This book moves beyond abstract legal concepts to network analysis of real-world cases, and provides invaluable insights for policymakers and practitioners. It is a genuinely novel contribution that bridges the gap between widely discussed legal concepts and the complex realities of protecting genetic resources and traditional knowledge.
Shinto Teramoto, Professor, Kyushu University Graduate School of Law, Japan
Karimovs innovative, if not unconventional, analysis challenges policymakers and scholars to better understand how genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge are shared in the real world. It exposes flaws in existing legal mechanisms and offers forward-looking proposals, which makes his highly readable book an important and refreshing contribution to scholarship.
Wend Wendland, Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Cape Town, South Africa
This timely and thought-provoking book offers a fresh, network-based perspective on the complex legal challenges surrounding genetic resources and traditional knowledge. By viewing legal regimes as embedded within dynamic social networks, it challenges conventional legal frameworks and leads to more responsive, context-aware, and transnationally effective approaches to access and benefit-sharing.
Steven Van Uytsel, Professor, Kyushu University Graduate School of Law
Dr Karimovs study makes an original contribution to long-standing debates on the protection of genetic resources and traditional knowledge. His skilful social network analysis and careful examination of biopiracy cases expose systemic enforcement challenges and testify to the value of sociological, relational, and structural understanding of law and its workings.
Daria Kim, Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition