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Who Owns Knowledge? Knowledge and the Law
342 Pages
by
Routledge
344 Pages
by
Routledge
344 Pages
by
Routledge
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Who Owns Knowledge? explores the emerging linkages between the extension of knowledge and the law. It anticipates that the legal system will not only be called upon to adjudicate in matters of creative minds, but will be expected to do so to an ever increasing degree. Linkages between the legal system and knowledge are bound to multiply in modern societies. Ironically, while increasingly... Read more
Introduction Knowledge and the Law: Can Knowledge be Made Just?; 1: The Social Contexts of Knowledge and the Law; 1: The Law and Economics of Rights in Valuable Information; 2: Scientific Norms, Legal Facts, and the Politics of Knowledge; 3: Is a Just System also Fair? Traversing the Domain of Knowledge, Institutions, Culture, and Ethics 1; 2: Major Social Institutions, Knowledge and the Law; 4: Fundamental Ignorance in the Regulation of Reactor Safety and Flooding: Risks of Knowledge Management in the Risk Society 1; 5: Science in Whose Interest? States, Firms, the Public, and Scientific Knowledge 1; 3: The Social Context of Knowledge and the Law: Who Owns Knowledge; 6: The Difficult Reception of Rigorous Descriptive Social Science in the Law; 7: Inexplicable Law: Legality’s Adventure in Europe *; 8: In Search of the Story; 9: Does the Category of Justice Apply to Drug Research Based on Traditional Knowledge? The Case of the Hoodia Cactus and the Politics of Biopiracy; 10: Profiles and Correlatable Humans; 11: Research Ethics as the Latest Moral Panic in the Governance of Scientific Knowledge; 12: Concluding Observations
Biography
Bernd Weiler
