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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Patent Games in the Global South: Pharmaceutical Patent Law-Making in Brazil India and Nigeria by Amaka Vanni
Winner of the 2018 SIEL–Hart Prize in International Economic Law. This thought-provoking book takes three examples of emerging markets (Brazil India and Nigeria) and tells their stories of pharmaceutical patent law-making. Adopting historiographical and socio-legal approaches focus is drawn to the role of history and to how social networks shape the framing of and subsequently the responses to national implementation of international patent law. This book makes an original and useful contribution to the understanding of how both states and non-state actors conceptualise establish and interpret pharmaceutical patents law and its domestic implications on medicines access public health and development.