User:Lquilter/drafts/Amy Kapczynski

^[1] "(a) she is a former Marshall Scholar and current fellow at the Information Society Project of Yale Law School; (b) while at Yale, she led a successful effort that pressured the university and Bristol-Myers Squibb into "relinquish[ing] their South Africa patent on a crucial AIDS drug" (but as noted in this very interesting article by Daryl Lindsey, Kapczynski's activism -- like so much liberal crusading -- may have unfortunate and unintended consequences); (c) as noted by Lindsey, Amy "looks more like a protypical activist than a lawyer," with her "close-cropped brown hair, pierced eyebrow, and a penchant for wearing Carharrts and T-shirts"; and (d) she has an extensive record of liberal activism, having worked for a lengthy laundry list of left-leaning groups."]

"Amy Kapczynski received her J.D. from Yale Law School, her M.A. in Literature from Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, and her M.Phil. in Sociology and Politics of Modern Society from Cambridge University, after receiving her A.B. in Politics and Women's Studies from Princeton University. She has clerked for Judge Guido Calabresi on the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She has worked with Médecins Sans Frontières, ACLU Women's Right Project, East Bay Community Law Project, Lawyers Collective, HIV/AIDS Unit, and the Bard College Human Rights Project. Her primary research interests are in the interrelationship between HIV/AIDS, trade law, and international financial institutions; intellectual property law as it relates to HIV medicines for developing countries; and international human rights system failures in the HIV/AIDS pandemic."^[2]

Notable works edit

Gaëlle Krikorian and Amy Kapczynski, Access to Knowledge in the Age of Intellectual Property (MIT Press, 2010; available for download at MIT Press)