Susan Sell

Susan Sell, scholar of international intellectual property law, passed away late last year. I had only a very few opportunities to interact with Susan (a couple of conferences and a coffee meeting while working on Patents for Power) but I always found her to be kind, thoughtful, and generous with her time. Private Power, Public Law is an enormously important account of the TRIPS project, which created an international framework for managing IP law that (unsurprisingly) spread costs and benefits unevenly. In some ways, I think that this was an important antecedent for the Weaponizing Interdependence literature that would emerge two decades later.

In any case, Duck of Minerva has a remembrance in three parts:

• Blayne Haggart
• Joseph O’Mahoney
• Kerry Crawford