ABSTRACT

The author's work on intellectual property focused on the gap between well-established analytical claims about the benefits of adopting and deploying intellectual property rights (IPR) and the observable effects of IPR across the global system. His current work on the rule of law examines that norms construction by specific agents rather than accepting it as an emergent political value. In particular, the author focus on the role of norms, the manner in which they are reproduced and their political impact leads him to conclude that the critique of normative settlements may have some impact on social practices and the norms themselves by potentially feeding into the processes of normative reproduction. For critical analysts, it is not uncommon to sense a divide between critical and problem-solving analyses. Within the global political economy, the routines and practices of individuals, organisations and institutions are the sites where normative settlements are almost unconsciously reproduced.