An earlier and shorter version of this essay was initially on the University of Bristol’s Law School, Rich Law, Poor Law blog. It has been republished here with permission.
A post on the Rich Law, Poor Law blog of the Law School, University of Bristol, argues that by failing to waive the Covid vaccine patent, the Global North has failed the Global South. This argument resonates with our Rich Law, Poor Law workshops on race, in which we consider how the artificed category of ‘race’ has been used [historically and contemporarily] as the fundamental technology to abstract property out of manufactured identity traits and thus as a tool for accumulation of capital.