Legal Protection for Traditional Knowledge: Towards a New Law for Indigenous Intellectual Property - Paperback

by Anindya Bhukta (Author)

Legal Protection for Traditional Knowledge calls attention to the vital contributions that aboriginal knowledge makes to global development and how the legal systems in place, particularly in India, must change to protect this knowledge.This book is a must-read for researchers in economics, development studies, and international law.

Author Biography

Anindya Bhukta is an Associate Professor of Economics at Burdwan University, India. He has worked on intellectual property rights issues for over two decades, is editor of the online journal Economy, Polity, Environment, and is the first author to write Bengali dictionaries of economics and the environment.