The University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law welcomes Tahir Amin, LLB, Dip. LP, founder and CEO of the Initiative for Medicines, Access & Knowledge, on April 6 as part of the UMB Human Rights and Global Health Lecture Series.
Based on his forthcoming book, "Pharma Monopoly," Amin's talk, "The Rules Based Order Is Dead: Long Live the Power Based Order," will recount the pre-history that set the stage for the creation of the World Trade Organization — a history that often suffers from a historical thinking in policy and legal circles and which continues to help perpetuate the ruse of a rules-based order. It is a story of how the political economic ideology of neoliberalism repackaged capitalism and progress in the language of "free-market competition," "innovation," and "markets" to counter the aspirations of decolonization by newly independent nations and a New International Economic Order movement that in the 1970s sought to prioritize social and economic justice as the central theme of development.
Register for the in-person event, which will be held from 4-6 p.m. April 6.