This book explores the legal, institutional, and political implications of intellectual property and human rights law and policy.

1. Mapping the interface of human rights and intellectual property: a conceptual and institutional framework for analysis; 2. The human right to health, access to patented medicines, and the restructuring of global innovation policy; 3. Creators' rights as human rights and the human right of property; 4. Rights to freedom of expression, cultural participation and to benefit from scientific advancements; 5. The right to education and copyright in learning materials; 6. The human right to food, plant genetic resources, and intellectual property; 7. Indigenous peoples' rights and intellectual property; 8. Conclusion.

Laurence R. Helfer is the Harry R. Chadwick, Sr Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law, where he co-directs the Center for International and Comparative Law and is a member of the faculty steering committee of the Duke Center on Human Rights. He has authored more than fifty publications and has lectured widely on his diverse research interests, which include interdisciplinary analysis of international law and institutions, human rights, and international intellectual property law and policy. He is the co-author of Human Rights, 2nd edition (2009), and the author of Intellectual Property Rights in Plant Varieties: International Legal Regimes and Policy Options for National Governments (2004).