By Catrina Sveum
ABSTRACT:
This book provides an overview of the legal and scientific concepts involving the appropriation of plants for biotechnological purposes. The book focuses on the tension between developing nations and industrialized nations as plant resources become the subjects of patents.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Ikechi Mgbeoji received his Juris Scientiae Doctor degree from Dalhousie University. He is a law professor at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University.2 He previously practiced civil litigation, patent law and intellectual property law. He has taught at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. He is also the author of Collective Insecurity: The Liberian Crisis, Unilateralism, & Global Order and the co-author of Environmental Law in Developing Countries: Selected Issues. He also serves as a consultant to the Environmental Law Center of the World Conservation Union. Mr. Mgbeoji has also been the recipient of numerous academic awards, including the Killam Scholarship and the Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft Award.
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