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John H. Barton  
Speaker - Freedom of Science and Philosophy - September 21st
   
John Barton

SELECTED EXPERIENCE
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, Visiting Scholar, Department of Clinical Bioethics 2004-05.
Stanford University, Stanford CA, George E. Osborne Professor of Law; on faculty since 1969; emeritus since 2003; subjects included Law and High Technology, Technology as a Business Asset, Law and Biotechnology, International Institutions, International Business, International Environmental Law; International Antitrust Law; student award for excellence in teaching, 1980.
Visiting Professorships: Harvard University, Winter, 1988; University of San Francisco Dublin Program, Summer, 1987; University of Michigan, Fall, 1981.
Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, Washington, D.C., July 1968 to June, 1969, associate in law firm.
Sylvania Electronic Defense Laboratories, Mountain View, CA, July 1961 to June 1968, engineer in operations research area, administrative duties to acting department head.

EDUCATION
Stanford University, J.D. 1968, member of Law Review, Order of the Coif.
Marquette University, B.S. (magna cum laude) 1958, majors in philosophy and physics.
Phillips Exeter Academy, 1954 (cum laude).

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Admitted to District of Columbia Bar, 1969; U.S. Supreme Court Bar, 2002.
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1992.
Chair, Commission on Intellectual Property Rights and Developing Countries (for U.K. Department for International Development), 2001-02; Committee on Intellectual Property Rights (NRC) 2001-04; Nuffield Council on Bioethics Round Table on Patenting DNA, 2000-02; Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, Working Groups on International Public Goods and on International Trade, 2000-01; National Institute of Health Working Group on Research Tools, 1997-98; National Institutes of Health Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee, 1990-92.
Consultant to study of knowledge as global public good for International Task Force on Global Public Goods (2003-04); Study of technology transfer in nutrition for UNCTAD (2003); International trade patterns in genetically modified agriculture for FAO, 1999.
Recent invited presentations include: International drug access issues for Globalization, Justice, and Health Conference (2003); Proposal for an international science and technology treaty for ICTSD-UNCTAD (Geneva) 2003.

SELECTED BOOKS
Words over War: Mediation and Arbitration to Prevent Deadly Conflict (Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict) (co-editor), 2000
Law in Radically Different Cultures (with James Gibbs, Victor Li, and John Merryman) (Undergraduate and law school text on law of Botswana, California, China, and Egypt) (author of Egyptian section). West Publishing Co., 1983. Recipient of 1984 American Society of International Law prize.
The Politics of Peace, Stanford University Press, 1981.

SELECTED ARTICLES AND REPORTS
“Issues Posed by a World Patent System,” in International Public Goods and Transfer of Technology under a Globalized Intellectual Property Regime, (Keith Maskus and Jerome Reichman, eds) (forthcoming 2005).
“TRIPS And The Global Pharmaceutical Market,” Health Affairs 23: 146-154 (May/June 2004).
“Patents and the Transfer of Technology to Developing Countries,” in OECD, Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry, Patents, Innovation and Economic Performance Conference Proceedings, report of conference held in Paris on 28 and 29 August 2003.
“New International Arrangements in Intellectual Property and Competition Law,” in Economics, Law and Intellectual Property: Seeking Strategies for Research and Training in a Developing Field (Ove Granstrand, ed) 2003.
“Intellectual Property, Biotechnology, and International Trade: Two Examples,” in Intellectual Property: Trace, Competition, and Sustainable Development (Thomas Cottier & Petros C, Mavroidis, eds.) 3 World Trade Forum 286 (2003).
“Research-tool patents: issues for health in the developing world,” Bulletin of the World Health Organization 80: 121 (2002).
“The Economics of TRIPS: International Trade in Information-Intensive Products,” 33 George Washington Int’l Law. Rev. 473 (2001).
“Financing of Vaccines,” The Lancet 355: 1269 (2000).
“Reforming the Patent System,” Science 287: 1933 (2000).
“Adapting the Intellectual Property System to New Technologies,” in Global Dimensions of Intellectual Property Rights in Science and Technology (National Academy of Sciences,
1993).

 
   
   
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