Hee-Eun Kim Bücher

In Doctors of Empire, Hoi-eun Kim recounts the story of the almost 1,200 Japanese medical students who rushed to German universities to learn cutting-edge knowledge from the world leaders in medicine, and of the dozen German physicians who were invited to Japan to transform the country's medical institutions and education.

The world increasingly faces the adverse impact of climate change. What role can intellectual property play to stimulate the necessary innovation and technology transfer? Providing an inventory of patent law, policy and information, including certain private initiatives, this thesis discusses issues at the crossroads of intellectual property and climate change, such as: compulsory licensing for climate change, patent offices’ preferential treatment policy for ‘green’ technology and TRIPS compliance, consideration of ‘greenness’ in substantive patent law, and antitrust disputes affecting green technology sectors. Just as technical progress on climate change is rooted in a open range of scientific experimentation, intellectual property must offer complementary solutions. Whether through public or private initiative, key among these, the thesis concludes, is the optimal provision of information to technology users. The author has worked at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and, in addition to degrees from Ewha Women’s University in Seoul and the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center, more recently has obtained an LL. M. in Law, Science & Technology from Stanford Law School.

Das Konzept der «Aktiven Gelassenheit» stammt von Heinrich Beck und drückt 'in nuce' dessen philosophisches Grundanliegen aus: aktiv auf Gegenwartsprobleme zuzugehen und dabei, dem tragenden und sinnstiftenden Seinsgrund rational vertrauend, akute Probleme als Chancen wechselseitiger Ergänzung und Bereicherung zu erkennen. Für die nachhaltige Resonanz dieser Haltung zeugt das von Beck initiierte internationale Forschungsprojekt «Kreativer Friede durch Begegnung der Weltkulturen». Diese Festschrift zum 70. Geburtstag von Heinrich Beck versammelt Beiträge, die sich aktiv auf die Philosophie des Jubilars einlassen, das heißt: den für ihn grundlegenden onto-triadischen Horizont erschließen, ästhetisch-gnoseologische Perspektiven eröffnen und anthropologische, ethische und interkulturelle Erläuterungen darbieten.