"Editorial" [2015] ELECD 1075; in Drahos, Peter; Ghidini, Gustavo; Ullrich, Hanns (eds), "Kritika: Essays on Intellectual Property" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015) xiii

Book Title: Kritika: Essays on Intellectual Property

Editor(s): Drahos, Peter; Ghidini, Gustavo; Ullrich, Hanns

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781784712051

Section Title: Editorial

Number of pages: 2

Extract:

Editorial
Projects are sometimes born of serendipitous events and chance meet-
ings. So it was with Kritika. In November of 2011 Peter Drahos was
based at the European University Institute (EUI) for six months as a
Braudel Fellow in the Department of Political and Social Sciences.
Hanns Ullrich, who had been based at the EUI in the Department of Law,
was a frequent visitor to the EUI, as was Gustavo Ghidini. Ghidini and
Ullrich were already in conversation about the idea of creating a
long-running publication that would serve in the manner of, as Ullrich
was later to put it, `an island of tranquillity' for the analysis of
intellectual property. Drahos and Ghidini met at a seminar held at the
EUI and at a subsequent dinner Ghidini and Drahos discussed the merits
of the idea. At another dinner Ullrich assured Drahos that creating such a
publication would be a tranquil experience. Julie Ayling, who has Drahos
for a husband, later remarked how odd it was that Drahos had so readily
agreed to become involved given his constant complaints about the
project deadlines in his life. Drahos pleaded Ghidini and Ullrich's charm
as his defence.
In any case under Ghidini's animating influence Kritika entered a
phase of concrete planning. The details of how Kritika would make its
distinctive contribution were put in place through email conversations
and the occasional meeting.
The idea behind Kritika is to create a publication space that maximizes
the freedom of contributing authors to ...