Keywords
Capacity building, Comparative law, Corporations, Critical legal studies, Critical realism, Culture and media, E-commerce, Global governance, Globalisation, ICT, Information society, Innovation, Intellectual property rights, International law, International political economy, International relations, Knowledge, Law, Music, Music business, Policy, Political economy, Politics, Power, Science and technology studies
Research Areas
Politics and International Relations
Professor Christopher May
Professor
County South
Lancaster University
Bailrigg
Lancaster
United Kingdom
LA1 4YL
Email: Email Hidden
Tel: +44 1524 594272
Affiliations
While still interested in the law and the normative role of legislation and its justification, my ongoing research will now look at the discourse of the Rule of Law and its function as the 'common-sense' of global politics. This builds on sectoral work on capacity building and technical assistance that I conducted in relation to IPRs. However, this new research seeks to understand the inculcation of the norm in policy actors, as well as identifying the mechanisms and processes of normative reproduction. Alongside this work, I will also be looking to establish a genealogical perspective on the norm of the Rule of Law itself, stretching back to its (relatively) formal origin in the twelfth century (and possibly beyond).
PhD Supervision Interests
International Political Economy; Rule of Law
Profile
Future and on-going research
After fifteen years of researching into intellectual property rights I have decided to refocus my research. While still interested in the law and the normative role of legislation and its justification, my ongoing research will now look at the discourse of the Rule of Law and its function as the 'common-sense' of global politics. This builds on sectoral work on capacity building and technical assistance that I conducted in relation to IPRs. However, this new research seeks to understand the inculcation of the norm in policy actors, as well as identifying the mechanisms and processes of normative reproduction. Alongside this work, I will also be looking to establish a genealogical perspective on the norm of the Rule of Law itself, stretching back to its (relatively) formal origin in the twelfth century (and possibly beyond).
I have already started to publish and disseminate some early work on this subject, in parallel to finishing my publishing programme focussed on IPRs (culminating in the publication of a completely revised edition of my first monograph on IPRs). I am currently working on a book called The Rule of Law: The Common Sense of Global Poliitcs, which will be published in 2014.
Research Interests
I am currently the Faculty Associate Dean: Enterprise. I have published widely on intellectual property rights and the information society, with work translated into Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Swedish and Ukrainian. Before becoming an academic I worked in the music industry, as a bookseller and for the political pressure group Charter 88. I worked with the National Consumer Council to expand their coverage of intellectual property issues, and authored the first independent book length study of the World Intellectual Property Organisation. I was also co-editor of the International Political Economy Yearbook series for Lynne Rienner Publishers (with Nicola Phillips), and chaired the panel of judges for the IPEG Book Prize for its first three years.
Current Teaching
Due to my position as Faculty Associate Dean: Enterprose I will not be teaching undergraduate or post-graduate course until 2013/2014.
2012
The Rule of Law: Athenian Antecedents to Contemporary Debates
May, C. 1/10/2012 In: Hague Journal of the Rule of Law. 4, 2, p. 235-251, 17 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
2011
The rule of law: what is it and why is it 'constantly on people’s lips'?
May, C. 1/09/2011 In: Political Studies Review. 9, 3, p. 357-365, 9 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
Bounded Openness: The Future Political Economy of Knowledge Management
May, C. 1/08/2011 In: European Intellectual Property Review. 33, 8, p. 477-480
Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate
2010
The Corruption of the Public Interest: Intellectual Property and the Corporation as a Rights Holding "citizen".
May, C. 1/06/2010 The Challenges of Global Business Authority: Democratic Renewal, Stalemate or Decay?. Porter, T. & Ronit, K. (eds.). Albany: State Universirty of New York Press, p. 179-201 23 p.
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
Direct and indirect influence at the World Intellectual Property Organization
May, C. 1/06/2010 Business and Global Governance. Ougaard, M. & Leander, A. (eds.). London: Routledge, p. 39-56 18 p. (Routledge/Warwick Studies in Globalisation).
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
The Political Economy of Intellectual Property Rights
May, C. (ed.) 2010 Edward Elgar. 1880 p. (Elgar Research Collection).
Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Anthology
Openness in academic publication: the question of trust, authority and reliability
May, C. 1/03/2010 In: Prometheus. 28, 1, p. 91-94, 4 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate
John Ruskin's Political Economy: there is no wealth but life
May, C. 1/05/2010 In: British Journal of Politics and International Relations. 12, 2, p. 189-294, 16 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
The global political economy of intellectual property rights: the new enclosures
May, C. 2010 2nd ed. ed. London: Routledge. 180 p. (Routledge/RIPE Studies in Global Political Economy ).
Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Book
2009
Afterword
May, C. 1/06/2009 Implementing the World Intellectual Property Organisation's Development Agenda. de Beer, J. (ed.). Ottawa: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, p. 170-175 6 p. (IDRC - Studies in International Governance).
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
On the Border: biotechnology, the scope of intellectual property and the dissemination of scientific benefits
May, C. 1/06/2009 The Role of Intellectual Property Rights in Biotechnology Innovation. Castle, D. (ed.). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, p. 252-273 22 p.
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
Globalizing the logic of Openness: Open Source Software and the Global Governance of Intellectual Property
May, C. 1/06/2009 Routledge Handbook of Internet Politics. Chadwick, A. & Howard, P. N. (eds.). London: Routledge, p. 364-375 12 p. (Routledge Handbooks).
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
The pre-history and establishment of the WIPO
May, C. 1/12/2009 In: The WIPO Journal. 1, 1, p. 16-26, 11 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
2008
Intellectual Property Rights, Capacity Building and "Informational Development" in Developing Countries
May, C. 1/06/2008 Governing Global Electronic Networks: International Perspectives on Policy and Power. Drake, W. J. & Wilson III, E. J. (eds.). Cambridge (Mass.): MIT Press, p. 401-426 15 p. (Information Revolution and Global Politics).
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
The World Intellectual Property Organisation and the Development Agenda
May, C. 1/01/2008 In: Global Society. 22, 1, p. 97-113, 16 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
Opening other windows: a political economy of "openness" in a global information society
May, C. 1/01/2008 In: Review of International Studies. 34, Special Issue, p. 69-92, 24 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
The Rule of Law Beyond the State: Mapping the Origins of an Idea
May, C. 1/07/2008 In: Indian Journal of Politics and International Relations . 1, 2, p. 217-239, 23 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
2007
Information wants to be owned: Soziale Auseinandersetzungen um Inwertsetzung und freie Wissensnutzung
May, C. 1/06/2007 Wissen in Bewegung: Vielfalt und Hegemonie in der Wissensgesellschaft. Ammon, S., Heineke, C. & Selbmann, K. (eds.). Gottingen: Velbruck Wissenschaft, p. 161-180 20 p.
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
Challenging Global Norms: The State, Social Costs and Legal Action
May, C. 1/06/2007 HIV/AIDS and the Threat to National and International Security. Ostergard, R. L. (ed.). Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan, p. 171-193 23 p. (Global Issues).
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
The World Intellectual Property Organisation and the Development Agenda: (Global Insights)
May, C. 30/05/2007 In: global governance. 13, 2, p. 161-170, 10 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
No room for squares: A political economy of Blue Note records
May, C. 1/05/2007 In: Jazz Research Journal. 1, 1, p. 25-44, 19 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
A multi-Tiered Music Industry?: Intellectual property rights, open access and the audience for music
May, C. 1/10/2007 In: Journal of the Art of Record Production . 2
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
The Rule of Law and International Political Economy: Starting a conversation
May, C. 1/12/2007 In: Zeitschrift fur Rechtssoziologie. 28, 2, p. 179-189, 11 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
Digital Rights Management: The Problem of Expanding Ownership Rights
May, C. 2007 Chandos. 162 p.
Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Book
The hypocracy of forgetfulness: the contemporary significance of early innovations in intellectual property.
May, C. 1/02/2007 In: Review of International Political Economy. 14, 1, p. 1-25, 25 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
The World Intellectual Property Oranization: Resurgence and the Development Agenda.
May, C. 2007 Routledge. 134 p.
Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Book
2006
Global corporate power
May, C. (ed.) 2006 Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers. 338 p. (International Political Economy Yearbook).
Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Anthology
Escaping the trips trap: The political economy of free and open source software in Africa.
May, C. 1/03/2006 In: Political Studies. 54, 1, p. 123-146, 24 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
Intellectual Property Rights: A Critical History.
May, C. & Sell, S. 2006 Lynne Rienner Publishers. 253 p.
Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Book
Learning to love patents: capacity building, intellectual property and the (re)production of governance norms in the 'developing world'
May, C. 2006 Regulating development: evidence from Africa and Latin America. Amann, E. (ed.). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, p. 65-98 34 p.
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
The world intellectual property organization (global monitor).
May, C. 09/2006 In: New Political Economy. 11, 3, p. 435-445, 11 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
Patents, universities and the provision of social goods in the information society.
May, C. 06/2006 In: Ethical Perspectives. 13, 2, p. 289-304, 16 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
The FLOSS alternative: TRIPs non-proprietary software and development.
May, C. 12/2006 In: Knowledge, Technology and Policy. 18, 4, p. 142-163, 22 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
The denial of history: reification, intellectual property rights and the lessons of the past.
May, C. 2006 In: Capital & Class. 88, p. 33-56, 24 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
2005
Why IPRs are a global political issue.
May, C. 2005 Intellectual property rights: critical concepts in law. Vaver, D. (ed.). London: Routledge
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
AIDS, pharmaceutical patents and the African state: reorienting the global governance of intellectual property
May, C. 04/2005 The African state and the AIDS crisis. Patterson, A. (ed.). Aldershot: Ashgate, p. 195-217 23 p.
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
The inevitability of information capitalism?: between property and 'openness'.
May, C. 05/2005 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on communication and reality: digital utopia in the media: from discourse to facts. A balance. The School of Communication, University of Ramon Llull. Masip, P. & Rom, J. (eds.). Barcelona: Publicacions Blanquerna, p. 23-40 18 p.
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
Property, the right to: intellectual rights as human rights.
May, C. 2005 The essentials of human rights. Smith, R. K. M. & van den Anker, C. (eds.). London: Hodder Arnold, p. 293-295 3 p.
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
Intellectual property rights.
May, C. 2005 The politics of international trade in the twenty-first century: actors, issues and regional dynamics. Kelly, D. & Grant, W. (eds.). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 164-182 19 p.
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
Digital rights management and the global governance of intellectual property.
May, C. 2005 Digital rights management: concepts and applications. Kambhammettu, S. S. (ed.). Hyderabad, India: Le Magnus University Press, p. 33-43 11 p.
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
Concentrated industry, fragmented consumption: the global music industry in the new millennium.
May, C. 2005 Resounding international relations: on music, culture and politics. Franklin, M. I. (ed.). New York: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 29-51 23 p.
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
Between commodification and "openness": the information society and the ownership of knowledge.
May, C. 2005 In: Journal of Information, Law and Technology. 2005, 2-3
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
The academy's new electronic order? Open source journals and publishing political science.
May, C. 03/2005 In: European Political Science. 4, 1, p. 14-24, 11 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
2004
Capacity building and the (re)production of intellectual property rights
May, C. 1/06/2004 In: Third World Quarterly. 25, 5, p. 821-837, 17 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
Justifying enclosure? intellectual property and meta-technologies.
May, C. 2004 Biotechnology and communications: the meta-technologies of information. Braman, S. (ed.). New York: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
(Re)producing intellectual property norms: capacity building programmes in developing countries
May, C. 2004 Global regulation: managing crises after the imperial turn. van de Pijl, K., Assasi, L. & Wigan, D. (eds.). Basingstoke: Palgrave
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
Cosmopolitan legalism meets thin community: problems in the global governance of intellectual property.
May, C. 2004 In: Government and Opposition. 39, 3, p. 393-422, 30 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
Commodifying the ‘information age’: intellectual property rights, the state and the internet.
May, C. 09/2004 In: Script-ed. 1, 3, p. 408-419, 12 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
2003
Key thinkers for the information society
May, C. (ed.) 2003 Routledge. 208 p.
Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Anthology
The information society as mega-machine: the continuing relevance of Lewis Mumford.
May, C. 2003 Key thinkers for the information age. May, C. (ed.). London: Routledge
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
Why IPRs are a global political issue.
May, C. 01/2003 In: European Intellectual Property Review. 25, 1, p. 1-6, 6 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
Interaction between States and Citizens in the Age of the Internet: “e-Government” in the United States, Britain, and the European Union.
Chadwick, A. & May, C. 04/2003 In: Governance. 16, 2, p. 271-300, 30 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
La marchandisation a l'age de l'information: droits de propriete intellectuelle, l'Etat et internet [Commodifying the information age: intellectual property rights, the state and the internet].
May, C. 09/2003 In: Actuel Marx. 34, p. 81-97, 17 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
Digital rights management and the breakdown of social norms.
May, C. 11/2003 In: First Monday. 8, 11
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
Agandet av dolda kunskaper och fardigheter [Owning tacit knowledge].
May, C. 2003 In: Fronesis. 14-15, p. 179-188, 10 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
2002
Authority and markets: Susan Strange's writings on international political economy
May, C. & Tooze, R. 2002 Palgrave Macmillan. 294 p.
Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Anthology
The Information Society: a sceptical view
May, C. 2002 Polity Press. 205 p.
Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Book
Trouble in e-topia: knowledge as intellectual property.
May, C. 05/2002 In: Urban Studies. 39, 5-6, p. 1037-1049, 13 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
Unacceptable costs: the consequences of making knowledge property in a global society.
May, C. 04/2002 In: Global Society. 16, 2, p. 123-144, 22 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
The Venetian moment: new technologies, legal innovation and the institutional origins of intellectual property. [abridged and translated as: Venise: aux origines de la propriete intellectuelle].
May, C. 2002 In: L'economie politique. 14, 2, p. 6-20, 15 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
The Venetian moment: new technologies, legal innovation and the institutional origins of intellectual property.
May, C. 06/2002 In: Prometheus. 20, 2, p. 159-179, 21 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
The political economy of proximity: intellectual property and the global division of labour.
May, C. 11/2002 In: New Political Economy. 7, 3, p. 317-342, 26 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
Antecedents to intellectual property: the European pre-history of the ownership of knowledge.
May, C. 2002 In: History of Technology. 24, 1, p. 1-20, 20 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
2001
The global information economy and competitive advantage.
May, C. 2001 Globalization: experiences and prospects. Bunz, H. & Kuklinski, A. (eds.). Warsaw: Friedrich Ebert Foundation / Oficyna Wydawnicza "Rewasz"
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
Moments in law: contestation and settlement in the history of intellectual property.
Sell, S. & May, C. 2001 In: Review of International Political Economy. 8, 3, p. 467-500, 34 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
2000
Foundations of weightlesness: the knowledge economy, the state and economic development.
May, C. 2000 The knowledge-based economy: the global challenges of the 21st century. Kuklinski, A. & Orlowski, W. M. (eds.). 4 ed. Warszawa: Komitet Bada? Naukowych, 312 p. (Science and government series).
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
An annotated bibliography of Susan Strange's academic publications.
May, C. 2000 Strange power: shaping the parameters of international relations and international political economy. Lawton, T. C., Verdun, A. C. & Rosenau, J. N. (eds.). Aldershot: Ashgate
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
Information society, commodities and continuity: a response to Professor Frank Webster's information, capitalism and uncertainty.
May, C. 2000 In: Information, Communication and Society. 3, 1, p. 91-94, 4 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
Information society, task mobility and the end of work.
May, C. 06/2000 In: Futures. 32, 5, p. 399-416, 18 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
The information society as mega-machine: the continuing relevance of Lewis Mumford.
May, C. 2000 In: Information, Communication and Society. 3, 2, p. 241-265, 25 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
1998
Thinking, buying, selling: intellectual property rights in political economy.
May, C. 03/1998 In: New Political Economy. 3, 1, p. 59-78, 20 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
Capital, knowledge and ownership: the information society and intellectual property.
May, C. 1998 In: Information, Communication and Society. 1, 3, p. 246-269, 24 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
1997
Structured strangely: Susan Strange, structural power and international political economy.
May, C. 1997 Theorising in international relations: contemporary theorists and their critics. Chan, S. & Wiener, J. (eds.). Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
1996
Strange fruit: Susan Strange's theory of structural power in the international political economy.
May, C. 1996 In: Global Society. 10, 2, p. 167-189, 23 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
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