Intellectual Property Watch, February 19, 2010 by Kaitlin Mara
http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2010/02/19/conference-access-to-knowledge-human-rights-need-each-other/

It is necessary to examine what ‘human rights’ means, said Amy Kapczynski of University of California Berkeley Law School. There are at least three different ways to look at human rights: as an analytic or philosophical framework, as “t-shirt rights” or political claims that are more normative than legal, and as a set of legal structures and commitments, she said.

“Distributive justice is a much more promising approach” than rights, suggested Talha Syed, an assistant professor at the University of California Berkeley Law School, as rights are often associated with “absolutist claims of inviolable interest” which can be impractical.

BU Today.edu, April 30, 2009 by Chris Berdik
http://www.bu.edu/today/world/2009/04/28/urging-global-access-medical-breakthroughs

First-year Yale law student Amy Kapczynski, now an assistant professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, took up the cause and used the media (first the student newspaper, then the New York Times) to pressure Yale and Bristol-Myers to allow generic production of Zerit in South Africa, where the HIV infection rate was about 25 percent.