Most scholarship on intellectual property considers this law from the standpoint of law and economics. Under this conventional wisdom, intellectual property is simply a tool for promoting innovative products, from iPods to R2D2. In her highly original new book “From Goods to a Good Life: Intellectual Property and Global Justice,” UC Davis’s own Professor Madhavi Sunder calls for a richer understanding of intellectual property law’s effects on social and cultural life, as well as human freedom.

There will be a lecture at 4pm featuring Prof. Sunder as well as Profs. Biagioli and Sun, followed by a reception at 5pm.