Bashar Malkawi

Bashar Malkawi is a global professor of practice in law at the University of Arizona. He received an SJD from American University's Washington College of Law, and LLM in international trade law from the University of Arizona. He has more than twenty years of experience in the private and public sectors teaching and providing legal advice. Malkawi's work has appeared in top law reviews and professional publications.

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Trade

Patent Pools and the Pandemic—A Renewed Debate

by Bashar Malkawi

In light of COVID-19 we need to revisit patent pools and their potential for pro-competitive and anticompetitive effects