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Professor Quigley Calls Trade Pact Detrimental to Poor
10/26/2015
Professor Fran Quigley writes about what the final terms of the Trans-Pacific Partnership will mean to the poor people who need access to affordable medicines in his latest column published in the Indianapolis Star.
The pact’s terms extend the scope and length of pharmaceutical patents in a way that will preserve profits for drug companies at the expense of the poor who can’t afford to pay for high-priced medicines, Professor Quigley notes in the piece published October 21. The pact covers 800 million people comprising 40 percent of the world’s population.
Professor Quigley is a clinical professor of law, teaching in the Health and Human Rights Clinic. Clinic students advocate for rights on behalf of the poor, and have a special focus on representing low-wage workers. His latest book, If We Can Win Here: The New Front Lines of the Labor Movement, was published in Spring 2015 by Cornell University Press.
