Cailin Morrison: 1 October 2011 - 1 July 2012

Cailin Morrison is a PhD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto, Canada. She has over 10 years experience as a legal advisor on intellectual property law and WTO trade law. She has assisted a number of developing countries in reviewing, developing and implementing WTO TRIPS compliant patent laws to further advance public health equity and effectiveness. Cailin was a legal advisor for Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) Access to Essential Medicines Campaign for 5 years, and a consultant on intellectual property law and health for UNDP. Recently, as a legal consultant for the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, she worked on a campaign to amend Canada’s Access to Medicines Regime (CAMR) in order to provide a more simplified export regime for generic medicines from Canada to developing countries.

Cailin is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law and her Research Title is Redistributing justice to the Global Poor: Tracing the Development of Compulsory Licensing Provisions on Public Health Grounds from 19th Century Britain to the WTO Research Outline: The objective of the study is to develop a normative framework in international law that seeks to redistribute justice to the global poor. The research will illustrate that by tracing the historical development of compulsory licensing in common law jurisdictions it becomes apparent that compulsory licensing on public health grounds has a rich historical lineage in international trade law.

Publications 

  • Reconsidering Global Justice at the WTO: An Ethical Call for the Permanent Exclusion of Non-Violation Complaints from the TRIPS Agreement, Chapter in book to be published by United Nations University, [forthcoming in 2011].
  • C. Morrison, R. Elliott & G.Marchidon, One-Licence Solution for a One-Hit Wonder: Civil society’s campaign to reform Canada’s Access to Medicines Regime (CAMR) and create a positive global model of using TRIPS flexibilities to export lower cost generics (2010) XVlll International AIDS Conference, Vienna, Austria (July 2010).
  • Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network Report:  (Jan 2009).
  • UNDP Report: Intellectual Property Law, Pooled Procurement and Access to Antiretroviral Therapy in the East African Community (December 2007).