Geneva rhetoric, national reality : the political economy of introducing plant breeders' rights in Kenya
The article is about implementing obligations under Article 27.3(b) of the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS). However, concerned with the fragmentation of international law in a globalised world, the article uses Kenya as a case study to interrogate the apparent cho...
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ftuwarwick:oai:wrap.warwick.ac.uk:55437 2023-05-15T13:44:00+02:00 Geneva rhetoric, national reality : the political economy of introducing plant breeders' rights in Kenya Rangnekar, Dwijen 2013-05-28 text http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/55437/ http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/55437/1/WRAP_Rangnekar_13563467%252E2013%252E796445.pdf https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2013.796445 unknown Routledge http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/55437/1/WRAP_Rangnekar_13563467%252E2013%252E796445.pdf Rangnekar, Dwijen (2013) Geneva rhetoric, national reality : the political economy of introducing plant breeders' rights in Kenya. New Political Economy . doi:10.1080/13563467.2013.796445 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2013.796445 > KN Asia and Eurasia Africa Pacific Area and Antarctica Journal Article NonPeerReviewed 2013 ftuwarwick https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2013.796445 2022-03-16T20:47:28Z The article is about implementing obligations under Article 27.3(b) of the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS). However, concerned with the fragmentation of international law in a globalised world, the article uses Kenya as a case study to interrogate the apparent choice and latitude in Article 27.3(b). At the TRIPS Council, Kenya has sought to locate Article 27.3(b) within a wider frame by adroitly norm-borrowing, and it canvassed for integrating norms and principles from other multilateral agreements into TRIPS. Yet, when introducing plant breeders' rights into domestic law, Kenya fails to either explore the apparent latitude or deliver on its rhetoric in Geneva. I explain this decoupling between Geneva rhetoric (ritual) and domestic law (behaviour) as another symptom of what Steinberg [(2002), ‘In the Shadow of Law or Power? Consensus-Based Bargaining and Outcomes in the GATT/WTO’, International Organization, 56 (2), pp. 339–74)] characterises as ‘organised hypocrisy’ of the World Trade Organisation. In demonstrating that fragmentation in global legal architecture may not automatically emerge in domestic law, the article draws out the significance of attending to a domestic political economy of law-making. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctica The University of Warwick: WRAP - Warwick Research Archive Portal Pacific New Political Economy 19 3 359 383 |
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The article is about implementing obligations under Article 27.3(b) of the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS). However, concerned with the fragmentation of international law in a globalised world, the article uses Kenya as a case study to interrogate the apparent choice and latitude in Article 27.3(b). At the TRIPS Council, Kenya has sought to locate Article 27.3(b) within a wider frame by adroitly norm-borrowing, and it canvassed for integrating norms and principles from other multilateral agreements into TRIPS. Yet, when introducing plant breeders' rights into domestic law, Kenya fails to either explore the apparent latitude or deliver on its rhetoric in Geneva. I explain this decoupling between Geneva rhetoric (ritual) and domestic law (behaviour) as another symptom of what Steinberg [(2002), ‘In the Shadow of Law or Power? Consensus-Based Bargaining and Outcomes in the GATT/WTO’, International Organization, 56 (2), pp. 339–74)] characterises as ‘organised hypocrisy’ of the World Trade Organisation. In demonstrating that fragmentation in global legal architecture may not automatically emerge in domestic law, the article draws out the significance of attending to a domestic political economy of law-making. |
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