Recent Papers

• The De Soto Dilemma: Squatters and Urban Land Titling

  Paper, Mar 20, 2008

  Since property regimes have informed the basic foundations of liberal economic and political thought, urban land titling projects provide an insightful technical lens and a revealing case study for the identification and assessment of contemporary liberalisms, and the varied ways liberal forms are presently being deployed.

• Bioprospecting and Biopiracy: Intellectual Property Rights and Indigenous Peoples

  Paper, Mar 19, 2005

  In recent decades, the emergence of a confluence of factors has made the relationship between intellectual property rights, indigenous knowledge and biological resource extraction the subject of extremely heated debate. And almost every market and non-market value cited to discredit bioprospecting – fairness, compensation, cultural preservation, biodiversity conservation, food security, public health – are the same ones used by bioprospectors to justify and give credence to their endeavor. This has raised even more questions.