Jorge Esquirol, ‘GIs, Private Law, and Development’

The symposium on ‘GIs, Private Law, and Development’ was held at FIU Law on April 4-5, 2025. It brought together scholars from around the world to discuss the potential of private law reform to advance economic policy objectives. Our approach was to examine currently existing and new proposals for configuring private property, geographical indications, and contract law regimes. The overriding concern was with countries in the global South, but it certainly was not limited to them nor were the examples drawn exclusively from there. The general framework for this symposium derives from a number of contemporary scholarly approaches …

Jorge L Esquirol, GIs, Private Law, and Development (2026) 20 FIU Law Review (4) 1193.

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