Introduction to The Interface of Intellectual Property Law with other Legal Disciplines

Intellectual Property norms do not exist in isolation. Their increasing societal, technological, and economic relevance, as well as the steady expansion of IP rules to new areas have proliferated the interactions with other bodies of laws that sometimes carry different, even conflicting rationales. The examples of “IP and ...” reflections could be multiplied at length and have sometimes given rise to entire subdisciplines. This brief chapter introduces the volume The Interface of Intellectual Property Law with other Legal Disciplines, in which 20 scholars from various jurisdictions around the globe explore the interactions of IP laws with other legal disciplines, with the goal of analyzing how these have modified the understanding and shape of IP laws and doctrines, or should influence the understanding of IP in the future.