Professor Baker has written on theories of practice-based learning, critical perspectives on legal writing and cross-cultural lawyering. He has taught and consulted in South African law schools and law school clinics since 1997, particularly on issues of legal skills, multiculturalism, human rights, and more recently HIV/AIDS and access to medicines. Professor Baker co-teaches an intensive two-week IPR and access to medicines course each July at the University of KwaZulu Natal where he is an honorary research fellow. Professor Baker is a policy analyst for Health GAP (Global Access Project) and is actively engaged in campaigns for universal access to treatment, prevention, and care for people living with HIV/AIDS, especially expanded and improved medical treatment. He has written and consulted extensively on intellectual property rights, trade, and access to medicines, including with the African Union, ASEAN, Venezuela, CARICOM, Thailand, UK DfID, the World Health Organization, the Millennium Development Goals Project, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Open Society Institute, UNDP, UNITAID, the Medicines Patent Pool, the Global Commission on HIV and the Law, and others. He works on policy issues concerning the Global Fund and the US PEPFAR Program, and how those priority disease initiatives might contribute more broadly to improving health care delivery in developing countries. Similarly, he works on issues involving human resources for health and health system strengthening and is a member of the steering committee of the Health Workforce Advocacy Initiative of the Global Health Workforce Alliance. Finally, he analyzes resource needs for global health, innovative financing mechanisms, and IMF macroeconomic policies that restrict increased government and donor spending on health and education in developing countries.
Articles
Leaked TPP investment chapter presents a grave threat to access to medicines, School of Law Faculty Publications (2012)
The leaked Trans-Pacific Partnership Investment Chapter has been analyzed extensively with respect to its dangerous...
Settlement of India/EU WTO dispute re seizures of in-transit medicines: why the proposed EU border regulation isn't good enough, School of Law Faculty Publications (2012)
European Customs officials have used fictive patent rights to justify the seizure of lawful generic...
Efficiencies in AIDS programming: the rhetoric and the realities (with David Holtzman and Jennifer Cohn), Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (JAIDS) (2011)
Finding “efficiencies” in global HIV programs is the buzzword of the hour. This term has...
ACTA - Risks of Third-Party Enforcement for Access to Medicines, School of Law Faculty Publications (2011)
In its current near-final draft form, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement [ACTA] being negotiated plurilaterally—and largely...
Learning to fish, fishing to learn: guided participation in the interpersonal ecology of practice, School of Law Faculty Publications (1999)
In Section II, I first explore supervisory sources of learning in traditional clinical terms, describing...