, Jeremiah Smith Jr. & Bill Hannay, The Long Arm of the Law, Charlseton Library Conf. (2018).

Ruth Okediji, With a Covid-19 Vaccine Patent Waiver Likely, Time to Rethink Global Intellectual Property Rules, CNN (Apr. 12, 2021).

Ruth L. Okediji, Culture and the Globalization of Knowledge Production: A Tribute to William P. Alford, 62 Harv. Int’l L.J. 23 (2021).

Ruth L. Okediji, Traditional Knowledge and Private Law, in The Oxford Handbook of the New Private Law (Andrew S. Gold, John C. P. Goldberg, Daniel…

Laurence R. Helfer, Molly K. Land & Ruth L. Okediji, Copyright Exceptions Across Borders: Implementing the Marrakesh Treaty, 42 Eur. Intell. Prop. Rev. 332 (2020).

Ruth L. Okediji, When is Intellectual Property an Investment?, in Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Investment Law 94 (Christophe Geiger ed., 2020).

Ruth Okediji, Navigating Access to Knowledge: Copyright, Fake News, Fair Use, and Libraries, 2018 Proc. Charleston Libr. Conf. 15 (2019).

Ruth L. Okediji, The Limits of International Copyright Exceptions for Developing Countries, 21 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L. 689 (2019).

Ruth Okediji, Traditional Knowledge and the Public Domain (CIGI Papers No. 176, June 15, 2018).

Ruth L. Okediji, Creative Markets and Copyright in the Fourth Industrial Era: Reconfiguring the Public Benefit for a Digital Trade Economy (ICTSD Issue Paper No.

Ruth Okediji, Traditional Knowledge and the Public Domain in Intellectual Property, in Intellectual Property and Development: Understanding the Interfaces 249 (Carlos Correa & Xavier Seuba…

Ruth Okediji, A Tiered Approach to Rights in Traditional Knowledge: The Foulston Siefkin Lecture, 58 Washburn L.J. 271 (2019).

Ruth L. Okediji, Does Intellectual Property Need Human Rights?, 51 N.Y.U. J. Int’l & Pol. 1 (2018).

Laurence R. Helfer, Molly K. Land, Ruth L. Okediji & Jerome H. Reichman, The World Blind Union Guide to the Marrakesh Treaty: Facilitating Access to…

Ruth L. Okediji, The Institutions of Intellectual Property: New Trends in an Old Debate, 98 Am. Soc’y Int’l L. Proc. 219 (2004).

Ruth L. Okediji, Through the Years: The Supreme Court and the Copyright Clause, 30 Wm. Mitchell L. Rev. 1633 (2004).

Ruth L. Okediji, Law and Technology, in International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences 520 (James D. Wright ed., 2nd ed. 2015).

Ruth L. Okediji, Toward an International Fair Use Doctrine, 39 Colum. J. Transnat’l L. 75 (2000).

Ruth L. Okediji, Back to Bilateralism? Pendulum Swings in International Intellectual Property Agreements, 1 U. Ottawa L. & Tech. J. 125 (2004).

Ruth L. Okediji, Balancing Acts: Antitrust for Economic Development, 48 Antitrust Bull. 923 (2003).

Ruth L. Okediji, The International Relations of Intellectual Property: Naratives of Developing Country Participation in the Global Intellectual Property System, 7 Sing. J. Int’l &…

Ruth L. Okediji, Africa and the Global Intellectual Property System: Beyond the Agency Model, 12 Afr. Y.B. Int’l L. 207 (2004).

Ruth L. Okediji, Beyond Fragmentation: WIPO-WTO Relations and the Future of Global IP Norms, 39 Neth. Y.B. Int’l L. 69 (2008).

Ruth L. Okediji, IP Essentialism and the Authority of the Firm, 117 Yale L.J. Pocket Part 274 (2008).

Ruth L. Okediji, The International Intellectual Property Roots of Geographical Indications, 82 Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 1329 (2007).

Ruth L. Okediji, Contracts, Persons and Property: A Tribute to Margaret Jane Radin, 22 Mich. Telecomm. & Tech. L. Rev. 143 (2015).

Ruth L. Okediji, Government as Owner of Intellectual Property: Considerations for Public Welfare in an Era of Big Data, 18 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech.

Ruth L. Okediji, Sustainable Access to Copyrighted Digital Information Works in Developing Countries, in International Public Goods and Transfer of Technology Under a Globalized Intellectual…

Ruth L. Okediji, Rules of Power in an Age of Law: Process Opportunism and TRIPS Dispute Settlement, in Handbook of International Trade: Economic and Legal…

Ruth L. Okediji, The Limits of Development Strategies at the Intersection of Intellectual Property and Human Rights, in Intellectual Property, Trade and Development: Strategies to…