Introduction 1. Pharmaceutical Intellectual Property Rights Protection and Access to Medicines in Ecuador: State Sovereignty and Transnational Advocacy Networks 2. The Recursivity of Global Lawmaking in the Struggle for an Argentine Policy on Pharmaceutical Patents 3. CAFTA, Intellectual Property and the Right to Health in Central America 4. Balancing Wealth and Health: The Case of Chile 5. Constructing and Contesting the Global Intellectual Property Legal Field: The Struggle over Patent Rights and Access to Medicines in Colombia 6. Balancing Health and Wealth: The Case of Patents and Access to Medicines in Brazil 7. The Influence of the Andean Intellectual Property Regime on Access to Medicines in Latin America 8. The Rights-Based Approach to Intellectual Property And Access To Medicine: Parameters and Pitfalls 9. Public Participation in US Special 301 Actions 10. Going Local: Downshifting in the Era of TRIPS Implementation 11. Applying Human Rights Law 12. The Missing Role of WIPO