The 1994 WTO TRIPS agreement made intellectual property binding global law

Evidence

In an epochal transformation occurring within the last generation, IP rights have become binding international economic law with the passage of the Agreement on Trade-Related International Property Rights (TRIPS) as part of the WTO Agreement signed in 1994 and coming into force the following year. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 164

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: TRIPS made intellectual property binding international economic law in the mid-1990s. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 164; WTO design deliberately scaled European constitutionalism into a global trade constitution — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists: The End of Empire and the…, 836; IP rights moved from periphery to center of world economy conflicts since the 1980s — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 163 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• TRIPS made intellectual property binding international economic law in the mid-1990s. #corroborates (1.00) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 164
• Transnational corporations captured IP policy and pushed TRIPS through GATT #expands (0.85) — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 2194
• Pro-corporate IP advocacy replaced competition discourse with protection and exclusion language #expands (0.80) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 198
• WTO design deliberately scaled European constitutionalism into a global trade constitution #expands (0.75) — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, 836
• IP rights moved from periphery to center of world economy conflicts since the 1980s #responds-to (0.75) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 163
• International IP harmonization created a new knowledge feudalism #complicates (0.75) — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 2192
• European Community law served as the model for scaling a supranational trade constitution globally #expands (0.72) — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, 834