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A curated resource for scholars, practitioners, and students working with the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights — its drafting history, dispute settlement case law, and evolving interpretation.
Daniel J. Gervais
Milton R. Underwood Professor of Law (emeritus), Vanderbilt Law School
Senior Associate Professor, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Distinguished Fellow, IvIR, University of Amsterdam
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Books, book chapters, and journal articles spanning more than two decades of scholarship on the TRIPS Agreement — with links to open-access versions where available.
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The TRIPS Agreement: Drafting History and Analysis
Sweet & Maxwell, 5th edition (2021)
The leading commentary on the TRIPS Agreement, now in its fifth edition. Written by a scholar who served on the GATT legal staff during the Uruguay Round, it offers article-by-article analysis of the Agreement's drafting history and a comprehensive survey of WTO dispute settlement case law. Cited by the Supreme Court of the United States and by Advocates General of the Court of Justice of the European Union.
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Daniel J. Gervais holds the Milton R. Underwood Chair in Law at Vanderbilt Law School, a Senior Associate Professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and is a Distinguished Fellow at the Institute for Information Law (IvIR) at the University of Amsterdam. His scholarly focus spans international IP law, artificial intelligence and copyright, and collective rights management.
Before entering academia, he served as a Legal Officer at the GATT during the Uruguay Round, as Head of Section at WIPO, and as a senior officer in the international copyright industry. He has testified before the European Parliament, the United States Congress, and the Parliament of Canada, and his work has been cited by the Supreme Court of the United States and the Supreme Court of Canada.
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